Psychology resources
Databases
Database published by the American Psychological Association, provides comprehensive abstracts and indexes of international psychology publications from 1800 to the present. Catalogued documents include journals, articles, books, theses and more. Ninety percent of titles have been reviewed.
Complete Freedom Collection (ELSEVIER)
The Elsevier Freedom Collection is a service that provides access to the full text of around 1,700 scientific, medical and technical journals from the Elsevier Group.
Publishers included in the Freedom Collection include Academic Press, Pergamon, W. B. Saunders, Mosby, North Holland, Churchill Livingston, JAI and ESME.
Family and Society Studies Worldwide
A leading source of research, policy and empirical practice in family science, human ecology, human development and social welfare.
Contains 1,306,000 records covering all fields and needs for social work, sociology and general medicine. Documents range from 1970 to the present day.
Contains selected publications such as journals, open access journals, books and conference proceedings in psychology and related disciplines published in Spain, Portugal and Latin America.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
The world's most comprehensive database in the field of psychology. Includes the full text of about 560 publications since 1965. Covers topics related to emotional and behavioural characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, observational and experimental methods.
SAGE Humanities and Social Science (HSS) Package
Online platform containing more than 660 Humanities and Social Science journals with full-text access from 1999 to the present. It includes peer-review journals, many of which have an impact factor in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Highlights include family studies, gerontology and ageing, psychoanalysis, psychology and counselling.
- Tutorial [SPA]
Scopus is the largest database of citations and abstracts of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Offering a comprehensive summary of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, medicine, social sciences, and the arts and humanities, Scopus includes intelligent tools for tracking, analysing and visualising research.
- Videotutorial [SPA]
The Web of Science is the collection of databases of bibliographic references and citations to periodicals that collect information from 1900 to the present day. It is made up of the Core Collection, which includes the indexes of Science, Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, as well as the Proceedings of both Science and Social Sciences and Humanities, together with the tools for analysis and evaluation, such as the Journal Citation Report and Essential Science Indicators. In addition, it has the databases that complement it included in the licence for Spain: Medline, Scielo and Korean Citation Index.
- Tutorial [SPA]
Provides access to the full text of some 1,400 journals (generally since 1997) published by John Wiley and Sons. The dominant language of the articles is English. The subject matter covers both the scientific and humanities fields.
Free databases
Cogprints
Repository belonging to Eprints3 covers several areas, including psychology.
Psydok: Open Access Repository
Open access repository for psychology at the University of Saarland.
Search engine of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the United States. Allows access to databases compiled by the NLM, such as MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE (consisting of citations submitted by publishers), Genbak and Complete Genome. It includes 16 million bibliographic references and abstracts of articles in medicine, biomedicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, public health, pre-clinical sciences and physiotherapy from the 1950s to the present day. It also offers numerous full-text articles.
Produced by the Leibniz Insitute for Psychology Information and other partners. International information retrieval system on psychology (tests, therapeutic programmes and research data) from European and North American scientific information producers. Databases included: Psyndex, Pascal, Isoc-Psychology, Eric, Medline, NARCIS, NOART, PsychOpen, PsychData.
General library resources
Reference works
Compiled by PrioryLodge Education (Biomedical Journal Network).
Interactive Glossary of Mental Health & Disability Terms
List of commonly used terms in mental health and disability. Compiled by Consueling.info, a US directory of therapists.
Lexikon der Management-Diagnostik
German glossary with English translation. Produced by Klug Paul + Partners: advanced Management Diagnostics.
Portals and search engines
Tool of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+i) of the UNED, with the support of the FECYT.
Provides scientific and up-to-date information on mental health and mental illness. Exhaustive and detailed compilation of websites on the subject, publication of blogs, podcasts, articles, mental health support community for both professionals and the general public.
Psychological Research on the Net
Portal created by Hanover College Psychology Department. Compilation of studies, research in psychology, classified by subject.
Web sites
American Psychologyical Association
Scientific and Professional Organization of American Psychologists. Its mission is the development of psychology as a science and as a profession.
EFPA: European Federation of Psychologists' Associations
An organisation that brings together national psychology societies in the EU. Its aim is to promote the development of psychology as a profession and as a discipline. Its aim is the integration of psychological practice and research.
General Council of Official Colleges of Psychologists
The coordinating and representative body of the official colleges of psychologists. Its objectives are the scientific promotion of psychology and improvement of professional activities, promoting and organising congresses, conferences, etc.
Website of the Official College of Psychologists of Madrid
Website of the Official College of Psychologists of Madrid, which compiles information of interest for the practice in the different professional fields.