Psychology Subject Resources
Databases:
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ProQuest Central - Psychology Journals: Our
largest, most comprehenisve database, with targeted
resources for psychology.
- Enter ProQuest Central, click the "Social Sciences" icon, and scroll to "Psychology Journals." Or, search the entire database.
- Combine terms using AND, OR and NOT EX: "diabetes and children" will return results with both terms, "diabetes or blood sugar" will return results with either term, and "diabetes not children" will get rid of anything about children.
- Clickable selectors for peer-reviewed and full-text content.
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Academic Search Elite:
A large multidisciplinary database, with many journals in
full-text
- Guided subject searching for better results
- Use left column search guides to refine your search
- Clickable boxes for peer-reviewed and full-text content
- Easily save, print, or email marked records and create citations for your bibliography.
- Use our interlibrary loan form to order articles that are not full-text.
- CINAHL Plus with Full-Text: The best nursing and allied health database available, with some coverage in psychology. Searches like the databases above.
Books:
- Use the Quest and Mobius catalogs
- Quest catalog includes CMU, Mo Valley, UCM and State Fair
- Items from Quest usually arrive in 2-3 days and are checked out for 1 month.
- MOBIUS catalog is state wide; items requested arrive in 5-7 days and check out for 3 weeks.
- Request items from off-campus using your name and student ID number.
- Specific scientific terms will not return many results, so try broader terms for your field or general topic.
Websites:
Stuck? Ask a librarian!
email:
library@centralmethodist.com or
cmdudenh@centralmethodist.com
Phone: 248-6292 or
248-6271

