Research Guides: Psychology: Home

Essential Scholarly Resources for Psychology

PsycInfo
Offers access to the contents of more than 2400 scholarly journals in psychology and related fields, as well as book chapters and dissertations. Coverage from 1800s to present.
PsycArticles
Features access to the full text of articles from more than 70 scholarly journals published by the American Psychological Association and related psychological organizations.
Annual Reviews
Repository of Annual Review journal issues, which contain review articles about the most significant primary research literature across more than 50 fields throughout the life, biomedical, physical, and social sciences.
ScienceDirect
Journal articles and book chapters on interdisciplinary science topics from peer-reviewed journals and eBooks. Content from 2019 to the present is available as full-text. Articles from before 2019 must be requested by Interlibrary Loan.
PTSDpubs
Provides access to worldwide literature on PTSD and other mental health consequences of traumatic events. Maintained by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' National Center for PTSD.

Testing Resources for Psychology

Many psychological testing instruments can be obtained through the PsycTests database below. Unfortunately, the library is not able to obtain any tests requested through interlibrary loan; however, a copy of many testing instruments can be obtained by reaching out to the creator(s) directly via the contact info listed in PsycTests search results.

PsycTests
An extensive collection of testing instruments from the American Psychological Association. Use the 'Full Text' checkbox to limit searches exclusively to tests for which the full contents are immediately available.

Need Something Else for Psychology?

Social Sciences Abstracts
Includes access to more than 600 journals in all areas of the social sciences. Coverage from 1983 to present.
ERIC (EBSCO)
Articles from almost 1,000 magazines and scholarly journals in education and related fields. Also includes over 300,000 ERIC documents. Coverage from 1966 to present.
Social Services Abstracts
Provides access to articles from more than 1300 journals in social work, human services and related areas, as well as book chapters and dissertations. Coverage from 1979 to present.
Social Work Abstracts
Includes access to over 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965.
Filmakers Library Online
Offers documentaries on numerous topics, such as race, gender studies, human rights, global studies, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science, psychology, arts, literature, and many others.

General Research Resources

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
A good place to start for most topics with a wide range of scholarly journals and articles, along with some newspaper and newsmagazine content.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides complete full-text coverage of over 1000 leading journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences as well as over three million licensed, high-quality images previously in Artstor.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of articles from 440 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Two million digitized entries spanning 25 different subject areas.
CQ Researcher plus Archive This link opens in a new window
Collections of original reports and analyses on issues of current interest such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

Google Scholar
Google's search engine for locating scholarly literature. Searches scholarly articles, books, and other technical or research content. Often helpful for locating specific articles when you already know the title.