QMULibGuides: Psychology: Databases

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

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Additional information about ASSIA and how to use it is available
here
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Additional information about ProQuest Central and how to use it is available
here
Psycarticles This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Psychology Database - Proquest This link opens in a new window
Additional information about the Psychology Database and how to use it is available
here
SCOPUS This link opens in a new window
Social Science Citation Index This link opens in a new window
The Social Science Citation Index is now accessed as part of the Web of Science Core Collection.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Web of Science This link opens in a new window

Alphabetic list

Campbell collaboration library of systematic reviews This link opens in a new window
This resource is freely available on the internet. No authentication is required.
Open Grey This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PTSDpubs This link opens in a new window
Research Library - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Additional information about the ProQuest Research Library and how to use it is available
here
Social Science Research Network This link opens in a new window
Social Services Knowledge Scotland This link opens in a new window
Full access to SSKS is available to the following groups:

Staff of NHS Scotland (including contractors such as general practitioner staff, community pharmacy staff, dental surgery staff)
Undergraduate or postgraduate students working or training with NHS Scotland
Social services, public library staff and other local authority staff
Voluntary sector organisations
Other partners of NHS Scotland, (including staff in higher and further education, Scottish Government staff, nursing homes, the armed services and patient/public representatives on NHS groups)
For full details about eligibility and to register for an NHS ATHENS username and password for access please see the Knowledge Network's eligibility and registration page web page at
http://www.knowledge.scot.nhs.uk/login.aspx
Stanford encyclopaedia of philosophy This link opens in a new window
Violence and Abuse Abstracts This link opens in a new window

Alphabetic list

Criminal Justice Database - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Additional information about the Criminal Justice database and how to use it is available
here
Education Database - Proquest This link opens in a new window
Additional information about the Education database and how to use it is available
here
Consumer Health Database - Proquest This link opens in a new window
Additional information about the Consumer Health Database and how to use it is available
here
Military Database - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Additional information about the Military Database and how to use it is available
here
Psychology Database - Proquest This link opens in a new window
Additional information about the Psychology Database and how to use it is available
here
Religion Database - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Social Science Database - ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Additional information about the Social Science Database and how to use it is available
here
Social services abstracts - Proquest This link opens in a new window
Additional information about Social Services Abstracts and how to use it is available
here

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.

Database searching tips

Help with using databases

See below for support materials and tutorials for using some of the key databases.

Please contact your librarian for more help if needed.

Proquest

Proquest advanced search help
How to use advanced search in Proquest Central - includes tips for focussing your search and a link to the advanced search video.

Proquest search tips
Help with Boolean operators, truncation and wild cards, proximity operators etc.

Proquest 'My Research' help
My Research is a tool that you can use to save, manage, and organize the content and supporting materials you find and create in ProQuest. You can include documents, searches, search alerts, RSS feeds, and more in My Research. Setting up a My Research account is simple and free to all ProQuest users.

EBSCO

Video help

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science® provides researchers, administrators, faculty, and students with quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases. Authoritative, multidisciplinary content covers over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide—including open access journals—and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Recorded webinars and live training
How to best access when working remotely
Getting started with Web of Science
A large collection of short videos on how to use different aspects of WoS to help with getting useful results, organising and storing results, analytics and keeping up to date