Psychology Databases

PsycINFO EBSCOhost 1872-
PsycINFO covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. The database includes information from empirical studies, case studies, surveys, bibliographies, literature reviews, discussion articles, conference reports and dissertations. PsycINFO is the world's most comprehensive source for bibliographic coverage of psychology and behavioral sciences literature.

PsycARTICLES* American Psychological Association 1988-
Full-text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals, most from 1988 to the present.

PsycCRITIQUES* American Psychological Association 1995-
Each week PsycCRITIQUES releases 15 or more reviews of current books and films. In addition, the database contains book reviews previously published back to 1995.

MIT CogNet*
A brain and cognitive science database that searches selected journals, e-books, reference materials and conference proceedings.

PILOTS CSA Illumina 1871-
PILOTS, or Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress database, covers literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, this database is updated monthly and is not limited to literature on PTSD among veterans. This version of PILOTS requires a Library VPN connection if accessing off campus.

PILOTS U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 1871-
PILOTS, or Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress database, covers literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, this database is updated monthly and is not limited to literature on PTSD among veterans. This version of PILOTS is free to the public.

ScienceDirect* Elsevier 1997-
Covers the Elsevier Science journal collection of over 1,200 journals and provides full-text of approximately 735 available to UCCS in full-text format. Subjects include Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer Science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences.

Scopus Elsevier 1966-
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Scopus is an abstracts database covering the following fields: chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences (including nursing), social sciences, psychology, economics, and environmental sciences. Updated daily, Scopus covers 33 million abstracts of over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. It includes complete coverage of Medline.

Social Science Citation Index ISI Web of Knowledge 1900-
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines.

Sociological Abstracts Proquest/CSA 1952-
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. An excellent resource for any sociology related topic.

Tests, Measures, Instruments and Scales

NOTE that the actual instruments are generally NOT included but information on where to order as well as secondary material on reliability and validity is generally included.

HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) Ebscohost
Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. Identifies measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
This database combines Mental Measurements Yearbook, a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, and Tests in Print (TIP), a comprehensive bibliography that includes test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s) to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.

DSM-IV-TR® Library
The complete DSM library including the DSM-IV-TR® Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR® Handbook of Differential Diagnosis Symptom Index, and Cases from DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and Its Treatment Companion.

Additional Sources

Alcohol Studies Database
Over 80,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual materials. Created and maintained by Rutgers University.

Films on Demand Films Media Group
Contains thousands of streaming documentaries in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. For psychology related films click on the Humanities & Social Sciences subject link.

PubMed* Mid-1960's-
Developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine, provides access to bibliographic information that includes MEDLINE citations, its largest component, as well as "in process" citations for new publications, resources that are out-of-scope for Medline, and more. This database is free and available to all via the Web. Finding Full Text in PubMed.

PsychiatryOnline American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.
Includes the complete DSM Library, full-text journals published by APPI, as well as access to a book of the month.

Annual Reviews 1996-
Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 29 scientific disciplines. Relevant titles for Psychology include Clinical Psychology, Neuroscience, Psychology and Law and Social Science.

Dissertations and Theses Proquest 1861-
Indexes the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions. Abstracting of dissertations begins with 1980 and abstracting of theses begins with 1988.

SpringerLink 1997-
Access to the complete contents of more than 500 journals and 17,000 e-books, covering a wide array of subjects, including science, technology, medicine, humanities, and economics.

Selected General Databases

Academic OneFile*
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier* EBSCOhost years vary-
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

Expanded Academic Index ASAP InfoTrac 1980-
Use this database to find information on Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences. Indexes scholarly and general periodical titles.

OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)* EBSCOhost 1982-
This general database includes articles that cover a wide range of topics in education, general science, humanities, and the social sciences. Formerly known as WilsonWeb, OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition contains the full text of articles from over 2,500 publications and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications.

Sage Online Journals* Sage years vary-
A full-text, multidisciplinary database covering more than 520 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.

Wiley Interscience Journals*
Access to scholarly journal literature in the fields of Business, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Education, Engineering, Law, Life and Medical Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology.