Subject Guides: Psychology: Databases

Psychology Databases

PsycINFO
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Requires login with UMaine account.
PsycARTICLES
Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology in areas including animal behavior, cognition, memory, neuroscience, perception, physiological psychology, psycholinguistics, psychometrics, social and personality psychology. Requires login with UMaine account.
PsycTESTS
Contains psychological assessments developed by researchers--tests, measures, scales, and surveys. Requires login with UMaine account.
Psychiatry Online -- includes DSM-5
Includes the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5/DSM-V) as well as various online books and journals published through the American Psychiatric Association. Requires login with UMaine account.

CogPrints
Hosts papers dealing with cognition archived by their authors from a variety of fields, including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, biology, philosophy, medicine, and anthropology.

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Collects and indexes a variety of scientific articles from many fields. Requires login with UMaine account.
Medline
Indexes journals containing material dealing with clinical and administrative medicine. Requires login with UMaine account.

PubMed
U.S. National Library of Medicine; affiliated with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Covers medical and some life science journals. Compiles citations; some citation sources may need to be accessed from a UMaine account.
PubMed Central
PubMed Central is an archive of biomedical and life science literature. All materials here are free and full-text; no UMaine account is required.

ScienceDirect
Offers articles and book chapters in a variety of fields within the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, including psychology. Requires login with UMaine account.
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and provides abstracts for research literature in sociology and other related disciplines in social and behavioral sciences. Requires login with UMaine account.