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Psychology: Databases

A subject guide for Psychology from Queen Margaret University

Databases are large directories of content such as articles, images, market trend reports and scientific papers. They can be used to locate useful journal articles for your essays simply by searching within them using keywords to describe your topic. While Discover is a good place to start searching for relevant academic sources, it doesn't search all of the databases that are available through QMU (and neither does Google Scholar) so it's a good idea to find out which databases are most relevant to you (below) and how to search them effectively.

Accessing databases and the articles in them

Most databases require you to sign in using your university login.

  • If you are on campus or connected via remote access, clicking on a link within a database should take you to the database record (if it is an indexing and abstract database) or full text of the resource (if it is a full text database).
  • If you are not on campus or using remote access, you need to look for a login option that either asks for your Institutional Login, or for an option to login via Shibboleth/OpenAthens.

More information on accessing our electronic databases is available here.

Databases

Alphabetic list

Alphabetic list

Searching APA Databases

Using the APA Thesaurus When Searching PsycINFO via EBSCOhost

This video shows you how to use the index in PsychInfo to find the journal articles you need.

Literature searching videos

EBSCO databases help

Proquest databases help

ScienceDirect help

SCOPUS help

Statista help

Web of Science help