UCF Research Guides: Psychology Databases: Psychology

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APA PsycArticles (EBSCOhost)
APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+)

"contains approximately 5 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 2,400 periodicals in dozens of languages."
Psychological Abstracts:
* 1927-1947 Microfilm BF1.P65
* 1948-2004 print in remote storage
DSM-5 Library (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+)
Subject content includes anatomy; communication disorders; microbiology; paramedical professions; pathology; physiology; psychiatry; toxicology; dentistry; parasitology; reproductive biology; epidemiology; gene therapy; surgical and pharmaceutical intervention; nursing practice; ethical and legal issues; institutional operations; laboratory techniques and procedures; diagnosis and management; clinical research trials and experimental treatment protocols; legislation and regulation; allied health specialties; continuing education; investigational drugs and new drug uses, and some veterinary medicine.
Psychology (Gale OneFile)
"provides access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. The database offers content of interest to both researchers and general users."

Psychology Databases

General Databases

These databases cover a broad range of disciplines, but each has significant content in psychology.

Annual Reviews (1932+)
Annual Reviews publishes authoritative, analytic reviews in more than 45 focused disciplines in the sciences and social sciences.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (1637+)
"ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content."
Sage Research Methods
Science Direct (1997+)
Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)
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+)

Related Databases

Each of these databases addresses a subfield or specialization, but may not be suitable for all psychology researchers.

ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest) (1971+)
Abstracts in Social Gerontology (EBSCOhost)
CINAHL Ultimate (EBSCOhost) (1937+)
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Wiley)

"Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually."
Ergonomics Abstracts (EBSCOhost) (1985+)
ERIC + Education Research Index (1966+)
Users who are not UCF students are advised to use ERIC from DOE because no login is required.
Family Studies Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
Neurosciences Abstracts (ProQuest) (1982+)

"This database enables neuroscientists to keep abreast of major advances within the field and their implications for other medical specialties. The database covers all aspects of vertebrate and invertebrate neuroscience, emphasizing basic research but also including such devastating neural diseases as Alzheimer's."
PTSDpubs (ProQuest) (1871+)
The PILOTS bibliographic database is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. The PILOTS database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Tests & Measures

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) (1985+)
Health & Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.

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.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCOhost) (1985+)
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests In Print, produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 3,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within diverse areas. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

Videos

Counseling & Therapy In Video I (Alexander Street)
Counseling & Therapy In Video II (Alexander Street)
JoVE Unlimited
Center for Distributed Learning is providing access to *all* JoVE video content. "10,000+ videos of laboratory methods and science concepts"

Topics include:
Advanced Biology
Basic Biology
Chemistry
Clinical Skills
Engineering
Environmental Sciences
Psychology
Physics
Core: Biology
Core: Chemistry
Core: Molecular Biology
Core: Social Psychology
Lab Manual: Biology
Lab Manual: Chemistry
Nursing & Mental Health in Video (Alexander Street)
"Nursing and Mental Health in Video features over 240 videos of the most common mental health disorders nurses may encounter – whether in a primary care setting, emergency room, medical, psychiatric or other."
Video Journal of Counseling & Therapy (Alexander Street)
Sage Video Counseling & Psychotherapy Collection