Research Guides: A Guide to Psychology Resources: Find Articles

Getting Articles (Not held by WU Libraries)

Interlibrary Loan
Obtain books, articles, and other research materials you need. All articles will be posted electronically in your ILLiad account usually within 1-2 days. Books are available for pickup usually within 1-2 weeks at the location you choose. You will be notified by email when items are available.

Off-Campus Access

Trying to access resources off-campus? While some of the resources in this guide are freely available, most have access restrictions that require that you be a current Washington University student, faculty member, or staff member.

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Citing Sources

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Psychology & Related Fields

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PsycInfo (now APA PsycInfo) This link opens in a new window
Journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields.
PsycArticles (now APA PsycArticles) This link opens in a new window
Contains full-text articles from 58 journals including those published by APA, APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Updated weekly.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (1973 - ) This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.
Web of Science (1900 - ) This link opens in a new window
Science, social science, arts, and humanities citations for scholarly literature.

Additional databases

Academic Search Complete (1975-present) This link opens in a new window
A scholarly, multidisciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and others.
Also includes full-text access to over 5,000 journals. Offers coverage of many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields.
Dissertations & Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis (1996-) This link opens in a new window
Full-text. Citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by Washington University and published in UMI's Dissertation Abstracts database. View 24-page previews of dissertations and theses, and download the full text. Learn more about this database
Gender Studies Database (1972- ) This link opens in a new window
Combines Women’s Studies International and Men’s Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Includes more than 921,000 records.
LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
Full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. Full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. Also includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms.
MEDLINE (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier life sciences database. Explore biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global Full Text This link opens in a new window
Access to 5 million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world from 1637 to the present day together with over 2.7 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Over 200,000 new dissertations and theses are added to the database each year. Learn more about this database.
Note: You cannot request full-text of dissertations or theses via ILLiad from within the database; you can only order them using your own credit card. To request via ILLiad, log in to ILLiad, click on Request a Thesis, and fill out the form.
Psychiatry Online (1998 - ) This link opens in a new window
Journals, textbooks, reference sources and news from American Psychiatric Publishing; includes DSM-V.
PsycTHERAPY This link opens in a new window
Contains over 300 videos featuring therapy demonstrations showing clinicians working with individuals, couples, and families.
PubMed (1946 - ) This link opens in a new window
Over 3,500 journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine. Includes the entire Medline database (1966+) PLUS PreMedline (recent articles that are not yet fully indexed for Medline) and links to publisher full-text web sites and other databases. Learn more about this database
Scopus This link opens in a new window
The world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Contains over 46 million records, 70% with abstracts, and also includes over 4.6 million conference papers. NOTE: Click "Institutions" icon in right corner. Change organization to Washington University in St Louis John M Olin Library, Danforth Campus.