PSYC 171: History of Psychology: Best Databases

This is the most important Psychology database. The coverage includes over 1,300 journals in 27 languages from approximately 50 countries. 1887-present.

This database contains only full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. For broader coverage of psychological literature, use PsycINFO.

Provides electronic access to thousands of scholarly and professional titles published by the American Psychological Association (APA), including recent titles in psychological and behavioral science, plus a substantial backfile of classic and historic works.

This database covers U.S. and Canadian research. The various Psychology subgroups (e.g., psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology) are all included.

This database covers the history of the world (except the United States and Canada) from 1450 forward. It provides selective indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955, as well as access to the full text of more than 316 journals and more than 138 books.

Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals from the first volume to about 5 years ago.

Indexes and provides author-written abstracts for books, book reviews, and articles published in more than 1,600 journals in philosophy and related fields. 1940-present. Updated quarterly.

Completely revised and updated in 2006, this encyclopedia of world philosophy has been a standard research tool for students of philosophy for over 50 years.

Indexes and abstracts the life sciences journal literature from 1980-present. Coverage is international, and includes biology, medical research, clinical studies, agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, genetics, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology.

Includes MedLine. The National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database. It includes such topics as microbiology, delivery of health care, nutrition, pharmacology, and environment health. 1966-present. Click here for our PubMed Quick Guide.