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PsycINFO and PsycArticles Psychology Databases from EBSCOhost

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PsycINFO and PsycArticles

Psychology Databases from EBSCOhost

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Contains Citations and abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

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Do you also use the PsycArticles database?

PsycINFO will also search for those articles, you do not need to use both databases.

Use only PsycArticles if you want only Journals published by the American Psychological Association.

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Keyword searching area.

Specialized search settings and limiters. (Limit by date, article type, etc…

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Use checkbox to find ideas for similar or related words and phrases

Use “drop-down” menus to choose a particular place to search (title, author, etc.). (Not required, but helpful.)

Enter most important search words here. (click add row if you have more words to search on.

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These “limiters” let you search for articles: • Published within certain dates. • About a particular group of

people (women, children, animals…)

• Scholarly Journals only. • Age groups • Type of research. • Much more…

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(More limiters!)

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Limiters

Results list…

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You may continue to limit the articles after the search, if you still have too many…

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PsycINFO Some articles in the results list will have full-text, while others will not. If no full-text, please look for that journal in our Journals A-Z list (or consult a librarian!).

Click on the article title to get more information…

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PsycINFO Article citation page

Link to the full-text article (if available). Printing, emailing,

citing help, etc.

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Journal information (name, volume & issue, date, pages

Additional information about article, including abstract (summary) of the article.

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Printing, emailing, citing help…

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“HTML” version of a full-text article. Be sure to use the print option at right for printing.

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“PDF” version of a full-text article. Be sure to use the print option at top-left for printing.

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If you put a check in the “Suggest Subject Terms” box, you will find ideas for similar/related words and phrases

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(Additional subject terms to consider.)