Psychology

An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.

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PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains more than 153,000 articles from nearly 80 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.

The PsycINFO®, database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 3 million records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.

In this tutorial learn how to search for tests and measures used by studies, find the fullt text of the original test/measurement, and find a list of psychological tests and measurements.

In this tutorial learn how to use the Author Affiliation field to limit searches to particular organizations/institutions with which an author is connected.

In this tutorial learn what about the Classification Codes in PsycINFO and how to use them in searches.

In the following tutorial learn how to use the Visual Search tool.

The following link from the APA defines the various methods of investigation used in psychological research.

The following is the list of classification codes used to organize records in the PsycINFO database according to primary subject matter.