Psychology and Behavioral Sciences

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PsycINFO
An index to journal articles and book chapters in psychology, selected from more than 1,300 periodicals.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.
  • Index (with full-text for a small number of titles)
  • Coverage: 1877 - present (book indexing begins in 1987)
  • Publications indexed in this database

PsycARTICLES
Search this database for full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database contains over 28,000 full-text articles from over 40 peer reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books.

Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCOhost)
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, includes consumer-oriented test reviews. The purpose of the Yearbook is to provide evaluative information to promote informed test selection. Typical test entries include descriptive information, professional reviews, and reviewer references.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.

Cabell's Directories
4/9/08: Cabell's Directories is temporarily unavailable while Cabell Pub. redesigns their site. Cabell expects access to be restored in mid-April.
The resource provides information about the characteristics, requirements, and procedures of refreed journals for potential authors. Topics include readership, fees charged authors, lengths of manuscripts accepted, review procedures, etc. A table of contents lists journals alphabetically, a subject index classifies them according to topic.

  • Access restrictions: Available to SWOSU students, faculty, and staff on and off campus.

Computers and Applied Sciences Complete
This resource covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. It contains collected knowledge on traditional engineering challenges and research, and is a resource for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology.

Education Research Complete
This resource is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,820 journals, as well as full text for more than 900 journals. This database also includes full text for 71 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

SocINDEX with Full Text
his resource is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. SocINDEX contains full-text for 428 core coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 163 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 735 books and monographs, and full text for over 6,700 conference papers.