The database includes material of relevance to psychologists, and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work.

Updated weekly, PsycINFO provides access to journal articles, books, chapters, and dissertations. Most of the journals in PsycINFO are peer-reviewed.

It is primarily an index, but does include some full-text links to items in the Journals@Ovid database.

For information on things like numbers of records and languages/countries represented, see the APA's PsycINFO Factsheet.

This is one of many databases available in the Ovid platform. Once in the Ovid interface, you can change to another database by clicking on the Change link in the main search panel. All Ovid databases can be searched individually or in any combination.

Ovid provides PsycINFO in a number of date-range packages, and also provides PsycARTICLES Full Text , PsycBOOKS, and PsycTESTS.

Specific subject content includes behavioural, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial, personal, physiological, and social psychology. Coverage of related disciplines includes genetics, psychology of business and economics, communication, criminology, addiction, neurology, and social welfare.

Titles include:

* The American Journal of Psychiatry
* Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
* The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
* Development and Psychopathology
* The Psychological Record.

ProQuest Psychology Database is one of many databases available in the ProQuest platform. All ProQuest databases can be searched individually or in combination. You can change databases within ProQuest by clicking on the "Searching: ... databases" link at the top left of the search screen.

ProQuest Social Science Database is another database that might be of interest, while ProQuest Social Science Databases is a package of ProQuest databases all with social sciences material.

MEDLINE is recognised as the premier index of biomedical literature. It includes health and medicine, allied health fields, and veterinary science, plus the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to health care. It is produced by the United States National Library of Medicine and covers thousands of international journals from 1946 - .

It is primarily a database of citations, but the Ovid version includes links to some full text journal titles from the database CSU Full Text Journals@Ovid, listed in the Charles Sturt databases lists as Journals@Ovid CSU Full Text Subscribed.

For the full-text of other items, use the >strong>Find it button to search for the full article via Primo Search.

MEDLINE is provided by Ovid in various date packages. These can be accessed from the Library's list of M-databases or from the Ovid menu of databases.

MEDLINE is very similar to the free and publicly available PubMed.

CSU staff and students have some full-text access to most of the journals in this database. In Advanced Search, you can limit your search to "SAGE Journals Available to Me" (or to Open access content only). In your results list, full-text articles are marked with a green open-padlock icon.

You can search within individual journal titles or across the whole database, and browse journals by title, discipline or subject. The 4 disciplines are Health Sciences, Life & Biomedical Sciences, Materials Science & Engineering, and Social Science & Humanities, and each discipline has a number of subjects.

You can use My Tools to create alerts, save citations and searches, and set up "My Favourite Journals".

Coverage varies according to each journal, but in some cases extends as far back as 1879.

PsychiatryOnline is a web-based portal that features access to 5 eJournals and a small collection of eBooks in the area of psychiatry. Importantly, this portal gives online access to DSM-5.

The main resource available here is the DSM-5 Library,which consists of:

* Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th ed. [DSM-5]
* DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis
* DSM-5 Clinical Cases.

Other eBooks available in PsychiatryOnline include:

* The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry
* Gabbards Treatments of Psychiatric Disorders
* Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments
* The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry
* The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Substance Abuse Treatment
* The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychopharmacology
* Manual of Clinical Psychopharmacology ...

... while the 5 journals that are available are:

* The American Journal of Psychiatry
* Psychiatric Services
* Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
* FOCUS
* Psychiatric News.

Other resources include American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines, medication information handouts for patients, and selected materials journal articles and book chapters grouped under Topic headings.

You can search individual resources, or search across a combination of resources (all eBooks, or all eJournals), or search across the whole of PsychiatryOnline. The Advanced Search screen gives a range of search options and limiters.

Note: a mobile app for DSM-5 is available via iTunes Store.

The databases are:

* Academic Search Complete;
* Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection;
* SocINDEX with Full Text.

All EBSCOhost databases can be searched individually or in any combination.

Tutorials on how to do psychological research, or how to understand many fascinating aspects of the field such as neuropsychology, drugs & behavior or social psychology; see professional psychologists in action, such as forensic psychologists working inside a prison, or clinical psychologists treating patients with a variety of mental health disorders; or venture back to the field’s beginnings via footage of John B. Watson, Muzafer Sherif’s and other early pioneers.

The database is produced by the Buros Institute for Testing at the University of Nebraska, and covers more than 7,500 commercially available tests in categories including personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychological, achievement, intelligence & aptitude, educational, speech & hearing, and sensory motor.

Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher, publication date; price; time requirements; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations.

The database is updated every six months.

Mental Measurements Yearbook is one of many databases available in the Ovid platform. Once in the Ovid interface, you can change to another database by clicking on the Change link in the main search panel. All Ovid databases can be searched individually or in any combination. Another tests database available in Ovid is PsycTESTS.

The database includes published tests, and unpublished tests that researchers have developed but not made commercially available.

Content includes scales for beliefs, relationships or expectancies; racial and ethnic identity scales; resilience, anger, or substance abuse inventories; physical health related assessments; aggression, coping, or functional status questionnaires, personality assessments; military tests; neuropsychological assessments; and intelligence tests.

There are two types of records:
* "Test master" records which summarise the test and describe purpose and design
* Other records which cover development, review, or use of a test, and provide extra details, sourced from peer-reviewed literature, technical reports, or dissertations.

So it's possible that a particular test will have more than one record.

A permissions field alerts you to tests you can use without formal permission. This is the case with most tests. Other options include contacting the author and/or the publisher.

This is one of many databases available in the Ovid platform. Once in the Ovid interface, you can change to another database by clicking on the Change link in the main search panel. All Ovid databases can be searched individually or in any combination. Other psychology databases in Ovid include PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES Full Text , while Mental Measurements Yearbook is another Ovid database with information on testing instruments.