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Top Counseling & Psychology Databases
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APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Why Search Here?
This is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Users can limit a search by psychology-related categories, including age group, methodology, classification codes and population groups.What's Included?
Indexes scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Journal coverage spans from the 1800s to the present.
When accessing electronic resources through GFU library from off campus, you will be prompted to enter your GFU login.
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APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
Why Search Here?
You are looking exclusively for articles published by the American Psychological Association (APA).What's Included?
Full-text, peer-reviewed articles on topics in psychology from APA-published journals, the Educational Publishing Foundation and more. Consider searching APA PsycINFO, as it includes all of these records and more.
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Psychology and Behavioral Science CollectionThis is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 600 journals.
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Psychology: A SAGE full-text collection36 full-text psychology journals from 1944 to present.
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Other Social Sciences-related Databases
The GFU library provides access to a number of databases outside APA PsycINFO that may include information on your related topics. You may also want to search the following databases through GFU Primo search interface on the library's website.
Spans the literature of health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. The database abstracts and indexes over 500 journals, from more than 16 countries.
Includes journals from the behavioral, social, health, life, and physical sciences.
Social Sciences Citation Index
Includes citations from social science related journals, dating 1994 to present.
Includes hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.