Librarian
Katie Thonen
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Contact:
Louis J. Blume Library
1 Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, TX 78228
1 Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, TX 78228
210-436-3422
What's in this PS 4363 class guide?
This course research guide is designed to help you complete your research project.
- This Overview page lists relevant databases, top psychology journals and magazines, and more.
- Choose a Topic offers tips on developing your research topic.
- Both the PsycINFO and ERIC pages provide details on how to search for articles and find the best search terms.
- Impact Factors tells you how to find the most important journals and authors publishing on your topic.
- ILL & Texshare will help you get a source you need if it is not available at the Blume Library.
Databases
Search these databases to find articles, books, videos, and more on psychology topics.
- Discover This link opens in a new window
Blume Library's primary search tool. This robust feature helps scholars find scholarly journals and articles, books, eBooks, music, videos, government information, and more. Input the keywords of your research to generate a results list full of articles and items covering the topic. Use boolean phrases (AND, OR, NOT) and other limiters to focus a search or modify a results list. This tool searches most of the Blume Library holdings including the Library Catalog of physical items and eResources.
Learn more about this powerful resource: DISCOVER
Reach out to a Blume Librarian for research assistance: RESEARCH ASSISTANCE - PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowThis ever-expanding collection of behavioral and social science research, dissertations, and scholarly literature abstracts offer a broad view of the field. With relevance to a host of related disciplines, including neuroscience, business, nursing, law, and education. APA PsycInfo delivers the peer-reviewed content and abstracts students and researchers need and does so with remarkable precision and a dedication to scholarly and scientific excellence.
Focused on the interdisciplinary aspects of worldwide behavioral and social science research and literature, APA PsycInfo is a resource for locating scholarly research findings in psychology and related fields across a host of academic disciplines.
Features include:
Coverage dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, with extensive coverage from the 1800s to the present
Authored and edited books and book chapters
Dissertations selected from Dissertation Abstracts International (Sections A and B)
Publications from more than 50 countries
Journals published in 29 languages - ERIC (from EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. Citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles from education journals and other literature. The database includes the ERIC Thesaurus, a complete list of descriptive terms used by ERIC to index and search the database.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowComprises more than 30 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 websites.
Note: only abstracts and open-access articles are available through this resource.
Notable Psychology Journals
Check out the Journal List search to determine if the Blume Library offers access to a journal.
- Journals ListLooking for a specific journal? Use Journals List to search for the title of a journal, newspaper, or magazine and tell if the library offers online access or print access to the publication.
This is a brief list of key journals in psychology. You will find more scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in PsycINFO.
Popular Psychology Magazines
- Psychology Today (EBSCO)current issue also in popular reading section in the Learning Commons, 1st Floor, Blume Library