Indexes and Databases for Psychology


Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost) Some Full Text[Off-campus Access]
A multi-disciplinary database that offers full text for more than 1,850 scholarly journals including 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. It offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.

CINAHL(EBSCOhost)Some Full Text[Off-campus Access]
Provides access to virtually all English-language nursing journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, and journals from 17 allied health disciplines; also covers consumer health, health sciences librarianship, chiropractic, and health services administration literature.

Current Research@Marywood University [Off-campus Access]
Gateway to Marywood's graduate research in the form of published dissertations and theses. You can search citations and abstracts, view 24 page previews, and download the full text of dissertations and theses.
Directory of Open Access Journals Full Text
A free Web service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. You can browse journal titles by subject; browse article titles and select the full text articles to read. Use the search field to search journals included in DOAJ. At the moment you can not search for articles, just for information about journals.
Dissertation Abstracts Online (FirstSearch)Citation  Only[Off-campus Access]
This database is primarily for doctoral students. It covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.
EBSCOhost Research Databases Some Full Text[Off-campus Access]
Provides access to various databases, including Academic Search Elite , Business Source Plus, ERIC, MLA International Bibliography, CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition, and Clinical Pharmacology. These databases can be searched individually or simultaneously. Select EBSCOhost Web to access various databases.

ERIC (EBSCOhost) Citation/Abstract Only[Off-campus Access]
Complete database of educational materials from the Educational Resources Information Center covering education literature from preschool to higher and adult education.

Expanded Academic ASAP(InfoTrac) Some Full Text[Off-campus Access]
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!
Google Scholar
Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. From off-campus sites, go to Google Scholar Preference page, and search for Marywood University. Then check the Marywood University box. You will be asked for your Marywood email login to get access to articles that are part of Marywood's collection.
Health Source: Nursing/ Academic Edition (EBSCOhost)Full Text [Off-campus Access]
Provides more than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
HighWire Press Some Full Text
Free Internet Database. Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press offers full-text access to nearly 300 highly cited journals, plus simultaneous, searchable access to all of MEDLINE. HighWire Press is the world's largest archive of free, peer-reviewed, full-text life sciences research with over 380,000 free full-text articles. The journals HighWire supports focus on science, technology, and medicine.
InfoTrac (Gale)DatabasesSome Full Text[Off-campus Access]
1997-May 2000 with access to backfile (1980-1996). Comprehensive information on: Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences. Includes Literature Resource Center and Biography Resource Center.
ISI Web of Knowledge [Off-campus Access] New
13,000 journals,23 million patents, 192,000 conference proceedings, 9,100 Web sites, 5,000 books, 2 million chemical structures, Over 100 years of backfiles, 40 million cited references added annually, 256 subject categoriesin Science, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.

JSTOR Scholarly Archive Full Text[Off-campus Access]
Full-text scholarly articles and images from more than 120 scholarly journals. Subjects Covered: African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, Statistics, General Science Collection. Note that current issues (from the past 2-5 years) are not included.

Lexis-Nexis Full Text[Off Campus Access ]
A huge amount of information available on Lexis-Nexis inludes full-text newspaper and magazine articles, business and company information, legal research, medical news and journal articles, general reference, congressional reports and publications, and a lot more.

MEDLINE Some Full Text
Free Internet Database. Created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine provides comprehensive bibliographic access to the international Medical and biomedical literature.
Pre-CINAHL (EBSCOhost)Citation  Only[Off-campus Access]
A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to researchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.
PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost) Full Text[Off-campus Access]
Contains more than 100,000 full-text articles from 59 peer-reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books.
PSYCINFO (EBSCOhost) Some Full Text[Off-campus Access]
Covers the international literature in psychology and related behavioral and social sciences including psychiatry, sociology,anthropology, education, pharmacology and linguistics.
Wiley InterSciences Some Full Text[Off-campus Access]
A partially full text database featuring over 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and databases as well as a suite of professional and management resources. Subject coverage includes business, finance and management, chemistry, computer science, earth science, education, engineering, law, life science, mathematics and statistics, psychology and physics.
Wilson Web Some Full Text[Off-campus Access]
Multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text coverage begins in 1994.
Mental Measurements Yearbook: Test Reviews Online
Produced by the BUROS Institute, it contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covernig educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.

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