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PSYC 25 - Research Methods

Peer reviewed articles in the library

  1. Click the link for Academic Search Complete

    • Note:  If you have not logged into the portal, it will prompt you to enter your portal ID: user name and password

  2. Click on choose databasesto search multiple online databases

  3. Select  Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

  4. Click OK

  5. Try a broad search first such as: pactice search

  6. After you have clicked Search, to narrow your results click the box for "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals"

     scholarly peer reviewed journals from 2005
    • You can also drag the arrows to limit the date of articles published
  7. Try a search of your own with the topic for your Interest Report.

  8. Once you have found an article that interests you, you can click on the title to get more information.

  9. For example: Article example

  10. When you are on this page, also take note that the Peer Reviewed field states "yes," and if you continue to scroll down you can see that the Publication Type is "Journal Articles; Reports - Research." Other credible publication types include "Academic Journal."

  11. From here you can also click on PDF full text to read the article, or email to email it to yourself.

    • It is highly recommended that you email the article to yourself so that you can find it again later

    • You can also get a computer generated citation included in the email by selecting Citation format, APA

    • WARNING: because this is computer generated you may need to edit it to fit the format required by your instructor

    • You may need to use www.crossref.org in order to get the "doi"

  12. Click on results list at the top left of the page to get back to the list of articles