Advanced Psychology Research Guide

Trying to access library resources online? Follow the instructions on the Online Access to Library Resources page to access library databases, articles, and ebooks, both on-campus and off-campus.

Annual Reviews: keep up to date with critical reviews of the most significant research of the year in Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Neuroscience, and Organizational Psychology

CINAHL Complete: includes some peer-reviewed articles for Psychology, Psychiatry, Health Psychology, Psychobiology, and Neuroscience. Useful advanced features include:

• To identify other articles in your research area:
  • References (articles cited in the research article)
• Age groups and genders studied
• List of journals in which articles for your research area have been published

ClinicalKey: Elsevier's single search product for the clinical health sciences, with medical ebooks, journals, drug monographs, videos, and images. 

DSM Online Library: Provides online access to the following volumes (off-campus access requires VPN):

• The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th edition) (DSM-5) 
• DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis 
• DSM-5 Clinical Cases 

Embase: a medical database that includes more than 16 billion validated biomedical records, focusing on drug and pharmacology and clinical medicine. 

Journal Citation Reports: evaluates journals by measuring their Impact Factors, their research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, using citation data. Search for the impact factor of a specific journal or search the JCR Social Sciences edition for a group of journals in your particular Psychology research area.

PubMed: includes full-text peer-reviewed journals for Health Psychology, Psychobiology, and Neuroscience. Useful advanced features include:

• To identify other articles in your research area:
  • Related Citations (articles in the same research area)
  • References (articles cited in the research article)

ScienceDirect: includes full-text peer-reviewed journals and ebooks for Psychobiology; Neuroscience; Clinical, Cognitive, Developmental, Experimental, and Social Psychology. Useful advanced features include:

• To identify related articles in your research area:
  • Linked Citing Articles list (articles that have since cited the research article)
  • Recommended articles (articles in the same research area)
  • Linked citation lists (articles cited in the research article)
• List of journals in which articles for your research area have been published

SpringerLink: includes full-text peer-reviewed journals and ebooks for Psychobiology; Neuroscience; Mindfulness; Clinical, Cognitive, Counseling, Health, and Social Psychology. Useful advanced features include:

• To identify related articles in your research area:
  • Linked References (articles cited in the research article)
• List of journals in which articles for your research area have been published

Web of Science: includes full-text peer-reviewed journals for Health Psychology; Psychobiology; and Neuroscience. Useful advanced features include:

• To identify related articles in your research area:
  • Linked Times Cited lists (articles that have since cited the research article)
  • Related records (articles in the same research area)
  • Linked Cited Reference lists (articles cited in the research article)
• Funding agency information
• List of journals in which articles for your research area have been published
• Calculates your H-Index (your research output and impact)

Wiley Online Library: includes full-text peer-reviewed journals and ebooks for Psychobiology; Neuroscience; Psychological Methods, Research, and Statistics; Applied, Clinical, Cognitive, Counseling, Developmental, Health, Personality, and Social Psychology

• To identify related articles in your research area:
  • Linked Cited By lists (articles that have since cited the research article)
  • Related content (articles and ebooks in the same research area)
  • Linked Cited Reference lists (articles cited in the research article)

Click here to see the full list of Mardigian Library's Psychology databases.

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