Articles may offer information on one particular aspect of psychology, one breakthrough in the treatment of a mental disorder, the latest on scholarly research or studies, as well as news in the field of psychology. Articles appear in popular magazines, newspapers, and scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Be sure to follow your instructor's requirements for the type of articles you are allowed to use.
Library databases contain millions of articles from popular magazines, scholarly journals, and news sources. The following library databases are good resources for psychology-related articles and journals.
Database Search Tips
Once you select a database, conduct a search using the keywords you identified for your topic.
Tip! E-mail articles to yourself along with their citations so you don’t lose them. Remember to check computer-generated citations carefully to be sure they are correct!
Google Scholar indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. It does not always give you full access to an article, but you can use the citation to search for the full article in the library databases.
Your instructor said that you cannot use the Internet to find sources for your paper. Instead, you have to use "scholarly journals" and other academic resources from the library. So what does that mean?
Scholarly journals are published by universities, societies, or associations of specialized fields. Articles are written by scholars in that field who present the results of original research and experimentation or provide technical or professional information. They go through a peer-review evaluation process before being published. Peer-reviewed articles are reviewed by other scholars in the same field who provide feedback about the article's quality, accuracy, relevance to scholarship in the field, validity of research methodology and procedures, and more.
Ready to start searching for scholarly journal articles? You will find them in our library homepage. EBSCO and JSTOR databases. Connect to those through the Popular Databases link on the