InfoGuides: Psychology: Journal Articles

Databases - Psychology focused

PsycArticles (aka APA PsycArticles)
A full-text journal collection of 120 journals by the American Psychological Association (APA) and affiliated journals. Coverage dating back to 1894.
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Subjects include:
Addiction
Applied Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Cognition and Memory
Developmental Psychology
Experimental Psychology
Gender and Sexual Orientation
Health Psychology
Methodology
Psychopharmacology
Social Psychology
Violence and Trauma
PsycExtra (aka APA PsycExtra)
A database of gray literature produced by the APA with 330,000+ records. Content includes conference presentations, newsletters, reports, fact sheets, magazines, and monographs from academic research institutes as well as military, foundations and other organizations. An ideal source to find recent research before it is published in journals.
PsychiatryOnline
A collection of full text resources from the publishing arm of the American Psychiatric Association, including the complete DSM (Diagnotic and Statistical Manuals) Library, full text for psychiatric journals, textbooks, and practice guidelines. Covers diagnosis and differential diagnosis, case vignettes, multidisciplinary treatment guidelines, and the latest research.
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You can access:
DSM-5®
DSM-5® Handbook of Differential Diagnosis
DSM-5® Clinical Cases
APP Practice Guidelines Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 7th edition
The APP Textbook of Psychiatry, 5th edition & study guide
Self-Assessment in Psychiatry
Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments
The APP Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment, 4th edition & study guide
Gabbard’s Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders, 5th edition
Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 2nd edition
Dulcan’s Textbook of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry & study guide
The APP Textbook of Psychopharmacology, 4th edition & study guide
The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, 4th edition & study guide
Helping Parents, Youth, & Teachers Understand Medications for Behavioral & Emotional Problems
What Your Patients Need to Know About Psychiatric Medications
Book of the Month - a top-selling selection from APP each month for 12 months

Four peer-reviewed journals (access includes 1997-Present):
The American Journal of Psychiatry
Psychiatric Services
Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
Psychiatric News
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection provides access to hundreds of full-text journals and offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.
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Subjects Include:
Anthropology
Emotional and behavioral characteristics
Mental processes
Observational and experimental methods
Psychiatry and psychology
PsycInfo (aka APA PsycInfo)
Start your research here. The premier database for psychology research produced by the American Psychological Association (APA). Provides over 5,000,000 peer-reviewed record from 2,400 journals in 30 languages from 50 countries dating from the 1800s to the present including book chapters, and dissertations.
Violence and Abuse Abstracts
This database covers all aspects of violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance. Contains more than 77,700 records dating from 1995 to present with sources including Child Maltreatment, Trauma and Violence & Abuse.

Databases - Broader Subjects

Depending on your research topic, you may want to go beyond psychology focused databases. Here are a few suggestions:

Journals

To find journals articles on your topic of interest, you'll want to use databases. However, knowing the titles of major psychology journals will make your research very effective. For example, if your search results in over hundreds result, knowing which journals are prominent in the field will help make your selection much easier.

Also, instead of relying solely on search to find articles, you may want to browse a few major journals regularly to keep up with what studies are newly published in psychology.

The American Psychologist
The flagship journal of the American Psychological Association (APA). Publishes current and timely high-impact papers of broad interest. Includes empirical reports, meta-analyses, and other types of scholarly reviews. Topics cover psychological science, practice, education, and policy. Contributions often address issues of national and international significance, both with regard to the profession of psychology and its relationship to society at large.
Annual Reviews of Psychology
An ideal resource to get a comprehensive research scope in a particular area of psychology such as subject of your interest. Covers significant developments in the field of psychology, including biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, cognitive processes, animal learning and behavior, human development, psychopathology, clinical and counseling psychology, social psychology, personality, environmental psychology, and community psychology.
Current Directions in Psychological Science : a journal of the American Psychological Society.
Published by the Association for Psychological Science. Publishes reviews by leading experts covering all of scientific psychology and its applications. Features a diverse mix of reports on various topics such as language, memory and cognition, development, the neural basis of behavior and emotions, various aspects of psychopathology, and theory of mind.
Psychological Review
Publishes articles that make important theoretical contributions to any area of scientific psychology, including systematic evaluation of alternative theories. (Note: Papers mainly focused on surveys of the literature, problems of method and design, or reports of empirical findings are not the journal's focus.)
Psychological science : a Journal of the American Psychological Society
The flagship journal of the Association of Psychological Science. Publishes empirical research spanning the entire spectrum of the science of psychology, in research articles, short reports, and research reports. Topics include cognitive, social, developmental, and health psychology to behavioral neuroscience and biopsychology.
Nature Reviews Psychology
The journal's aim and scope is to cover the latest advances in psychology and syntheses of research spanning all its aspects — covering all subfields of cognitive, social and clinical psychology, and including developmental aspects, methodological issues and more applied areas. The wider societal relevance of psychological science will also be featured within the journal.