Psychology

Best Database Choices for Psychology

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All Psychology Databases

Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH)

Links to a number of databases, journals, and Web sites focused on alcohol research and related topics.

Animal Behavior Abstracts    1982-present

Biological Abstracts    1985-present

Citations to articles, books, software, etc. in the primary areas of agriculture and the life sciences. Includes book reviews.

CogNet

Searchable collection of electronic texts, journals, and reference works for cognitive and brain sciences. The Library contains works from the MIT Press, as well as content and links to resources from other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and open source materials.

CSA Neurosciences Abstracts    1982-present

Digital Dissertations    1861-present

Full text (PDF for download) of most dissertations accepted from 1997 on, some earlier works and some master's theses. Also lists dissertations and theses accepted from 1861 on in the US and at some Canadian, British, and other European universities. Abstracts included after July, 1980.

ERIC (CSA)
ERIC (EBSCO)    1966-present

This database provides citations and abstracts for education-related journal and magazine articles. It also provides full text access to "unpublished" items such as conference papers, technical reports, some doctoral dissertations, monographs, government reports, and more from 1993- present. Citations only are provided for the "unpublished" items from 1966-1992, however, the full text is available in the ERIC microfiche collection in the UVA Education Library. Two companies, CSA and EBSCO provide access to this database. The 2 companies may update their respective versions of the database at different times, but otherwise the content is the same. The U.S. Government also provides a version of ERIC, however, it does not provide full text access to journal articles.

InfoTrac OneFile    1980-present

Large general database of articles from popular magazines and scholarly journals covering a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

JSTOR Journal Storage Project

Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present. Humanities and social science articles are also listed in Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) Full Text which has more articles from similar journals.

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts    1973-present

Medline (OVID)
Medline (EBSCO)
Medline (CSA)    1966-present

All aspects of biomedicine and allied health fields plus biological and physical sciences and humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Three companies, EBSCO,;OVID; and CSA provide access to the Medline database. The 3 companies may update their respective versions of the database at different times, but otherwise the content is the same.

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas. For each test, the database provides the name of the test author, publication information, scoring information, and the number of the Mental Measurements Yearbook in which the test was described originally. The full text for each record includes reliability and validity, an overview of the test, a description of the test materials and time needed, and one or more reviews of the test.

PsycARTICLES    1985-present

Full text of articles from 45 psychology journals. Use PsycINFO to search for specific articles.

PsycCRITIQUES    1995-present

Full text of book and film reviews in psychology.

Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection

Searchable full text of 30 psychology journals published by Sage and some associated societies.

PsycINFO    1887-present

Covers journal articles in more than 30 languages and books in English about psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education.

PubMed (National Library of Medicine )    1950s-present

Citations from MedLine and for biomedical articles from other journals form the 1950s on. UVa also provides access to the Medline database through 3 other vendors. When you access Medline from these 3 other vendors, you can access the full text of journal articles contracted by UVa. We hope to provide this same service in the near future for PubMed.

Social Services Abstracts

Search for journal articles on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Sociological Abstracts    1963-present

Sociology and related fields. All languages. 2600 scholarly journals. Includes book, book chapter, and conference paper abstracts and book reviews. Updated quarterly.

Web of Knowledge / Web of Science    1981-present

Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information. Journal Citation Reports (JCR) a tool for journal evaluation (Used to find impact factors for journals), using citation data taken from over 8,000 journals in the areas of science and technology is one of the components of this database.