Research Guides: Psychology: Find Articles

Any articles or book chapters we do not have direct access to in our databases can be requested via interlibrary loan.

Core Psychology Databases

PsycINFO
(1800 to present) APA PsycInfo offers a broad view of the behavioral and social sciences. The database delivers peer-reviewed literature from journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports, and doctoral dissertations. Updated weekly.
Web of Science
(c. 1900 to present) An interdisciplinary resource with over 20,000 scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, also navigate the full citation network.
Access is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
PubMed
Comprehensive resource containing citations (not full articles) to biomedical articles and life science journals.
Using the library provided link will provide access to articles within Davidson College subscriptions for Davidson College students/staff/faculty.

Annual Reviews
(1932 to present) Full text review and overview articles on important topics in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Includes the Annual Review of Psychology, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, and Annual Review of Neuroscience.

PsyArXiv
A free preprint service for the psychological sciences. Maintained by The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science

ProQuest Research Tools
Multidisciplinary collection of full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, and more. Also contains citations to additional materials. Search includes all of the Davidson College Library ProQuest databases.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an online library of journals, academic ebooks, images, and primary sources. Includes ArtStor licensed images.
Google Scholar
Searches many scholarly publications, including articles, books, preprints, reports, and more. Interdisciplinary. Provides some links to full text (often through the library's own subscriptions). If you find a source and can't retrieve the full text, be sure to check our Journal Finder before using interlibrary loan.
SpringerLink
eBooks and eJournals spanning science, medicine, technology, humanities and social sciences. All eBooks are DRM free (Digital Rights Management), making them accessible simultaneously by an unlimited number of users with no restrictions on download/print/copy.
Wiley Online Library
(c. 1997 to present, but varies) This database contains over 1,600 full-text journals, and 22,000+ ebooks, published by John Wiley & Sons and Blackwell Publishing multidisciplinary in scope. Access, view and download full ebooks or chapters individual chapters.
Note: Jan. 2022 we added the 22,000+ Wiley ebooks to our subscription.