Psychology: Databases

Databases

Licensed resources are available to UCSD affiliates. Be sure to connect to the VPN or a protected Wi-Fi network to access these resources.

PsycINFO
From the American Psychological Association. Provides access to scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. PsycARTICLES records are indexed in PsycINFO.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.
Psychological Experiments Online
A multimedia online resource that synthesizes psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries.

A-Z Databases: Psychology
Access the full list of psychology-specific database options from the Library's A-Z database list.

Use these databases to search for articles published in journals across all disciplines: social sciences, sciences, arts and humanities, etc.

Web of Science
Indexes over 18,000 journals in all subjects and includes the cited reference search.
Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary database with 17,800+ journals and magazines, of which 16,000+ are peer-reviewed and 8,750+ are full-text.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
Google Scholar
Use Scholar Settings-->Library Links option to setup "University of California, San Diego - Get it at UC" and if you are searching from off campus, log in to the VPN to get full access to UC San Diego subscribed article content.

Dissertations and Theses (Proquest)
Ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Where available, it provides a 24-page preview of a document. Most UC dissertations from mid-1990s forward are available for full-text PDF download.