Psychology Databases

Annual Review of Psychology
The Annual Reviews series provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in 15 disciplines. Annual Reviews saves you time by synthesizing the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in your field. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Annual Reviews publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information(R) (ISI). The following Annual Reviews are available: Annual Review of Anthropology, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Annual Review of Biochemistry, Annual Review of Biophysics, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Annual Review of Entomology, Annual Review of Genetics, Annual Review of Medicine, Annual Review of Microbiology, Annual Review of Nutrition, Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Annual Review of Physiology, Annual Review of Psychology, Annual Review of Public Health, and Annual Review of Sociology.

URL: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/psych
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. In many cases, these are multi-volume reference works previously only available in a physical form in the library. Now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Chicago State has access to more than 40 titles. Featured titles include Contemporary Black Biography, a 71 volume biographical reference source and International Directory of Company Histories, a massive 93 volume encyclopedia of business history. A current alphabetical list of all available titles can be found here.

Psychology titles included in the Gale Virtual Reference Library include

  1. The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health. 2nd ed. 2 vols. 2008.
  2. SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods. 2 vols. 2008.
URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/uiuc_csu?db=gvrl
PsycARTICLES
is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 34,000 searchable full text articles from 43 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 51 journals.

URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=pdh
PsycINFO
contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1872 to the present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. It also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.

URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=psyh
Violence and Abuse Abstracts
Violence & Abuse Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=28h

General Interest Databases

Academic Search Complete—is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for over 5,300 scholarly publications, including more than 4,400 peer-reviewed publications. Offers indexing and abstracts for 9,300 journals on nearly every area of academic study.

Gale Virtual Reference Library—is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely at all times.

JSTOR Arts and Sciences 1 (119 titles) is JSTOR’s first collection—includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, ecology, mathematics, and statistics. Arts and Sciences IV (112 titles) has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology, public policy and administration.

Newsbank—provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for nearly 500 U.S. newspapers – including the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Sun Times.


Psychology Databases