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PsycINFO Database Tutorial

 

  1. Introduction

  2. How to Search

     -- video

     -- podcast

  3. How to View Results

     -- video

  4. Resources Available

  5. Accessing Full Text

  6. How to Cite

      --video

 

  7. Other Tips

  8. Getting Help


  9. PsycINFO Quiz

  


Introduction

This tutorial will provide the steps to searching and retrieving information from the PsycINFO database. Within this tutorial you will find camtasia video clips to allow you to view sample searches. Follow the steps on the left or the arrows at the bottom of each page.

Psyc Info Results ImageAccessed through Online Research Resources http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/

With more than 2 million records from 1806 to the present, PsycINFO provides citations with abstracts to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. Included is coverage of 2,000 journals plus book chapters and books. With the UIUC's version linking to PsycARTICLES , you have access to full text articles from major American Psychological Association journals, with coverage beginning in 1985 for most titles. PsycARTICLES is integrated into the PsycINFO database .

If the full text of an article is available, you will see a full text link to the right of the article record in your search results. Please note that PsycARTICLES are only a subset of the entire PsycINFO database, and that a thorough literature search should take non-PsycARTICLES sources into account.

PsycINFO is available through various database providers, but UIUC has selected the version available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).

Go on to the next step to begin seaching.

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