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 Psychology: 13 Databases

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Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1985-
Description: Multi-disciplinary database providing full text for 1,800+ publications (including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed journals). Indexing and abstracts provided for all 3,200+ journals in the collection. Full text information dating as far back as 1985.
Current Index to Statistics
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1974-
Description: Contains bibliographic citations to statistical books and articles in more than 1,000 journals.
Dissertation Abstracts Online
Type: Indexes & Articles
* Access to full text (PDF) of Notre Dame dissertations since 1997, restricted to users with valid Notre Dame NetIDs. Look for and click on the "Free Download" button on the search results screen.
Coverage: 1861- (Indexing); 1980- (Abstracting Dissertations); 1988- (Abstracting Theses).
Description: Provides information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with subject, title, and author access to almost all American dissertations accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Dissertations from all institutions since 1997 have 24-page previews freely available without restriction. Masters theses selectively indexed since 1962. Includes citations for thousands of Canadian dissertations and an increasing number of papers accepted in institutions abroad. Professional (e.g., M.D., LL.D.) and honorary degrees not included.
EBSCOhost  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A database of publisher-provided citations and table of contents information. Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for those journals managed through EBSCO Online.
Expanded Academic ASAP  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,000+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines (citations only for The New York Times). Full text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.
Journal Citation Reports on the Web (Science Ed. & Social Sciences Ed.)
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1999-2001
Description: Resource for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 8,400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide, showing the relationship between citing and cited journals.
LexisNexis Statistical
Type: Reference
Coverage: 1973-
Description: Provides access to statistics issued by the U.S. government (1973- ) via Congressional Information Service (CIS)' American Statistics Index, including Statistical abstract of the United States; issued by private and state government sources (1980- ) via CIS' Statistical Reference Index; and issued by international intergovernmental organizations (1983- ) via CIS' Index to International Statistics.
PapersFirst
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1993-
Description: Provides citations and indexing to papers presented at conferences worldwide, as received by the British Library Document Supply Centre since 1993.
ProceedingsFirst
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1993-
Description: Provides citations and indexing to worldwide conference proceedings, as received by the British Library Document Supply Centre since 1993; citations include listing of papers presented at those conferences.
PsycARTICLES  
Type: Indexes & Articles, eJournals
Coverage: 1987-
Description: Provides full-text access, citations and abstracts to articles from journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations via Ovid search interface. Coverage 1987- when available. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.
PsycINFO   
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1872-
Description: Provides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Social Sciences Citation Index
    (Use Web of Science)
Statistical Abstract of the United States
    (Use LexisNexis Statistical)
Statistical Universe
    (Use LexisNexis Statistical)
Web of Science  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: "... accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work."--Tutorial screen.
Users: Licensed for 8 simultaneous users; please be sure to 'logout' so others may 'login.'
Acknowledgment: Special thanks to the Graduate School and the Provost's Office for their generous support in helping the University Libraries make this acquisition possible.
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