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Key databases

Databases are collections of resources, primarily journal articles, but they can also contain conference papers, videos, ebooks, reports, images and more. Many databases specialise in a specific subject area, so you'll know when you're searching the database you will find material relevant to your studies.

PsycARTICLES (ProQuest)
Provides full text access, citations and abstracts to articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. Coverage includes general psychology and research in areas including, animal behaviour, cognition, memory, neuroscience, perception, physiological psychology, psycholinguistics, psychometrics, social and personality psychology.
PsycINFO (ProQuest)
Published by the American Psychological Associations this is the largest and most comprehensive index of scholarly articles in behavioural sciences and mental health. Subject coverage includes applied psychology, communication systems, developmental psychology, educational psychology, experimental human and animal psychology, personality, psychological and physical disorders, physiological psychology and neuroscience, psychometrics and statistics, social psychology and sports psychology.
Psychology Database (ProQuest )
This database provides abstracts and indexing from leading psychology and psychosomatic publications, with many available in full text. Charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential to psychological research are also available. Subject coverage includes behavioural, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental and social psychology and personality, neurology, psychobiology, psychometrics and related disciplines.

PsychiatryOnline.
PsychiatryOnline is a website that features the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5) and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references. This resource includes books, journals, medication information handouts for patients, clinical and research news, self-assessment tools, and previous editions of the DSM.

EMBASE (Elsevier)
EMBASE, the Excerpta Medica database, is a major biomedical and pharmaceutical database that indexes international journals covering drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation.
Scopus (Elsevier)
Scopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database which contains an extensive range of content in the field of psychology.

Counseling and psychotherapy transcripts: Volume I & 2
This database contains authentic counselling and psychotherapy transcripts. These are combined with associated reference works and published narratives, memoirs, and client stories which provided the reader with a unique insight into the experience of those undergoing therapy and suffering from mental illness, as well as illustrating a range of therapeutic techniques and practices.

Google Scholar
Access Google Scholar via the library homepage link and log in using your student login credentials. In addition to a range of scholarly resources on the internet, this will also allow you to access results from within the RMIT online collections while searching via the Google Scholar interface which you may find easier.

You will find more databases on Psychology here. Review the details of each database before making your selection and if prompted please logon using your RMIT credentials. Or log in and search across a range of resources via LibrarySearch.

APA referencing style

APA Style is the referencing and publication style created and supported by the American Psychological Association. It is an author-date style, which means you use the surnames of the authors and the date of publication in text, and the reference list is in alphabetical order. See RMIT Easy Cite for instructions on referencing using the APA 7th edition.

For more detailed instructions see the style manual published by the American Psychological Association

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association
ISBN: 9781433832154
Publication Date: 2019-10-01

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