LibGuides: Psychology: 85-310: Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology: Start

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Schedule a one-on-one consultation with Dr. Melanie Gainey (mgainey@andrew.cmu.edu), the librarian liaison for psychology, for in-depth help with literature searches, databases, citation management, and creating a research plan for assignments.

Other Databases

PsycINFO
1887-present. American Psychological Association's renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, it is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Database Guide. Also see definitions of methodologies.
PsycARTICLES
1894-present.The full text of nearly 80 journals from the American Psychological Association as well as its imprint, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor and errata from each journal.
PsycCRITIQUES
1956-2017. Produced by the American Psychological Association, full text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology. Also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books.
PubMed
Biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Google Scholar
"Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites." - About Google Scholar
Web of Science
A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the literature of the sciences, social sciences and the arts & humanities providing indexes and links to cited references for each article.

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Citation Management with Zotero

This guide provides some information on how to get started with gathering literature in the Web of Science database for writing a literature review. In the tabs in this guide, you will find information to help you:

Use basic library resources
Do effective literature searching in Web of Science database
Organizing literature and creating bibliographies with Zotero

Useful Database for This Class

PsychINFO
1887-present. American Psychological Association's renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, it is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.

Useful Resource for Accessing Articles

The LibKey Nomad browser extension provides one-click access to the Libraries' full text resources as you find research on the web and in databases. Find information on how to install here.

Librarian

Melanie Gainey, PhD

Librarian for Biological Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Psychology

Contact: mgainey@andrew.cmu.edu