Research Guides: PSYC 470: Clinical Psychology Beyond the Classroom: Best Bets

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Getting Started

The databases below are just places to get started. Try some of the strategies you've employed in the past:

synonyms with "or"
database limiters (peer review, publication date. language, format, search field(s).
truncation or wildcards

Databases

APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
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PsycINFO is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
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You should start for PsycINFO, but this collection may be a good second place to search for topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Useful for topics related to clinical psychology, biopsychology, or other medical-related areas.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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Education database useful for topics related to learning or educational psychology.
ERIC- EBSCO This link opens in a new window
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Contains materials in all areas of education and at all levels from preschool through college. Provides citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Scopus is a large, multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. It also has tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
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Indexing and abstracts for over 7,000 journals. Full text of articles for over 4,000 scholarly publications, including more than 3,100 peer-reviewed publications. Multidisciplinary subject coverage, including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, and ethnic studies.

Open web search engines

Google Scholar
Google Scholar enables users to search for scholarly literature from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, repositories and universities. Use Google Scholar to find journal articles, peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, technical reports and preprints on the web.
Health On The Net
Health On The Net (HON) was created to promote the deployment of useful and reliable health information online and to enable its appropriate and efficient use. Two decades on, the HONcode is the oldest and most valued quality marker for online health information.HON is a not-for-profit international foundation, non-governmental organization and has been granted consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).

Online reference and e-book sources

SAGE Knowledge This link opens in a new window
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SAGE Knowledge is a searchable collection of thousands of selected ebooks and over 60 encyclopedias and reference works covering many subjects, including Business and management, criminal justice, education, family studies, politics, and many others, and provides unlimited, site-wide use. Terms and Conditions.
SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window
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SAGE Research Methods supports beginning and advanced researchers in every step of a research project, from writing a research question, choosing a method, gathering and analyzing data, to writing up and publishing the findings. With information on the full range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for the social and behavioral sciences, as well as many methods commonly used in the hard sciences, the book, reference, and journal content in SAGE Research Methods help researchers of all levels conduct their research.

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