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Best Bet Databases in Psychology

PsycINFO
Citations and abstracts for psychology journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations, 1800’s-present.
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PsycARTICLES
Sixty psychology journal from American Psychological Association and other societies, 1894-present.
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PubMed
National Library of Medicine's comprehensive database of citations to medical journal articles, with links to UMass-subscribed full text, 1966-present. Public access version.
Also known as: MEDLINE
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CogNet Library
Journal articles, books, and conference materials on the cognitive sciences, in full text, 1998-present.
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Web of Science
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Provides a search by cited reference, topic, author, and more for articles in almost all important English-language journals. Arts and Humanities covers 1975-present; Social Sciences 1956-present; and Science 1900-present.
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Additional Databases in Psychology

Academic Search Premier
A good starting point: articles from key journals in many scholarly disciplines, with some trade journals and magazines, 1975-present.
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Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities: Business & Psych
The publishing policies and guidelines of scholarly journals in economics, management, marketing, accounting, psychology, psychiatry, and related fields.
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Counseling and Therapy in Video
Videos of counseling sessions and demonstration; consultations; and lectures, presentations and interviews.
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Films On Demand
3,800 educational videos and historical newsreels. To create playlists and link to course pages, see FAQ.
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Google Scholar
Use within UMass’ IP range to access many UMass online journal subscriptions. In Scholar Preferences, you can choose to export citations to RefWorks bibliographic manager.
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International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Articles, with bibliographies, from experts on all aspects of the social sciences. Current.
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JSTOR
Core scholarly journals from a range of disciplines, dating from the earliest issue of each journal to a few years before present.
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Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts - LLBA
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Indexes the scholarly literature of linguistics and related fields from 1994 to present.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook & Tests in Print
Full-text reviews and ordering information for psychological and educational tests, 1916-present.
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PILOTS: Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress
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Citations to articles, books and papers on post traumatic stress syndromes and disorders.
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PrimateLit
Citations to journal articles and other scholarly materials on nonhuman primates, 1940-present. Click here for public access version.
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Sage Journals Online
More than 485 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine, 1999-present.
Also known as: Communication Studies: Sage Fulltext Collection
Political Science: Sage Fulltext Collection
Urban Studies & Planning: Sage Fulltext Collection
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Social Sciences Abstracts
Citations to journal articles in the social sciences, 1983-present.
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Social Sciences Citation Index
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Provides indexing and citation tracking for journals in all the social sciences, 1956-present.
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WorldCat
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The combined catalogs of most U.S. libraries. Material not owned by UMass Amherst can usually be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.
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