✓ Have a strong search strategy. Review these searching tips and tricks to learn how to craft a strong search string.
✓ Use the filters! Most databases will allow you to restrict results to a certain material type, date range, and more.
✓ Use the tools! Most databases allow you to email selected articles to yourself and/or to generate citations.
✓ Limit to peer-reviewed results only, if it's an option.
✓ Take notes on the various searches you did, and your success with each.
✓ Make sure you have ways to access selected articles at a later point, whether that means you download them to your computer, save them to your Google Drive, or keep a copy of their permalinks somewhere.
All of these are available through the same vendor, EBSCOhost, so you can choose to search through all of them at the same time. To do so, click on "Choose Databases" above the first search bar, then select all the collections that you wish to utilize.
Database that covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology.
Academic research and practice literature in psychology.
This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997.
A periodical is anything published at regular intervals. A daily newspaper. A monthly magazine. A quarterly journal. Below is a list of selected periodicals in this field. The list is not comprehensive, but it can help you get started on your quest for articles.
Want to find more academic journals? Go to our Journal Search page and enter a journal title or title keyword to retrieve relevant Journals.
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