Databases
Subject Guides to Journal Articles | Tests and Measurements
Databases are computerized subject guides to magazines, journals, newspapers, and other materials. For more choices than those listed below, go to the Jackson Library home page, then click on Databases.
Subject Guides to Journal Articles
PsycINFO
(EBSCO)
- Abstracts and some full text for over a thousand periodicals, book chapters and books in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry and sociology
- Large number of foreign language titles. University Libraries provides access to the core, English-language titles
- More recent articles will display the references list as well as the cited references
- 1872 +
- More info
PsycArticles (EBSCO)
- Full text of about 40 journals including all from the American Psychological Association
- Covers basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research
- All titles are indexed by PsycInfo
- 1988 + but varies by title
- More info
- Search any combination of 20+ databases from this vendor
- NB: In most cases the thesaurus and some of the other limiters will
not be available
- Citations, abstracts and some full text for several thousand English-language general periodicals and scholarly journals dealing with all subject ateas including psychology and psychiatry
- Includes unique or more in-depth full text coverage for about 20 psychology journals than the other databases
- 1980 +; dates for full text vary by title
- More info
- Mix of scholarly and popular journals from a variety of disciplines including psychology, social psychology, and educational psychology
- Includes unique or more in-depth full text coverage of about 15 psychology journals than the other databases
- 1971+; full text dates vary by title
- More info
- Our largest multi-disciplinary, full text database
- Abstracts and indexes thousands of journals, many peer-reviewed
- Covers psychology and sociology. Includes full text coverage of a some psychology journals not indexed elsewhere
- Dates of coverage vary by title but full text mainly 1990 +
- More info
Child Development and Family Studies (EBSCO)
- Covers materials relating to the growth and development of children through the age of 21
- 1927 +
- Abstracts and some full text for more than a million education journal articles (EJ) plus published and unpublished educational materials such as school system reports, conference papers, and research reports (ED)
- Useful for school psychology, behavioral issues in schools, learning skills, developmental psychology, counseling, and other related topics
- Largely English language
- EJ: some newer articles are full text; others are available using the Journal Finder link
- ED: newer items may be available in full text; older items are on microfiche. Ask for assistance at the Reference Desk
- 1966+
- More info on ERIC via EBSCO
- More info on ERIC via Institute of Education Sciences
Health
Source--Consumer Edition (EBSCO)
- Full text from a few hundred popular and scholarly periodicals and covering nutrition, exercise, mental health, medical self-care, drugs and alcohol, pop psychology, etc.
- Full text for pamphlets and books
- 1984+; full text 1990 +
- More info
- Several million citations to international journals on medicine, health care services, psychiatry, psychology, geriatrics, neuropsychology, etc.
- 1965 +; dates of coverage vary by database
- More info on PubMed
- More info on Medline Plus
- Indexes thousands of peer-reviewed science and social science journals cover-to-cover, providing complete bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references
- Citation databases contain the references cited by the authors of the journal articles they cover. You can use these cited references as search terms
- Cited reference search: find articles from journals that have cited a book or another article
- Searchable by topic, author, source title, etc.
- Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more
- Useful for identifying the important (ranked) Education journals by using Journal Citations Reports
- Includes Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index
- 1955 +
- Useful for identifying the important (ranked) social sciences and science journals including education and psychology
- Detailed statistical information (impact factor and total cites) for thousands of peer-reviewed science and social science journals
- Dates of coverage: 1997 +
- More info
Humanities and Social Science Retrospective
- Indexes core scholarly, English-language journals published between 1907 and 1984
- Includes citations to more than 1 million articles including book reviews
Tests and Measurements
Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCO)- Descriptions and reviews of English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, aptitude, intelligence, and related areas
- Does not have full text of the tests
- 1972 +
- More info
- Descriptions of over 20,000 tests and research instruments from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) Tests in Microfiche Collection and ERIC Document Reproduction Service, tests described in journal articles or book chapters, and descriptions that were created or verified after 1989 of commercially available tests
- Tests listed in the collection are NOT available from ERIC/AE; however, those from ETS may be available on microfiche in Jackson Library: microfiche LB1131 .T550
- More info
Psychology Resources
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