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Psychology Librarians
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Core databases for Articles
- PsycInfo (includes full text from PsycArticles) This link opens in a new windowPsychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines.
- PubMed (1946 - present) This link opens in a new windowPremier database containing over 30 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a focus on biomedicine. Freely available and includes MEDLINE. This link goes to the version with UBC elink.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowSearch citations and abstracts for journal articles, conference proceedings, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Can also be used for cited reference searches, citation analysis of research and searching by affiliation. Covers a different group of journals than Web of Science.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowSearch citations and abstracts for journal articles, conference proceedings, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Can also be used for cited reference searches, citation analysis of research and searching by affiliation. Covers a different group of journals than Scopus.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary search engine for academic research articles. Connect via this link for off-campus access to the full text of articles, via UBC eLink.
- PsycExtra This link opens in a new windowPsycEXTRA includes technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. 70% full text. Produced by APA.
More Databases
- Classics in the History of PsychologyMore than 25 books and 200 seminal articles in the early development of psychology.
- CogprintsArchive of freely available preprints and reprints in cognitive psychology, neuroscience and linguistics.
- Canada Commons This link opens in a new windowSearchable access to current public documents issued by Canadian public policy and health research agencies and think tanks, as well as books from over 70 Canadian publishers.
- ERIC (EBSCO interface) This link opens in a new windowMost comprehensive education index, covering nearly 1000 journals, primarily American. Also indexes ERIC documents, including conferences, curricula, reports etc. ERIC (EBSCO) includes many links to full text.
- HaPI - Health and Psychosocial Instruments (OvidSP)Database provides access to evaluation and measurement tools designed to facilitate health and psychosocial studies.
- Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new windowThe main article index for Linguistics. Indexes journals, books, technical reports, papers, dissertations, and book reviews in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook (now includes Tests in Print) This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive guide to over 3,000 contemporary testing instruments - personality, aptitude, neuropsychology, achievement, intelligence, etc. The full text of the tests is not included.
- PTSD Pubs (Formerly PILOTS)Multi-disciplinary index on traumatic stress and mental health.
- PsyArXiv PreprintsResearch that has not yet been published or peer-reviewed, including articles under review and working papers.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - Full Text This link opens in a new windowRLM is a comprehensive resource. Topics include pitch discrimination and production, cognitive benefits of playing music, etc,
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowSearch citations and abstracts for journal articles, conference proceedings, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Can also be used for cited reference searches, citation analysis of research and searching by affiliation.
- Sociology Collection This link opens in a new windowSocial psychology, sociolinguistics, etc. Includes Sociological Abstracts.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowMultidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes science, social science, arts and humanities.
Student Journals
UBC UJP Undergraduate Journal of Psychology
Annual student-run, peer-reviewed journal. "Our goal is to provide a platform for psychology undergraduates at UBC to showcase their research."
UBC Vancouver Psychology Library Assignment (Human Subjects Pool)
The Library writing option is an alternative to participation in the Human Subjects Pool. The option requires that you read articles from the journal Psychological Science, which is available right here.