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Introduction

This guide is designed to help you discover the best library resources to meet your needs as you begin exploring research methods in psychology. Included here you will find resources that will help you:

organize your research
Access resources that help you develop a better understanding of cognitive psychology
identify previous research and scholarly conversation around your topic
report your research project using APA style

If you are having trouble finding resources, or you would like to talk through your research strategies, don't hesitate to schedule an appointment with me.

Finding Research

The following databases are a great place to begin your search for articles related to your research question. Depending on your question, you may want to explore other subject specific databases.

APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+)
This is the primary Psychology database. 98% of the articles included are peer-reviewed, and includes multidisciplinary perspectives from related fields. This database also lets you search by specific methods, tests, and subject groups, which is very helpful when you are trying to find similar studies to your own.
"contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages."
Psychological Abstracts:
* 1927-1947 Microfilm BF1.P65
* 1948-2004 print in remote storage
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) (1985+)
Information about behavioral measurement instruments, such as checklists, coding schemes, indexes, interview schedules, projective techniques, questionnaires, rating scales, surveys, tasks, tests, and vignettes/scenarios.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) provides information about behavioral measurement tools used across diverse professions and disciplines, including medicine, nursing, public health, psychology, social work, sociology, communication, and organizational behavior. HaPI helps researchers, students, and clinicians locate questionnaires, interviews, and other tests relevant to their investigations, theses, dissertations, and grant proposals and helps researchers to enhance the quality, reliability, and validity of their measurement techniques.
Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
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This database is especially helpful for identifying the relationships between studies.
Citation Indexes for finding articles that cite a given author or citation.
- Science Citation Index Expanded (1965+)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (1965+)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975+)

Citation Connection is now available. This includes:
- Data Citation Index (1900+)
- Derwent Innovations Index – Patents Database (1963+)
- Book Citation Index: Scholarly Books (2005+)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990+)
- Index Chemicus (IC) (1989+)
- Current Chemical Reactions (1993+)
- Current Contents Connect (1998+)
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
Indexing and full text of articles for array of scholarly and popular topics. Provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, science, cultural studies, education, and much more.

Evaluating Research

The Reviewer's Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences by Gregory R. Hancock (Editor); Ralph O. Mueller (Editor)
ISBN: 9780203861554
Publication Date: 2010-04-26
The Reviewer's Guide to Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciencesis designed for evaluators of research manuscripts and proposals in the social and behavioral sciences, and beyond. Its thirty-one uniquely structured chapters cover both traditional and emerging methods of quantitative data analysis, which neither junior nor veteran reviewers can be expected to know in detail.
Reviewing Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences by Audrey A. Trainor (Editor); Elizabeth Graue (Editor)
ISBN: 0203813324
Publication Date: 2013-03-05
This book provides a useful guide for researchers, reviewers, and consumers who are charged with judging the quality of qualitative studies. For ease of use, all methodological chapters are organized around the following elements of inquiry which reviewers tend to examine: definition, sampling, data collection, data analysis, representation, and congruency.

Finding Cognitive Science Resources

Cognitive Psychology books & videos
A link to resources related to cognitive science in the UCF Library
Cognitive Psychology Commons
Open Access Cognitive Science Journals