InfoGuides: Psychology: Journals & Databases

Last Updated: Sep 13, 2024 2:50 PM

Overview

Although the library has many databases that contain scholarly articles relevant to psychology research, there are a few core databases that provide access to the most significant journals in the field such as:

Start with these databases

APA PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO provides access to some of the most significant journals in the field. If you don't see the full-text of an article, click the yellow "More" button in the database to connect to the full-text.
APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
Both PsycArticles and PsycINFO allow you to narrow your search by fields such as age, gender, methodology, and tests and measures - look for these options on the left of your search results.
Web of Science - All Databases This link opens in a new window
Articles in social science, science and technology disciplines. RIT's subscription includes these databases: Web of Science (1975-present); Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Medline, and ISI Proceedings.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
Psychology Database This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Psychology Journals includes a wide range of journals and serves as a great complement to the sources available in PsycArticles and PsycINFO.
JoVE Behavior This link opens in a new window
JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) is a scientific video journal. Includes observational and experimental approaches that seek to understand human and animal behavior.
MEDLINE (Web of Science) This link opens in a new window
Identifies articles in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences.

Need more? Try these!

Experimental Psychology Databases
The databases listed above are the key subject-focused databases for this discipline, but there are other databases that might be useful to your research depending on your topic. Check out this link to view a more extensive list of databases with scholarly articles related to psychology, specifically experimental psychology.
School Psychology Databases
The databases listed above are the key subject-focused databases for this discipline, but there are other databases that might be useful to your research depending on your topic. Check out this link to view a more extensive list of databases with scholarly articles related to psychology, specifically school psychology.

Web of Science - All Databases This link opens in a new window
Articles in social science, science and technology disciplines. RIT's subscription includes these databases: Web of Science (1975-present); Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Medline, and ISI Proceedings.