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Databases are used to locate journal, magazine, and newspaper articles about a topic. A subject's premier databases are the ones that are usually the most helpful and are often a good place to start.

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Online Tutorials for psychology Databases

Alphabetical List:

Academic Search Elite
Subject: Multidisciplinary.
Academic Search Elite
is a multidisciplinary database covering both popular and scholarly journals. This database is most useful for students in the early stages of research, because searches return a broad range of article results


Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Subject: Multidisciplinary
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a selection of freely available full-text journals in a variety of subjects. Their search page is one way to find articles that are freely available.


HighWire Press Stanford University
Subject: Multidisciplinary.
HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1054 journals and 4,343,436 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. Some articles are available in full text.


PsycArticles
Subject: Social Sciences > Psychology.
PsycArticles is a searchable set of full-text psychology journals published by the APA, going back to the late nineteenth century. All of its contents are indexed in PsycInfo, the premier psychology database. As it is full-text, one is guaranteed that the full contents of PsycArticles is available at Reeves. Search Guide


PsycINFO
Subject: Social Sciences > Psychology.
PsycINFO is the premier database to search for scholarly psychology related articles. In addition to articles relating to traditional psychology, one can locate articles on human behavior, including management, organizational change, and marketing. Useful for industrial/organizational psychological research.


PubMed Free Search
Subject: Sciences > Nursing; Biochemistry; Biology. Social Sciences > Psychology.
PubMed Free Search provides access to scholarly articles covering nursing, medical, and life science topics. This site is sponsored by the U.S. Government and searches for MEDLINE® and other life science journals.


ScienceDirect
Subject: Sciences.
ScienceDirect provides access to scholarly articles covering virtually all science and technology related fields. Contains abstracts and full-text access to articles in journals to which Moravian subscribes, dating back to 1999. Ask a librarian how to limit your search to only full text.


Sociological Abstracts
Subject: Social Sciences > Sociology.
Sociological Abstracts provides access to articles, books, chapters in books, and more in the fields of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.


Web of Knowledge
Subject: Sciences. Social Sciences.
Web of Knowledge contains the two databases: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Science Citation Index. These databases are core to science and social science research.


Wiley Interscience
Subject: Sciences. Social Sciences. Business & Industry.
Wiley Interscience provides access to scholarly articles covering virtually all science and technology related fields, business, and some social sciences. Contains abstracts and full-text access to articles in journals to which Moravian and other local colleges and universities subscribe, dating back to 1997.

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