Shared Documents - DatabasesSubjectPsychology

Online Databases and Websites in Psychology

Databases - scholarly material, citation only or full text
E Books - use free electronic texts when you can't find the printed book
Government Resources - reliable government reports
Specialized Search Engines - gateways to subject specific material
Web Directories - subject guides to selective and carefully chosen sites on the Web
Web Resources - selected list of psychology sites freely available on the Web

Web Search in a Nutshell - getting started in library research

Subscription Databases Available Only to the WSU Community

Dictionary of Psychology - Oxford Companion to the Mind - Full text for both of these reference works are in Oxford Reference Online. Click on Subject Reference | Politics and Social Sciences.
ProQuest Psychology Journals - Coverage represents a range of psychology disciplines including behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial, personality, physiological, psychobiology, psychometrics and social psychology.
ProQuest Social Science Journals - a definitive resource for those who need access to a variety of specialized journals. The database includes over 510 titles, with more than 280 available in full text. Information on hundreds of topics including addiction studies, family studies, urban studies and international relations.
PsycINFO - Over 1.5 million records from 1887 to the present in what is considered to be the most comprehensive international database of psychology. Includes academic research and practice literature in the fields of medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, social science and organizational behavior.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection. (EBSCO Host) This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed titles. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily.
Psych Articles - from the American Psychological Association (APA). Definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals - 50 published by the APA.
MEDLINE - created by the National Library of Medicine, users can search abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals. Authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, psychiatry, the health care system, and more. We have 3 different ways to access MEDLINE:
Need help choosing between platforms? (3 pages, PDF)
- via EBSCOHost
- via Proquest
- or Free MEDLINE (Available from any Internet connection) (Pub Med Search Tips) PDF
ERIC - Citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center, and report literature. There are over 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. 107,000 full text non-journal documents (ED numbers issued 1993-2004) are now available for free. We have 3 different ways to access ERIC:
- via EBSCOHost
- via ProQuest
- or Free ERIC
Public Affairs International. Public affairs and worlds issues with coverage from 1972 to the present. An index to over 1/2 million articles, books, government documents, Internet sites and documents from more than 120 countries. Obviously useful for global issues such as affirmative action, AIDS, ethnicity, climate change, political persecution, women's rights, war and conflict, etc.

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Other Web Resources - selective list of free sites

Amoeba Web - psychology web sources of all types; a great site to start with. Vanguard University of Southern California.
Encyclopedia of Psychology - Dept. of Psychology at Jacksonville (AL) State University. Find "original information generated by respected researchers and practitioners in various fields of psychology" as well as a "hierarchical database of links to websites providing information about scientific psychology." The search engines are best used with simple terms.
Psych Central - Directory of mental health and psychology resources for professionals
PsychCrawler - sponsored by the APA; created to provide quick access to quality online content in the field
Psych Topics - APA's official site. Links to psych databases; search feature and subject tree. Follow links to related articles and book information.
Psych Web - for students and teachers of psychology. Site has received many web awards for excellence.
Research Ethics - institutional reviews, guidelines for research on humans and animals; informed consent, ethical codes of professional societies
Social Psychology Network - the largest social psychology database on the Internet. More than 13,000 links related to psychology; browse topics or use its search engine to search the site.
Top 20 Psychology -also has sites in clinical, cognitive, educational, social psychology; along with top sites in related fields of dreams, history, psychologists, and test / quizzes.

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Government Resources

Check out our Government resources page for links to factual, and authoritative sites from the federal government, and links to official home pages for all 50 states. Two useful sites for psychology are: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) with research nationwide on mental illness and mental health, including studies of the brain, behavior and mental health services. Also useful is Medline Plus Health Information from the National Library of Medicine; contains a link to the National Center for Health Statistics.

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Search Engines - Meta Sites

These are "gateway" sites: they don't have psychology information, but link you to other sites that do. Less exciting than Psychic Friends Network, but more practical.

Social Science Information Gateway - aims to provide a trusted source of selective, high quality information for researchers and students in the social sciences. Part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.
Mental Help Net - largest and most comprehensive guide on the Web; promotes mental health and wellness education and advocacy
MetaSites - from the online Encyclopedia of Psychology
Psychology WWW Virtual Library - . Sites listed on The Psychology Virtual Library are inspected and evaluated for their adequacy as information sources before they are linked. Maintained by Dialogical.net

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Web Directories

There are excellent subject directories on the web. that can point you to the best online resources in specific areas of psychology. These human guides to the Internet are a great way to find the best of the Web, and often find sites that can't be accessed by search engines. The best ones to use for scholarly material are:

IPL2 - Carefully chosen links to thousands of the best Websites for research information. You can search sections divided by Resources by Subject, Newspapers and Magazines, or Special Collections Created by the IPL2 – or simply enter your topic in the search box. Site formed by the Jan. 2010 merger of the Internet Public Library [IPL] and Librarians Internet Index [LII].
InfoMine - Virtual library of scholarly Internet resources. Features well organized access; notable for its collection of annotated and indexed links.
Academic Info - gateway to freely available academic resources on the web, with annotated entries. General links, related topics, in the news sections.

More subject directories on the web

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