Indexes and Databases

The Royal Military College of Canada Library

Psychology

Academic Search Premier (through CFVL)
Academic Search Premier indexes over 8,000 scholarly publications, and provides full text for more than 4,450 of these titles, including 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Features such as citation indexes are provided. Coverage spans every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews offers analytic reviews in 40 disciplines within the biomedical, life, physical, and social sciences. The articles are frequently cited in scientific literature.
Canadian Periodical Index (CPI), 1920-
(1920-1987) available in print in the Reference section of the Massey Library REF AI 3 .C242.
(1988-) on the internet.

Index of Canadian and American English language periodicals on a wide variety of subjects, such as business, sciences, arts and humanities, social sciences, environment, etc. Full text articles from 150 of these periodicals.
JSTOR (through CFVL)
This database is a full-text archive for journals in humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Most recent issues (3 to 5 years) are not available, but in some cases may be accessible through other library databases. The following collections are included:
 
Arts & Sciences I Collection - This collection of 119 titles includes core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences, and titles in ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
Arts & Sciences II Collection - This collection of 124 titles adds depth to many disciplines introduced in Arts & Sciences I, such as economics, history, and Asian studies, as well as core journals in disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies.
Arts & Sciences IV Collection - This collection of 112 titles has a strong focus on the professions of business, education, and law, and also includes titles in psychology and public policy and administration.
Arts & Sciences Complement - This collection covers important titles not included in earlier collections and captures journals that cross discipline boundaries. A minimum of 150 journals will be added over five years, concluding by the end of 2008.
PILOTS (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress)
The PILOTS database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,.contains citations to a wide range of literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related topics. Works covered include journal articles, book chapters and books, pamphlets, technical reports, and other documents in several languages, some as far back as 1871.
Project MUSE
Project MUSE provides full text, subscription access to current content from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
PsycARTICLES
This database offers full-text articles from over 50 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (through CFVL)
The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a database providing nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
PsycInfo, 1887-
Index to theses, books, book chapters and articles from 1,300 periodicals published in various countries and in various languages, on psychology and the psychological aspects of areas such as psychiatry, sociology, medicine, education, and business.
PubMed, National Library of Medicine, 1966-
PubMed indexes more than 4,600 biomedical journals originating from the United States and over 70 other countries. Subjects covered include medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems and pre-clinical sciences.
REPÈRE, 1980-
Index to 550 French language periodicals, including the full text for some articles, covering all subject areas, such as the arts, computer science, current events, economics, medicine, philosophy, politics, psychology, sociology, and sports.
Sage Journals Online: Management, Political Science, Sociology (through CFVL)
Sage Journals Online: Management, Political Science, Sociology offers the full text of journals published by SAGE and participating societies in the areas of Management and Organization Studies, Political Science, and Sociology. Topics covered include: Human Resource Management, Marketing, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Consumer Culture, and Social Theory.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier), 1995-
This database provides full-text access to over 1800 peer-reviewed journals published by Elsevier and its subsidiaries. It covers disciplines in science and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
SocINDEX with Full-text (through CFVL)
This database provides an index to core sociology journals, as well as full-text for over 600 journals and 700 books.
SpringerLink
This database provides full-text access to over 1,200 journals published by Springer and its subsidiaries.
Web of Knowledge, 2004-
The Web of Knowledge provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the world's leading scholarly research journals. It also provides *cited reference searching*. The following databases are included:
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index
  • Science Citation Index
  • Social Science Index
  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index
Wiley Online Library
Wiley Blackwell offers over 1400 full-text journal titles in areas such Business, Economics, and Finance, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Science, Education,  Engineering, Humanities and Social Sciences, Information Science and Computing, Law and Criminology, Life Sciences, Mathematics and Statistics, Medical, Veterinary and Health Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Polymers and Materials Science, and Psychology.

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