Hekman Library: Psychology: Find Articles and Databases

Recommended Databases

APA PsycINFO (ProQuest)
Provided by the American Psychological Association, APA PsycINFO offers access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines including psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. When you search APA PsycINFO, you are also searching the ProQuest Psychology Database and the APA PsycARTICLES database.
Psychology Database (ProQuest)
The Psychology Database is a highly accessible resource for students, teachers, and researchers with full text from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications, and diverse sources of content including dissertations and training videos to help new students bridge theory with practice.
The database encompasses a wide range of topics from leading psychological and psychosomatic publications. In addition to clinical and social psychology, it also provides coverage of related disciplines including genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, social welfare, and more.
Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature of sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Provides access to the latest research in sociology, social work, and other social and behavioral sciences. Includes citations (and abstracts since 1974) from nearly 2,000 journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations.

Subjects include community development, demography and human biology, family and social welfare, social psychology and group interactions, welfare services, and women's studies.

Note: When searching this database, you are also searching Social Services Abstracts and Sociology Research Database.
Social Sciences Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index contains more than 3,000 across 58 social sciences disciplines, as well as selected items from the world’s leading scientific and technical journals. Approaching 10 million records, the content dates back from 1900 to present.
Divided into 24 ‘quality’ criteria and four ‘impact’ criteria, our editors select the most influential journals in their respective fields (using citation activity as the primary indicator of impact) for the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Web of Science
Web of Science (WoS) indexes leading scholarly journals, books, proceedings, and other formats. Its major subject areas include the natural and social sciences and arts and humanities, with coverage for all areas back to 1900. The heart of WoS is the "Core Collection," which contains records of articles from the highest impact journals worldwide—including open access journals.

These video tutorials teach aspects of searching, analyzing results, creating a researcher profile, and more.