Research Guides @ Fordham: Psychology: Databases for Articles, Tests, & Videos

Psychology & Psychiatry Databases

Annual Reviews
Includes the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology and the Annual Review of Psychology
Educational Testing Service
Information about educational tests and research by ETS. Not all information is freely available.
JAMA
Subscribed content limited to JAMA, JAMA Psychiatry and JAMA Pediatrics 1998-current. Limit searches to subscribed content only. For search strings with more than 255 characters, use PubMed with journal JAMA.
MedlinePlus
The world’s largest medical library, it has free and reliable consumer-oriented health information about diseases, conditions, treatments, drugs, clinical trials, supplements and wellness issues. Produced by the National Library of Medicine NLM.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print - Access Ends 7/31/25
Critical evaluations of over 2,000 commercially available tests in education, psychology, business, and intelligence.
PEP-WEB
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing contains the full text of 18 journals in psychoanalysis plus writings of well-known psychoanalysts
PsycARTICLES (APA)
Full text articles from selected APA journals and EPF journals, most from 1988 to the present.
PsychiatryOnline
Publications of the American Psychiatric Publishing including DSM-V, journals and books.
Psychology Database
On ProQuest's platform. Provides abstracts and indexing of key psychology journals. Users get access to charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to psychological research.
PsycINFO (APA)
Abstracts and Indexing to serial and book literature in psychology since 1840. On EBSCOhost platform.
PTSDPubs (formerly PILOTS)
A bibliographic database covering literature on traumatic stress sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. It provides citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health traumatic events.
PubMed/MEDLINE
Over 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, online books, and other resources. MEDLINE is the primary component of PubMed. Citations may include links to full-text content in PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®). MEDLINE Citations are included in OneSearch. For more information, see NIH Resources Guide.
PubMed Central
Free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine NLM.
SAGE Research Methods Online
New platform with a multimedia research experience! Explore research methods and concepts to help design research projects. Can be used across many disciplines. Use Chrome or Firefox for Best Results.
Scopus
Abstract and citation database covering thousands of titles in Science, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Health Science, and Arts & Humanities going back to 1960.
Social Science Database
On ProQuest's platform. Offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.

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Additional Database Options
Search our Databases A-Z List by Keyword, Subject, Type, or Vendor.

APA PsycInfo Training Materials

APA Databases Training
Use this link to find downloadable guides for searching APA PsycInfo. Online instruction session taught by APA are also listed.
APA Quick Reference Guide - Searching PsycInfo via EBSCO
Fordham provides access to the database APA PsycInfo via the EBSCOhost platform. For a basic introduction to searching PsycInfo check out this Quick Reference Guide published by APA. (For more detailed or topic specific support consult the Fordham Library Liaisons for Psychology.)

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Materials not owned by Fordham can be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
Consortia privileges provide you with additional access to other research collections* beyond Fordham’s holdings.

*Check with the library you intend to visit to be sure that in-person access is available at this time.

Search Tips and Training

Tips for Searching PsycINFO

Use the Advanced Search
Check the Thesaurus for recommended search terms, word definitions, and historical usage of a search term
Enter each separate word in a different box (theories, concepts, and diagnostic disorders as defined by the DSM-5 are great search terms)
Select the Boolean/Phrase radio button, and use AND, OR, NOT to search multiple words or concepts
Use an asterisk * at the end of a word to get variant endings: child* yields child and children and childhood
Use quotation marks to search for a phrase (adjacent words that must be searched in exact order): "obsessive compulsive disorder"
Consider limiting by Source Type: Scholarly Journals or Books or Dissertations
Consider using dates, age, gender, methodologies, populations, tests & measures, language as limits
The full bibliographic record will indicate if the article is peer reviewed, it will also provide the publication history

Boolean Modifier Video
Video tutorial "How Library Stuff Works: Boolean Modifiers" from McMaster Libraries
Boolean Operators Video
Video Tutorial "How Library Stuff Works: Boolean Operators" from McMaster Libraries
Database Search Tips
Database Search Tips from MIT Libraries covers Boolean search operators, truncation, keyword vs. subjects, fields, phrases and stop words.
Fordham Library Tutorial (under revision)
Specific to the Fordham Library, this tutorial covers both catalog and database searching, evaluating library resources, and an overview of selected library services.
Fake News Research Guide
Learn to critically evaluate the news you read.

Evaluating Websites
This is a handout to help you evaluate source material.

Psychology Streaming Video Collections

Both the AVON and Kanopy databases have psychology video collections.

Academic Video Online (AVON)
PBS Videos have been removed. More than 70,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas and curated for the educational experience. Includes Dance, Music, Classical Performance, and Opera in Video. MUST STAY ON THE ACADEMIC VIDEO CHANNEL - DO NOT CLICK ON CHANNELS LINK. DO NOT EMBED LINKS OR CODE IN BLACKBOARD TO AVOID REMOTE AUTHENTICATION ISSUES. Rather, share the database-generated links via email, chat, or syllabi. What's New (and Some HIGHLIGHTS) in Academic Video Online...
Should you get an error page when trying to access content on-campus or remotely, clear cache / cookies and / or try a different browser that has been cleared of cache / cookies.
Kanopy Streaming Videos
Thousands of videos of movies, documentaries, foreign films and more.
Use desktop or laptop to view videos. DO NOT use mobile app.
RECORDS NOT IN CATALOG. PLEASE CHECK CURRENT AVAILABILITY OF YOUR SELECTED VIDEO. ACQUISITION IS LIMITED TO FORDHAM FACULTY. SELECT THE VIDEO THEN COMPLETE THE POP-UP FORM USING FORDHAM EMAIL. YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED WHEN THE VIDEO IS AVAILABLE. STUDENTS, PLEASE ASK YOUR PROFESSOR TO REQUEST THE FILM THROUGH THIS KANOPY LINK. CLICK ON MORE BEFORE USING:
CURRENT PROBLEM REPORTED WITH USING FIREFOX. CHROME AND OPERA WORKING NORMALLY.
AVOID USING MAC w/FIREFOX FOR ALL STREAMING VIDEOS (NEEDS SEPARATE FLASH DOWNLOAD).
DO NOT USE INTERNET EXPLORER
See also our new streaming video database, Academic Video Online, located on the A tab and Videos & Multimedia tab.
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Psychology: Databases for Articles, Tests, & Videos

Psychology & Psychiatry Databases

APA PsycInfo Training Materials

Need Materials from Outside Fordham?

Search Tips and Training

Psychology Streaming Video Collections

Reference & Instruction Department