Psychology subject resources

These collections provide instant access to scholarly research, journal articles and book reviews. They may be accessed 24/7 and each collection has its own help and guidance on the home page.

Key collections

• PsycARTICLES Database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association.
• PsycINFO Bibliographic database from the American Psychological Association (APA) containing records of peer-reviewed journals, books and dissertations. Updated weekly.

Combined studies

Where your studies or research combine with other disciplines, you may find the following subject pages useful.

• Criminology – for Criminology & Psychology
• Health – for Health Psychology
• Teacher Training and Education – for Educational Psychology
• Sport and Physical Activity – for Sport and Exercise Psychology

Additional collections

• Box of Broadcasts is an on-demand TV and radio service for education. The academically focused system enables you to record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels, and search an extensive archive. 
• ScienceDirect is a collection of journal articles and book chapters covering life, physical, medical, technical and social sciences. 
• Wiley Online Library is a multidisciplinary collection of 1600 journals, covering the life, health and physical sciences. 

Research tools

• SAGE Research Methods is a database which supports research at all levels by providing material to guide users through each step of the research process. From writing your research question and choosing a method, to analysing data, writing up and publishing the findings. Resources include a methods map, books, reference works, journal articles, podcasts and instructional videos from world-leading academics. With information on qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods, Sage Research Methods is the ideal tool to support you through your research in social sciences. 
• Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database, containing 24,600 journals from 5,000 publishers. It is excellent for literature reviews or for finding out what has been published in your area as it can locate high quality journal articles, book chapters and more, for any subject.

Newspapers can be a useful way of keeping up to date with current affairs or recent events. Newspaper archives usually contain issues which are less recent and which are useful for finding articles of a more historical interest.

• Daily Mail Historical Archive 1896-2004 contains news stories and images that capture 20^th century culture and society. Offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue.
• Gale OneFile: News contains articles from over 2300 newspapers from around the world. These include major British newspapers, as well as US and Australian titles. It also has thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
• Lexis+ contains over 650 regional and national UK newspapers from 1982 to the present. It is possible to limit your search to either national or regional titles, or you can search the whole of the newspaper database. Enter Lexis and click content and select Newspapers.
• Times Digital Archive contains every issue of The Times from 1785 to 2019. You can search by keyword or for a particular issue and each story appears as it looks in the original copy of the newspaper.

Professional bodies are the societies and associations that promote a profession and the people working within them. Many provide useful information on their website along with regular news.

• Amedeo is a service which can send you a weekly email listing new scientific publications in your chosen field.
• American Psychological Association is the main scientific and professional organisation for psychologists in the United States.
• Association of Educational Psychologists is the professional association for educational psychologists in the UK.
• The British Psychological Society is the representative body of psychology and psychologists in the UK.
• CogPrints is an archive for papers in psychology, neuroscience and linguistics.
• NICE Evidence Search provides access to evidence in the fields of health, social care and public health.
• PsychCentral is a website providing mental health information.
• Social Psychology Network contains information on psychological research and teaching.

Referencing the sources of information you use is an essential part of academic writing and your research, it’s important to get it right. Referencing is the acknowledgment of all the sources that have been cited in your assignment, whether you have quoted directly or paraphrased.

In psychology the APA referencing style is used.