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Omni finds articles, as well as books and other material.
For more control and in-depth searching, use an index (database) to find citations to articles on your topic. Follow the links to the full article. See the "Finding Articles" tutorial for details.
The most important database to use for finding articles in Psychology is PsycINFO. Search it first.
If your topic is related to another subject, look at the options in the "Other Useful Databases" box below this one.
Provides indexing for international literature in psychology and related disciplines, including over 1,800 professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. See the guide: Using PsycINFO Expertly.
This video walks you through the process of accessing and searching PsycINFO, then following the link to an online article. This is a demonstration of the process outlined in the Finding Articles tutorial.
Need to filter your results to "empirical studies"? Empirical articles report on a measurable (quantitative) study done by the authors.
In PsycINFO it's easy to show only empirical studies. After performing your search, look at the results screen.
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To remove this restriction, click on the "X". You'll be shown all your results again.
These databases might also be useful, depending on your topic and your research needs. They're in alphabetical order.
The premier index to journal articles in nursing and allied health. For example CINAHL searches, see Finding Article Tips in the Nursing & Health Sciences Subject Guide.
The MEDLINE database through Ovid, searchable along with other Ovid databases. MEDLINE contains a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
A database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. These journals are also included in Scholars Portal Journals and indexed in PsycINFO.
PubMed® comprises more than 36 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
730 scholarly e-journals from the publisher SAGE. They can be searched as a whole, or browsed by title or discipline.