Psychology: Find Articles
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PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)Includes journal articles, books, book chapters, reports, and dissertations on an array of subjects related to psychology including, education, business, medicine, nursing, law, social work, and animal behavior. Ability to limit by methodology (e.g. empirical, qualitative, or quantitative studies).
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Web of Science (Core Collection)Searches high impact research journals in the sciences and social sciences. Useful for those researching in decision sciences and brain & cognitive sciences. Terrific resource for seeing/finding cited references & newer articles that have cited the source article.
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences CollectionCovers emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, and observational and experimental methods. This database covers 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals.
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MEDLINE (EBSCOhost)Provides access to high quality research Covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, biomedical engineering, the health care system, and the basic biomedical sciences.
Secondary Resources
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Academic Search CompleteASC is the MU Libraries' general-purpose database. It includes material from most disciplines, so can be a good place to start if you're not sure what index to use. (However, don't rely on it exclusively for serious research in psychology.) It can be particularly helpful if you are looking for "popular science" magazine or newspaper articles.
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Cochrane LibraryA collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence, representing the highest level on which to base clinical treatment decisions. Includes Systematic Reviews, Methodology Register, Register of Controlled Trials, and more.
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ProQuest Dissertations & ThesesAbstracts of doctoral dissertations and master's theses from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities.
Effectiveness of Reviews Pyramid
There is a range in quality of evidence available in the literature, with systematic reviews being the very highest quality. As you move up the pyramid, the amount of literature decreases but its clinical relevance increases.
![Pyramid hierarchy of evidence from bottom up: background information/expert opinion; case studies; cohort studies; randomized controlled trials; critically-appraised individual articles [article synopses]; critically-appraised topics [evidence syntheses]; systematic reviews](http://lgimages.s3.amazonaws.com/data/imagemanager/35181/ebm_pyramid.gif)
Open Archives Repository
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PsyArXivProvides free Open Access Preprints of Psychology articles. Includes Neuroscience, Social and Behavioral Sciences and more.
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BioRxivProvides free Open Access Preprints of Biology including Neuroscience,
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SocArXivProvides free Open Access Preprints of social sciences resources. Includes Education, Law, Social and Behavioral Sciences and more.
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Ohio Research CommonsProvides articles, theses, conference papers, and more from participating institutions in Ohio. Includes resources from all disciplines.
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Semantic ScholarScholarly articles in medicine and computer science. Many articles are free. Others are behind paywalls.
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