University Library: Psychology: Articles

Finding Articles

Articles in newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals can be found using our library's databases. These databases are also useful for locating conference proceedings, reports, and more. The databases listed on this page are especially useful for researching psychology topics.

To see all of our databases, go to our Databases page.

Psychology Article Databases

Listed here are the top databases for finding articles on psychology topics.

PsycINFO (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts psychological literature (books, journals, articles, dissertations, etc.) from the 1800s to the present and is produced by the American Psychological Association. Scope is worldwide.
Psychology Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This database provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.
PsycArticles (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Offers full-text articles from over 90 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.
Psychology (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Find resources from all fields of psychology, including abnormal, biological, comparative, quantitative, and more.
Science Direct This link opens in a new window
Access peer-reviewed Elsevier journals in engineering, life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Social Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Access original research articles, reviews, editorials, chronologies & abstracts from more than 3,000 leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines. Cited Reference Searching allows tracking of prior research on a subject and Times Cited reveals influence of an article through links to all other articles citing the work.
CINAHL with Full Text (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database for nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and other allied health fields.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. Contains no full-text but provides link-outs to many full articles. Maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Multi-Subject Article Databases

These databases cover a wide range of subjects, including psychology.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
JSTOR Arts and Sciences This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window

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Psychology

Finding Articles

Psychology Article Databases

Multi-Subject Article Databases

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