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Psychological & Brain Sciences Librarian
Ted Chaffin
Contact:
Anthropology Librarian
Office Phone: 1-314-935-6003
Email: tchaffin@wustl.edu
Office Phone: 1-314-935-6003
Email: tchaffin@wustl.edu
Subjects: Anthropology, Psychology
Find Full-Text Faster
LibKey Nomad automatically provides instant links to full text content for articles WU subscribes to - or open access alternatives - as you do research. Nomad figures out the fastest path to full-text, saving you time!
Databases for finding articles and citations
- APA PsycInfo (formerly PsycInfo) This link opens in a new windowUse this database for finding journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields.
- Google ScholarEasily links to full-text sources available from WU. Useful for cited reference searching.
- Academic Search Complete (1975- )Scholarly, multi-disciplinary database containing full text for more than 4,650 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.
- Web of Science (1970- )This database includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Useful for cited reference searching.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowThe 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.
- PsycArticles (now APA PsycArticles) This link opens in a new windowContains full-text articles from the APA and others, mostly back to volume one for each journal.
- PubMedIncludes Medline and PreMedline. Covering more than 3,500 journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine. Updated monthly.
- Medline (1965- )Medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
Tips for using APA PsycInfo: - PsycINFO User GuideTips for searching the PsycINFO database for articles and citations.
- APA Databases on EBSCOHost (6 video playlist)This playlist shows the training videos that demonstrate PsycINFO on the EBSCOhost platform.
Additional sources for locating articles (FREELY)
- Unpaywall
Get full-text of research papers as you browse using Unpaywall's index of 10 million legal, open access (FREE!) articles. For Chrome and Firefox.
- Google Scholar Button
Easy access to Google Scholar from any Web page. Find full-text on the Web or in a library you are affiliated with. Select the title of the paper on the page you're reading and click the Scholar button to find it. For Chrome and Firefox. - Open Access Button
Free, legal research articles and data delivered instantly or automatically requested from authors. You can do this from the website or install a browser extension/API - Academia.edu
Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. - ResearchGate
ResearchGate's mission is to connect the world of science and make research open to all. - CORE
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. As of today, CORE gives you access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories.
