Centre College Library - Psychology Databases

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Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary index to periodicals that covers over 8,000 scholarly and popular periodicals, and includes full-text for more than 4,500 of these. Designed specifically for academic institutions, ASP spans most areas of study. Coverage varies, but most titles begin in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Collection of Wilson full-text databases, including Social Sciences Full Text, a good resource for finding scholarly undergraduate-level journal articles. Indexing begins in 1983; full-text of selected articles in 1995.
PsycINFO: The primary index to articles in psychology. PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. Coverage is from the 1887 to the present.
NOTE: Includes links to full-text articles in other databases.
Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection: The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection has nearly 470 online full-text titles, most of which are peer-reviewed.
ScienceDirect: Elsevier is the world's leading social, physical and health science information, producing 25% of the world's scientific journal information. The ScienceDirect College Edition collection provides access to more than 1,900 multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journals, including leading titles like Behaviour Research and Therapy and Journal of Adolescence.

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Annual Reviews: Contains critical reviews of significant primary literature. Published yearly, this is the online, full-text version of the printed Annual Review of ... series.
JSTOR: Full-text back files of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Note: coverage varies by title, but the most recent 2-5 years is not available.
Medline Plus: Useful overviews of psychological disorders written for the non-specialist, plus links to additional resources. Hosted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. The medical encyclopedia on this site is particularly helpful for non-specialists, providing overviews of psychological disorders and their treatment.
PILOTS Database: Citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. Includes links to full-text in other sources.
Project Muse: Full text from nearly 250 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage varies by title.

Last updated September 3, 2008