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Databases for Psychology

April 8, 2026 • 11:56 am

Psychology – Best Bets

  • Mental Measurements Yearbook
    Comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. More info
  • Psychology Database (ProQuest)
    Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 1,000 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text, encompassing a wide range of psychology-related topics. More info
  • PsycINFO
    Contains over 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. More info
  • PsycTESTS
    Ready-to-use tests and measures featuring instruments that are relevant to psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, and social work. More info

Psychology – Also Useful

  • Annual Reviews
    Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field. More info
  • Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)‎
    ASSIA is designed to serve the information needs of the caring professions, including practitioners, researchers, and students in healthcare, social services, education, and related areas. More info
  • Counseling and Therapy in Video
    Provides access to actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions, and scripted sessions designed by counseling professionals to illustrate common issues and scenarios. More info
  • Credo Reference
    Provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. More info
  • DSM Library
    Provides access to the DSM-5 which is used by health professionals, social workers, and forensic and legal specialists to diagnose and classify mental disorders. More info
  • ProQuest Central
    Multidisplinary database with access to nearly 20,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers. More info
  • PsycArticles
    More than 150,000 full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. More info
  • PubMed (includes MEDLINE)
    This resource is freely available from the Internet. The Linkout feature, which is marked with an icon, provides access to the full-text of journals subscribed to by Appalachian State University Libraries. Citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. More info
  • Sage Knowledge
    Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects. More info
  • ScienceDirect
    Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection, and indexing for 1,300 more. More info
  • Scopus
    Replaces Web of Science. An abstract and citation database focused on social, physical, life, and health sciences, with over 94 million records. More info
  • Social Science Database (ProQuest)
    Provides access to over 1,000 scholarly journal titles, with around 700 available in full text, across a wide range of social science disciplines. More info
  • Sociological Abstracts
    Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines, providing abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications. More info
  • WorldCat (FirstSearch)
    Lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries using precision search features, view detailed results, and link to University Libraries' holdings. More info

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Dusty Ross
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