Featured Resources
- APA Handbooks in Psychology This link opens in a new window
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Full text of multi-volume handbooks from the American Psychological Association. UCLA subscribes to most of the titles.
- Frontiers in PsychologyThis multidisciplinary open-access journal "publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology." Includes 28 subsections including: Cognitive Science, Environmental Psychology, Perception Science and Quantitative Science and Measurement.
- PsyArXivMaintained by the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Sciences (SIPS) and the Center for Open Science.
- SocArXivPapers: open access platform for social scientist to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code.
Journal Article and Other Databases
Note that some of these databases only index journal articles—they don't actually have the full text. Use the gold UC-eLinks or the Get it at UC button - to do an automated search to find the full text, or search for the journal title in the UC Library Search catalog.
- APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
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Full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
- APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts and citations to journal articles, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, and dissertations relevant to students, researchers, and professionals working in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
- PubMed This link opens in a new window
Citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Also searches NCBI's integrated molecular biology databases, including nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes in an integrated system. Note: This link uses a special address which turns on Get it at UC. Without that, PubMed does not link to UCLA's online subscriptions.
Example Searches in PubMed:
- EMBASE This link opens in a new window
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Embase provides essential biomedical evidence from evidence-based content, along with deep biomedical indexing and search forms to assist in building search strategies. - AccessNeurology This link opens in a new window
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AccessNeurology from McGraw-Hill Medical offers a new approach to neurology reference, research, and curricular instruction – all in one place. Updated regularly, this comprehensive online neurology resource covers the entire spectrum of neurology from the basics to specialty-specific content.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of most disciplines. Indexes major journals with all cited references captured. Combines the following citation databases: Science Citation Index Expanded; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI); Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI); Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
- ERIC (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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Index to journal articles from 1969 to the present and ERIC documents since 1966 on educational research and practice. Searches combining different fields (e.g., descriptor with title, author or abstract) are possible at this site. Allows access to the full-text of most ERIC documents from 1996-present. Make sure 'ERIC' is checked before performing your search. Available from UC IP addresses only. - CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
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Full text for more than 1,300 English-language nursing and allied health journals and publications back to 1937. Includes access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters, Evidence-Based Care Sheets, legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. - ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Index to doctoral dissertations from 1637 to the present, with abstracts since 1980. A number of master's theses are also indexed, with abstracts since 1988. Many are available for download in pdf format. UCLA has access to all full text dissertations in the database. Non-UCLA users may use Dissertations Express to purchase digital or print copies of individual dissertations.