Overview - PS4363 - Advanced Research Methods for Psychology - Blume Library at St. Mary's University

What's in this PS4363 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.

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Search these databases to find articles, books, videos, and more on psychology topics.

Discover
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Meta-search to find articles, books, eBooks, music, videos, government information, and more. Includes multiple library databases and the Library Catalog.
PsycINFO
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Renowned psychology database of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports. Focus on psychology and related disciplines. Coverage from 1800s-present. Published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
ERIC (from EBSCO)
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Key education database. 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
PubMed comprises more than 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.

Check out the Journal List search to determine if the Blume Library offers access to a journal.

Journals List
Looking 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.