PSYC 2210:
Sources for Research
Subject Specific Article Databases:
Available through the Joyner Library home page (http://www.ecu.edu/lib/) by clicking the
“Databases” link. Select “Social Sciences” from the Subject menu, then choose
“Psychology” and click the red “Go” button. Many databases are restricted to ECU
students, faculty, and staff, and require users to login with their current Pirate ID and
password when accessing them from off-campus.
Recommended Starting Point:
PsycINFO: http://media.lib.ecu.edu/erdbs/erdbs_description.cfm?id=216
- Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines
including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, social work, law, criminology,
education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and organizational behavior. The
coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to nearly 2,000 journals in
more than 20 languages, and to dissertations, technical reports, book chapters and
books in the English language. Produced by the American Psychological Association.
Coverage is from 1887-present. Limit your search to “Peer Reviewed”, and use the
purple “Find It” button to access the full text of articles, if available.
Sample searches: Internet and addiction (retrieves both keywords); “Internet addiction”
(retrieves exact phrase)
Other Useful Databases:
PsycARTICLES: http://media.lib.ecu.edu/erdbs/erdbs_description.cfm?id=309
- The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic,
applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database contains more than 40,000
articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association
(APA) and 11 from allied organizations, including the APA Educational Publishing
Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. It
includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal..
Sample searches: Internet and addict* (retrieves addict, addicted, addiction, etc.)
Social Sciences Citation Index:
(http://media.lib.ecu.edu/erdbs/erdbs_description.cfm?id=236).
-A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal
literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50
disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of
the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Coverage runs from 1956-present.
Finding Specific Articles and/or Journals Online:
E-Journal Locator: (http://jw3mh2cm6n.search.serialssolutions.com/).
- Use this database to find out if a specific magazine, journal or newspaper is available in full text
online to ECU users. Search by journal title (Ex: “American Journal of Psychology”), by subject, or
track down a specific article citation. If a journal does not display any full text results, click on
“Search for item in Joyner Library Catalog” to see if that title is available in hard copy in the
library.
Articles not available electronically or in hard copy in Joyner Library can be ordered
through a service called Interlibrary Loan (http://www.ecu.edu/cslib/accesssrv/ill/index.cfm).
Additional Information: Library 101
For information on plagiarism, including a definition and tips on how to avoid it, please
see the “Citation Guide” section of Joyner’s Library 101 guide. Choose the “Evaluate
Websites” tab for tips on how to determine the credibility of web resources you find via
Google or other search engines:
http://libguides.ecu.edu/library101/
Please contact us with any questions:
David Durant
Federal Documents & Social Sciences Librarian, Joyner Library
durantd@ecu.edu
328-2258
Ask a Librarian: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/reference/ask_a_librarian.cfm
Last Updated: February 16, 2011