Research Guides: Psychology Graduate Student Guide: Best Bets for Psychology Research

Best Bets for Psychology Research

Below are some useful tools and tips for getting started with your graduate research in Psychology.

Summon: Searches the entire UC Libraries collection. Useful for finding books, articles, periodicals, dissertations, media, and more! Also helpful for searching for a known item (put the entire title in quotation marks and search!)

Article Databases: PsycINFO and Scopus are helpful databases for finding articles. There is also a link to other Psychology literature databases.

Books: Search for the UC Library Catalog for print and ebooks. OhioLINK allows you to search and request items not owned by UC Libraries, but that we can access through our consortium membership.

Start Here: Summon

Finding Articles

PsycINFO
PsycINFO, produced by the American Psychological Association, is a collection of electronically stored bibliographic references--most with abstracts or content summaries. It contains citations that PsycINFO has created in electronic form. Although the references themselves are all written in English, the covered literature includes material published in over 45 countries and written in 30 languages.Coverage: 1872-present
Scopus (Elsevier)
Indexing¸ abstracts¸ and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature. Scopus covers 14¸000 titles across 4¸000 publishers¸ providing access to over 25 million abstracts going back to 1966 and 5 years of cited reference back years¸ building up to 10 years by the end of 2005. Coverage: 1966 - present

Psychology Databases
The databases listed in this group provide a substantial volume of literature relevant to the field of psychology.
UC Libraries A to Z List of Databases
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Record date: 8/2/2017

Finding Books

UC Library Catalog

Search the UC Library Catalog to find Books, Videos, Music Scores , and more....

OhioLINK

Search and request items not owned by UC Libraries