WNCLibrary: Psychology: Databases &amp; Journals

Finding Articles

For guidance on finding appropriate databases, journals, and articles, we have these guides and tutorials:

For information regarding expanding or limiting your search results, please see these guides:

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
provides full text coverage for nearly 4,700 scholarly publications, including more than 4,000 peer-reviewed full-text journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
provides full text for more than 770 nursing and allied health journals and indexing of more than 5,000 journals. This database contains over 5.3 million records, as well as evidence-based care sheets, clinical innovations, drug records, and clinical trials. It also includes over 100 interactive continuing education units (CEUs) on patient care and drug administration.
MasterFILE Complete (Ebscohost) This link opens in a new window
provides indexing and abstracting to approximately 4,600 journals and general-interest magazines - more than 2,300 in full-text. It also includes hundreds of full-text books, thousands of biographies, historical documents and photos, maps and flags.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
a subset of PubMed, provides 5 million free, full-text articles from government sponsored research grants published in life sciences journals. Produced by the National Library of Medicine.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
includes the full-text content from over 850 encyclopedias and other reference books covering a broad range of subjects. There are over 3 million articles and 200,000+ images (art, diagrams, maps and photos).
Virtual Reference Library (Gale) This link opens in a new window
includes the full-text content from over 200 special topic encyclopedias and other reference books.

Psych
Psych open access journal of psychology, is an international, peer-reviewed, published quarterly online by MDPI.
Social Sciences
Social Sciences is an international, open access journal with rapid peer-review, which publishes works from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, geography, history, law, linguistics, political science, psychology, social policy, social work, sociology and so on. Social Sciences is published monthly online by MDPI.
Behavioral Sciences
Behavioral Sciences is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, behavioral biology and behavioral genetics published monthly online by MDPI.
Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
An official journal of the European Health Psychology Society, publishing international open access research on psychosocial, behavioral and biomedical health.
Cogent Psychology
Cogent Psychology is an Open Access journal publishing original research, reviews and replications that span the full spectrum of psychological inquiry.

These tutorials from Niche Academy provide an excellent overview of how to use the various databases you have access to through the library.