These databases will help you find journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, books, book chapters, and more. There are also pages of other specialized topic information on psychology and counseling research on the Internet including personality tests and resources. Try this online tutorial in library research for Psychology & Counseling.
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PsycINFO
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- Searchable abstracts and some fulltext for all aspects of psychology; the premier database for psychology and counseling.
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PsycARTICLES
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- From the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 45,000 articles from 57 journals - 46 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present.
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
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- This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.
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Academic Search Complete
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- Multidisciplinary database with approximately 3,000 fulltext journals and indexing and abstracting for 4,000
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Alt HealthWatch
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- This alternative health database provides full text for 180 publications in the collection, including full text for many peer-reviewed journals. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by complementary and alternative medicine dating back to 1990
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Annual Review of Psychology
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- Full text available 1995- and searchable tables of contents for 1984-. Full text access is available here for Annual Review of Biochemistry, Annual Review of Immunology, Annual Review of Medicine, and Annual Review of Nutrition.
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Consumer Health Complete
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- Designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.
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Dissertation Abstracts
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- Abstracts only are available here though many theses and dissertations can be downloaded in fulltext for a fee. This database is also known as Proquest Dissertations and Theses. It provides authorized St. Mary's users with free downloads of the full text of recent dissertations written by graduates of St. Mary's University. Graduating students in the doctoral program ONLY must upload an electronic copy of their dissertations to Proquest after graduate school approval and before the graduation deadline. Do not upload theses for Masters' programs.
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ERIC (from Ebsco)
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ERIC (free access)
- A bibliography of educational materials available since 1966 from the journals Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Designed for teachers, students, administrators, researchers and others interested in the field of education. The database includes the ERIC thesaurus, a complete list of descriptive terms used by ERIC to index and search the database. Fulltext of over 2,200 digests is available, including references for even more information. Citations, abstracts, and some fulltext from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
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- Search multiple encyclopedias and other reference works with a single search
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Government Publications Catalog (Marcive)
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- Searchable database of publications (1976-) of the U.S. government. Also freely available on the Internet from the Government Printing Office with items from 1976- indexed.
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Health and Wellness Resource Center
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- Includes the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, the Medical and Health Information Directory, the Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary, USPDI vol.2: Advice for the Patient, PDR Family Guide to Natural Medicines and Healing Therapies, the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Health, and current health-related news.
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Health Reference Center Academic
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- "Provides integrates access to the indexing, abstracting, full text, and images of nursing, allied health, and medical journals, consumer health magazines; pamphlets; newspaper articles; topical overviews; and reference books. Health Reference Center Academic includes the full-text of approximately 200 journals including JAMA, JAAPA, The Lancet, and British Medical Journal. In addtion to the core journals, HRCA provides selected articles from more than 1500 additional journals. Core reference content include Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary; Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine; The Consumer Health Information Source Book; USP-ID Ver 2.3; Advise for the Patient, Drug Information in Lay Language; Everything you Need to Know about Medical Tests;The Complete Directory for People with Chronic Illness; The Columbia University Complete Home Medical Guide; PDR Family Guide to Nutrition and Health, and Clinical Reference Systems Ver. 2.5."
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Health Source: Consumer Edition
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- A rich collection of consumer health information, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Features searchable full text for nearly 150 journals.
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Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
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- Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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JSTOR
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- A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text
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Medline with MESH (Ebsco)
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- Authoritative medical information from such fields as medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and preclinical sciences; includes Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) index with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities
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Medline: NLM Gateway (National Library of Medicine)
- Group of searchable databases from the National Library of Medicine: MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, HSR Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus, and DIRLINE.
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Medline: PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
- A different search interface to the Medline database. The PubMed search interface includes links to several dozen full text journals.
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MedlinePlus
- Full-text quality healthcare information from the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health organized by topic. This does not search the original Medline database as linked above; it contains supplementary fulltext information.
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Project Muse
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- Searchable access to a selection of prestigious journals in the humanities and social sciences. The library's subscription includes fulltext access to a subset of the full collection.
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Proquest Dissertations and Theses
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- With more than 1.6 million entries, this database is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses from universities in North America from 1861 to the present. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include abstracts written by the author. Proquest makes the fulltext of most dissertations and theses available for a fee. This database is also known as Dissertation Abstracts. Graduating students in the doctoral program ONLY must upload an electronic copy of their dissertations to Proquest after graduate school approval and before the graduation deadline. Do not upload theses for Masters' programs.
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PsychCrawler (American Psychological Association)
- A searchable database of tables of contents from recent years of psychology journals and books with some full text available.
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ScienceDirect
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- The full text of 1400 journals in the physical sciences and engineering, life sciences and medicine, social sciences and psychology/counseling.
More Psychology and Counseling Databases
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Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database
- From the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, this database is updated monthly and contains about 100,000 records. Included are abstracts and citations to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and book chapters.
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American Psychological Association Journals
- Search or browse the tables of contents of the most recent year and the abstracts of the current issues of APA journals.
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Child Abuse, Child Welfare, and Adoption
- Indexes and abstracts of journal articles and some full text working papers searchable here. Free with registration.
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Classics in the History of Psychology
- Full text of classic works in psychology, both books and articles, available online: Freud, Binet, Terman, James, Skinner, Watson, Yerkes, etc. Browse by author, subject, or date of publication.
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Encyclopedia of Psychology
- Eight topic areas guide users to over 2,000 links selected to represent the best available websites in psychology.
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ETS TestLink
- An extensive library of 25,000 tests and other measurement devices from the early 1900s to the present
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Highwire Press: Free Online Full-text Articles
- An archive of free online abstracts and full-text articles from respected science journals
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Internet Mental Health
- Common mental disorders and psychiatric drugs described. Online diagnosis of common mental disorders.
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Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (American Psychoanalytic Association)
- A searchable index of almost 30,000 journal articles, books, and book reviews in psychoanalysis from 1920-present.
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Jung Page
- Online resources on Jungian psychology
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Medscape
- Includes several different searchable full-text databases
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O*NET OnLine
- "The O*NET database includes information on skills, abilities, knowledges, work activities, and interests associated with occupations. This information can be used to facilitate career exploration, vocational counseling, and a variety of human resources functions, such as developing job orders and position descriptions and aligning training with current workplace needs. Information in O*NET is available for over 950 occupations. Each occupational title and code is based on the most current version (1999) of the Standard Occupational Classification system."
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Patient Education Materials (National Institute of Mental Health)
- Full text discussions of symptoms, research, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as information on how and where to find help
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RxList - The Internet Drug Index
- Search for information on various psychoactive and other drugs
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Sparknotes
- Free study guides and psychological concepts explained: development, personality, abnormal psychology, cognitive psychology, attention, peception, memory, language, and neuropsychology
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Test Reviews Online
- Search for citations to reviews of educational and psychological tests and measures that The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements and ProEd have included in their directories. Mental Measurements Yearbook, Test in Print, and Test Critiques are located in the Blume Library Reference section.
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Theory into Practice Database
- Summaries and bibliographies on more than 50 major learning theories.
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Writing and Presenting your Thesis or Dissertation
- An online guide to creating and defending a thesis or dissertation.
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