LibGuides: Psychology Resources Guide: Finding Journal Articles

Finding Articles in Databases

If you need help with how to construct a search and search for literature in databases, the following videos and tutorials are a good place to start:

Recommended Psychology Databases

Although many databases contain Psychology articles, the following databases are great places to begin your research.

PsycINFO including PsycARTICLES
Produced by the APA, PsycINFO is the premier resource for finding psychology and related disciplines, including psychology articles from sociology, linguistics, education, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, anthropology, and more.
PubMed (Medline)
PubMed/MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences. Particularly useful for psychological research in health psychology, biopsychology, and neuroscience.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCO)
1937 -
CINAHL is the online version of the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. It provides indexing for over 3,000 nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals. Additional items indexed include nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, and book chapters. Evidence Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons are also included.

Additional Databases for Psychology Research

At times, specialized indexes or interdisciplinary databases will be valuable for psychological research. To locate a database not listed here, browse the MSU Libraries Database List for a complete record of subject specific databases. Additionally, consider asking for assistance if you don't get the results you expect from a search.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global
Comprehensive collection of fulltext dissertations and theses since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for earlier periods. Includes MSU dissertations and theses.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
This full-text database is an essential tool for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students, providing extensive coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines.
Gale OneFile: Psychology
Provide access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology— abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology. Researchers, psychologists, counselors, and behavioral scientists will discover relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in this comprehensive collection.
Psychological Experiments Online
Psychological Experiments Online is a multimedia online resource that synthesizes the most important psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries, fostering deeper levels of understanding for students and scholars alike. The collection pairs 75 hours of audio and video recordings of the original experiments (when existent) with 40,000 pages of primary-source documents.
Oxford Clinical Psychology
Oxford Clinical Psychology provides full-text access to over 300 titles in Oxford's global clinical psychology publishing program. It covers a broad range of specialty areas, disorders, and treatment modalities.
PsychiatryOnline
From the American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (APPI). Includes the DSM® Library, APPI journals with full text. APPI ebooks, treatment guidelines and patient info. Great for clinicians and students.
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts: Volume I
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts: Volume I Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. The database contains more than 2,000 session transcripts, 44,000 pages of client narratives, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material.