Databases for Psychology

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Comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
Psychology Database provides abstracts and indexing for more than 1,000 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association, contains over 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations
PsycTESTS is a resource for ready-to-use tests and measures featuring instruments that are relevant to psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, and social work

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Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field.
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.
Provides access to actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions, and scripted sessions designed by counseling professionals to illustrate common issues and scenarios.
Provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers.
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.
Multidisplinary database with access to nearly 20,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology
Citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences
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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 the Appalachian State University Library.
Sage Knowledge provides full text access to more than 200 social science encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks
Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection, indexing for 1,300 more
Social Science Database provides access to over 1,000 scholarly journal titles, with around 700 available in full text
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines
Provides indexing and citation analysis for over 20,000 journals from a wide range of disciplines
Over 50 million library catalog records from libraries throughout the world