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The A-Z Databases webpage is the comprehensive listing of over 200 databases subscribed to by Waggoner Library.
View the short video below to learn how to search for articles using the library's Discovery Search.
Primary psychology and counseling databases include:
This database contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Many records in PsycInfo link to the full text of the article, either directly within the database or through links to other databases or your library's holdings.
A comprehensive and essential database of full-text, peer-reviewed articles published by the APA Journals™ and affiliated journals. It provides global, diverse perspectives on the field of psychology. Coverage back to 1894.
The database provides access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology— abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social, and all areas of applied psychology. Researchers, psychologists, counselors, and behavioral scientists will discover relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in this comprehensive collection.
Covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
Statista provides users with an innovative and intuitive tool for researching quantitative data, statistics and related information.
Other databases include:
An online collection of major religion and theology journals selected by leading religion scholars and theologians.
Includes articles on cultural differences, contributions, and influences of diverse leadership in our global community.
The Gender Studies Collection provides balanced coverage of this significant aspect of culture and society. The database offers access to scholarly journals and magazines covering gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
Statista.com is one of the first statistic portals in the world to integrate data on over 80.000 topics from over 18.000 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.com provides the academic community, companies, and research institutions with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.
Psychotherapy.net (2015). Integrating mindfulness into counseling and psychotherapy [Video file]. https://www-psychotherapy-net.trevecca.idm.oclc.org/stream/trevecca/video?vid=306
Parenthetical citation: (Psychotherapy.net, 2015)
Narrative citation: Psychotherapy.net (2015)
What if your article has no full text? Here are some options:
1. Discovery Search
2. If you know the JOURNAL TITLE or the ARTICLE TITLE, This option identifies if the library has the journal; provides a database link to access available full text.
Mouse over Find Information on the top menu bar on the library homepage
Click the link to E-Journals by Title, Click Search
Enter your journal title into the search box, then search
Or enter the complete bibliographic information to find a specific article, click Search
3. Google Scholar, you can often find the full text of an article in Google Scholar.
4. Interlibrary Loan
Journal article requests can be made through the Interlibrary Loan link on the library homepage.
The foundational search methods described below can be applied as you need them to narrow your topic, hone in on specific content, or identify related terms and relationships. They can be applied in the library Discovery search, databases, Google Scholar, or general search engines.
Keywords
Discovering the right combination of keywords for your research topic takes time. It's a process. You may use one group of words first and then try another group of related words or phrases all in the search process to find the right combination that fits your topic direction. Below you'll see suggestions to maximize keyword searching.
Many academic databases offer an Advanced Search option, which can be incredibly useful when gathering literature for a literature review. This advanced functionality allows you to refine and customize your searches in helpful ways.
For example, with an Advanced Search, you can:
Some databases even let you manually enter the full search query, almost like writing a line of code. This may sound complex, but it's convenient. You can prepare your search ahead of time in a document, then copy and paste it into the database. This makes it easy to run the same search across multiple databases.
Using Punctuation to Change Results
Truncation means adding a symbol to a word that will change your results. Most of the database help pages will list the truncation symbols that can be applied to a search. These are common symbols in use:
Subject Headings
Review the subject headings found in relevant articles from library databases. Subject headings are official terms that are usually clickable either from the result list or from the full record seen after you click on the source's title. Using these to guide your search helps to focus the results.
Including one of the Boolean terms in your search helps narrow ('And') or broaden ('Or') results.
The 'Not' eliminates terms from search results.
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Filters are found in Discovery search, library databases, and search engines. They are ways you can narrow down or focus your search results on retrieving the most relevant resources.
| Date range |
You may want to limit the search results you're seeing based on when they were published. For example, evidence-based medicine often involves looking at research from the last five years, while a project taking a historical perspective will want to include work going further back in time. |
| Language |
Consider limiting your search results to just those published in languages that you can read research in. (Note: your professor/advisor may have additional language restrictions, so if you're including research in multiple languages make sure that works for them too.) |
| Source Type |
Literature reviews usually rely rather narrowly on various scholarly or academic sources rather than the full spectrum of sources available to you. Consider limiting your results to Academic or Scholarly articles. |
| Article Type |
Sometimes you just need a systematic review, empirical study, or another form of research. Subject-specific databases will almost always offer a way to narrow down your results by methodology (article type). When the filter isn't available, you can add your method of choice as an additional keyword! |
Search alerts can save valuable research time and can be set up to provide automatic e-mail notifications whenever new search results become available. You can also retrieve those alerts to perform the search immediately instead of waiting for the alert to run.
Databases:
You must create a free account in the database to save your customized search alert that will automatically run based on your set parameters.
Find books & eBooks using our Discovery search!
Print and eBooks are found using the library Discovery search.
Discovery's Advanced Search allows you to search by author, title, and keyword, then refine by format for print or eBooks.
You can also search for journal articles, videos and other materials using Discovery Search.
Click the tabs above for more information and tutorials.
View the full video on YouTube or click a chapter link for specific content.
URL: https://youtu.be/7_kF2Ry9c08
Chapters:
eBooks
Waggoner eBook collections integrate over 200,000 full-text eBooks into our library catalog. After you search Discovery and view your result list, you can use the filter on the left side of the page to limit to eBooks (Hint: All Formats > Book > eBook). Click on the title and open the record.
Waggoner eBook collections have options for the book to be checked out to an eReader, or print sections of the book or view it online. In order to take advantage of those options, you will need to create a free account. View the eBook LibGuide to learn more about our eBook collections and how to use them effectively.
Searching Discovery for eBooks:
As nice as eBooks are, they are not perfect. Restrictions exist. Copyright and Digital Rights Management (DRM) limits how they can be accessed and downloaded. The eBook LibGuide will take you through the process of viewing eBooks here at Trevecca. It will also highlight the restrictions are you likely to encounter and the best way to manage these problems.
Waggoner eBooks can also be searched directly in the following eBook databases:
Internet eBook Collections
The following web eBook collections are freely accessible:
NEVER download a library eBook for a class assignment unless you see that it has 'UNLIMITED USE'.
If you don't see that information, you need to assume the title has LIMITED use. This means once it has been downloaded, it is NO LONGER viewable online - prohibiting anyone else in your class's use of the book.
To complete your assignment, you can create a PDF for a page range and email that to yourself. Federal copyright law has a limit of 60 pp, but some publishers (Baker Books) have a limit of 12 pp at one time. You can log in again to retrieve additional pages.
Internet browsers do make a difference.
Firefox users may need to adjust the browser settings to open PDFs within the browser. To adjust the Firefox browser settings:
