Basic steps for searching PsycINFO and PsycArticles.

1. PsycINFO and PsycArticles
Psychology Databases from
EBSCOhost

2. PsycINFO
Contains Citations and abstracts of scholarly
journal articles, book chapters, books, and
dissertations in psychology and related
disciplines. Covers general psychology and
specialized basic, applied, clinical, and
theoretical research in psychology.

3. PsycINFO
Do you also use the PsycArticles database?
PsycINFO will also search for those articles, you
do not need to use both databases.
Use only PsycArticles if you want only Journals
published by the American Psychological
Association.

4. PsycINFO
Keyword
searching
area.
Specialized search
settings and
limiters. (Limit by
date, article type,
etc…

5. PsycINFO
Use “drop-down” menus to
Use checkbox to find ideas choose a particular place to
for similar or related words search (title, author, etc.). (Not
and phrases required, but helpful.)
Enter most important search words here. (click
add row if you have more words to search on.

6. PsycINFO
These “limiters” let you search
for articles:
• Published within certain dates.
• About a particular group of
people (women, children,
animals…)
• Scholarly Journals only.
• Age groups
• Type of research.
• Much more…

7. PsycINFO
(More limiters!)

8. PsycINFO
Results list…
Limiters

9. PsycINFO
You may continue to
limit the articles after
the search, if you still
have too many…

10. PsycINFO
Some articles in the
results list will have
full-text, while others
will not.
If no full-text, please
look for that journal
in our Journals A-Z
list (or consult a
librarian!).
Click on the article
title to get more
information…

11. PsycINFO
Article citation page
Link to the full-text
article (if available). Printing, emailing,
citing help, etc.

12. PsycINFO
Journal information
(name, volume &
issue, date, pages
Additional
information about
article, including
abstract (summary)
of the article.

13. PsycINFO
Printing, emailing,
citing help…

14. PsycINFO
“HTML” version of a
full-text article.
Be sure to use the
print option at right
for printing.

15. PsycINFO
“PDF” version of a
full-text article.
Be sure to use the
print option at top-
left for printing.

16. PsycINFO
If you put a check in the
“Suggest Subject Terms”
box, you will find ideas for
similar/related words and
phrases

17. PsycINFO
(Additional subject terms to consider.)