Periodical Databases, many including full-text

This guide provides a listing of selected electronic resources for psychology that are provided by the University of Chicago Library. Unless otherwise noted, access to these resources is limited to members of the University of Chicago community.
Contents: Primary for Psychology | General and Interdisciplinary Indexes | Additional Library Resources

Primary for Psychology:

PsycINFO via APA PsycNET: PsycINFO corresponds to the American Psychological Association's Psychological Abstracts. It contains non-evaluative summaries of selected journal articles, technical reports, dissertations, and chapters and books in psychology and related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics. Coverage is international in scope. The database includes references to materials from 1887 to the present. More information about this database is available.

General and Multi-Subject Indexes

Academic Search Premier: This multi-disciplinary database contains full text for 3,350 scholarly publications as well as indexing and abstracting for many additional titles. It includes PDF images for the great majority of journals; many of these PDF's are native (searchable) or scanned-in-color. This collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, etc.
Ageline--via CSA: AgeLine, produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), is an indexing service for the field of social gerontology--the study of aging in social, psychological, health-related, and economic contexts. The database covers materials publishes from 1978 forward. References are included to books, journal articles, videos, dissertations, and other materials.
American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900 --via ProQuest Historical Collections: Based on the contents of a microform collection of the same title, this digitization project is expected to be completed by early 2006. As of March 2005, over 1,240 individual titles have been digitized and are available in the database and 270 remain to be completed.
Anthropology Plus via Eureka: Includes the complete contents of the print Anthropological literature (Z5112.A53 Regenstein RR2) from Harvard University's Tozzer Library and Anthropolical Index from the Royal Anthropological Institute of the UK. Describes articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies, in works published in English and other European languages from the late 19th century to the present. For education, the database is particularly useful for historical and contemporary research on customs and practices in countries and societies around the world.
ArticleFirst: This FirstSearch database indexes periodical articles from 1990 forward for thousands of titles. The records include minimal abstracts and few subject headings.
Biological Abstracts: Biological Abstracts indexes articles from over 4,000 serials each year that cover topics in every life sciences discipline. The database also links to 30,000+ selected Species Profiles available at Government, University & NGO websites. An online thesaurus is available to assist in formulating searches. The database itself does not include full-text but there are many links to full-text articles.
Child Development and Adolescent Studies -- via NISC Biblioline: Includes references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are journal articles, book reviews, as well as of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations.
Contemporary Women's Issues-- via FirstSearch: Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets. Includes links to full-text articles for many articles. Disciplines covered include sociology, psychology, health, education, human rights and more. Coverage dates back to 1992 and provides access to information on women in more than 150 countries.
Current Contents--via ISI Web of Knowledge: Lists tables of contents for thousands of journals with bibliographic data for each article. Abstracts are also available. Searchable by journal title, article title, authors, keywords, and corporate source.
Dissertation Abstracts | now titled ProQuest Digital Dissertations: The indexing goes back to 1861. University of Chicago has full-text access to dissertations included in the database since 1997.
FRANCIS (International Humanities and Social Sciences)--via RLIN's Eureka: FRANCIS covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%). FRANCIS is strong in religion, the history of art, psychology, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. FRANCIS represents a wide range of materials, including serials, journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, French dissertations, exhibition catalogs, legislation, teaching materials, and reports. Updated monthly, FRANCIS covers 1984 to the present.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)--via OVID: Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, this database indexes materials from 1985 to the present. It provides access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. The database contains citations to actual test documents and bibliographic citations to journal articles which contain information about specific test instruments. Full-text is not included.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine--via RLIN's Eureka: The History of Science, Technology, and Medicine database describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields. The database integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Updated quarterly, the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine covers 1975 to the present.
International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ), 1983--: Corresponding to the Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur : IBZ, this is the most international index for foreign-language publications in all disciplines. It does not include full-text. The coverage of the electronic version begins with 1983; the print title (and its variants) goes back to the 1890s (AI9.I6 Reading Room 1st floor Regenstein).
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: Academic Universe provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, political, and reference information from major trade journals, business and financial publications, and general magazines. It is especially useful for political and legal information.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)--via CSA: LLBA indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, technical reports and conference papers on all aspects of theoretical and applied linguistic research in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Coverage includes psycholinguistics, semantics, discourse analysis, interpersonal communication, hearing and speech physiology, psychopathology, nonverbal communication, psychometrics, child language acquisition, computational and mathematical linguistics, language therapy, dialectology, artificial intelligence, bilingualism and other related areas. Coverage begins with 1973 and includes materials from all countries and in all languages of the world (but with limited coverage of dissertations). A Fact Sheet on the database is available from CSA that includes links to a list of journals indexed and to the LLBA classification scheme.
Medline--via OVID ; Medline --via FirstSearch: Beginning in 1965, this index covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. It corresponds to the print Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing Index. Produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), it includes more than 12 million records.
Mental Measurements Yearbook--via OVID: This searchable database includes extracts from the full-text of the reviews and descriptive information about tests and measurement instruments that are contained in the print title of the same name (Z5814.P8R91 Regenstein 4th Floor Reading Room). Coverage begins with the 9th edition (1980) and continues to the present. The database is updated every six months. The producer of the database, the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, removes older entries from the database when a new edition of a test is published. Buros also offers Test Reviews Online that lists 4000 commercially available tests and citations to the reviews that have been published in the Yearbook.
PapersFirst: This is an OCLC index of papers presented at selected conferences worldwide since 1993. It covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. The index is derived from the conferences listed in Proceedings First.
Periodical Abstracts on FirstSearch: Indexes and and provides short abstracts for significant articles from more than 2,400 general and academic periodicals. Full-text is available for approximately one-half of the titles. Topics covered range from business, current affairs, and cultural events, to academic disciplines such as economics, history, literature, sociology, psychology, religion, and women's studies. It also contains records for transcripts of significant segments of more than 80 news- and lifestyle-oriented television and radio programs. Indexing coverage is from 1987 to the present; the full-text content varies but is generally for more recent years.
Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI Full-Text): Indexes the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues (some going back to 1770) up to mid-1990/91. Offers full-text for the backfiles of a few hundred titles. To view a list of the available titles by subject area, use the "browse" function from the database homepage.
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing (PEP) Archive: This database currently offers indexing and links to the full-text of backfile issues of major psychoanalytic journals going back to their first issue and continuing up through 2002. Also included is full-text for more than two dozen classic psychoanalytic monographs. More information is available about the database contents. (There is also a free search interface into the content that does not link to full-text.)
PubMed: PubMed, a free service of the National Library of Medicine available to the public, provides access to MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. "LinkOut" is a jumping-off point from PubMed citations to relevant resources on the web such as full-text articles, library holdings, commentaries, author biographies, practice guidelines, consumer health information, and research tools.
Social Services Abstracts--via CSA: Social Services Abstracts, since 1980, provides bibliographic coverage of research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serial publications and includes citations to dissertations and book reviews.
Social Work Abstracts: Social Work Abstracts, produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), contains information on the fields of social work and human services from 1977 to present. The database provides coverage of more than 450 journals in all areas of the profession, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and social problems.
Sociological Abstracts-- via CSA: Provides access to research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It includes citations since 1963 (and abstracts since 1974) for articles in over 1,500 journals. Draws information from an international selection of journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations. No full-text is included, but there are a few links to full-text available in other databases to which the Library subscribes.
SPORTDiscus--via EBSCOhost: The SPORTDiscus database provides access to bibliographic citations to research literature from around the world for sport, physical fitness and physical education topics. It offers bibliographic coverage of literature discussing sport, sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education, physical fitness and other related disciplines. Citations to theses and monographs date back to 1949, and journal coverage back to 1975. The database producer, SIRC, is the Sport Information Resource Centre of Canada, and many countries contribute to the central Sportiscus database as "indexing partners." While SportDiscus is primarily an indexing database, there is some full-text available.
Web of Science: The Web of Science, now one component of the ISI Web of Knowledge, is a unique citation database that indexes thousands of journals in many languages. It corresponds to the print indexes Science Citation Index Expanded (1945--), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956--), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (1975--). The Web of Science is most useful when you have identified a key author or paper and wish to trace who has since cited the work in the scholarly journal literature, or when you wish to trace the articles that your key author cited in his or her footnotes.
Wilson Select Plus, 1994--: This database includes indexing of articles from 1400 major publications for science, humanities, education and business. Full-text is available for many of the titles.

Additional Library Resources

* The Library offers hundreds of additional databases ranging from those that cover broad categories of information to very specialized ones. Search or browse the Library's database of major Electronic Resources.

* The Library's online catalog includes records for materials in all formats, including electronic.

* The subject pages maintained by bibliographers also include descriptions of important reference resources.

* Also see Keeping Current from the Crerar Science Library that describes several alerting services for scholarly literature.