ISGuides: Psychology: Journal Articles

Accessing journal articles from off-campus

Video guide

LibKey Nomad

Download the LibKey Nomad browser extension to link to full-text content from the Library from publisher's websites and other web pages. Find out how on this Skills Hub page.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Search for scholarly literature such as journal articles, theses and books from a wide range of sources. To add links to Heriot-Watt journal subscriptions in your results go to your Google Scholar settings, library links, search for Heriot-Watt and select.

To get links to the University Library's full-text materials (FullText@HWU links) in Google Scholar results, use this link to Google Scholar and follow brief instructions on how to adjust your Google Scholar settings on this Skills Hub page.

Discovery single search

Key resources

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window Alternative login route: Use https://www.proquest.com/ then click "Log in through your library to access more features" (in centre of screen) and then "Find your library". Then click on change databases to choose PsycINFO. American Psychological Association’s (APA) resource covering peer-reviewed literature in psychology, behavioral science and mental health.
Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window Searches literature on emotion, behaviour, psychiatry, mental processes, anthropology and observational & experimental methods.
PsycArticles This link opens in a new window Searches contents of journals published by the American Psychological Association and associated publishers covering psychology, behavioural sciences and related disciplines.
Scopus This link opens in a new window Alternative login route: Use https://www.scopus.com/home.uri then login via the "Institution" icon on the home page, then "Check access" and then sign in via institutional access. Scopus is one of the leading databases of peer-reviewed citations and abstracts, covering 21,000 titles from 5,000 publishers in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Scopus recommend uses Chrome or Firefox. Results might not display correctly in Edge.
Web of Science [previously called Web of Knowledge] This link opens in a new window Key databases for finding good quality academic articles from science journals. Web of Knowledge includes: Science Citation Index Expanded (1970 to date) Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (1990 to date) Medline (1950 to date) Biosis Citation Index (1969 to 2008)
ProQuest: Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window Searches thousands of sources from multiple publishers. Cross searches databases covering social science subjects. Not included in Discovery
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window 1886 to date. Searches over 2,300 journals. A business research database providing full text for 2,300 journals including 1,100 peer-reviewed titles. Includes organisational and personnel psychology.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
SPORTDiscus
SPORTDiscus with Full text is the definitive database for sports and sports medicine research. Providing the full-text of hundreds of sports medicine journals, it is an essential tool for health professionals and researchers studying fitness, health and sports.

Subjects Covered:
Athletic training, Coaching and education, Consumer health, Exercise science and fitness, Health education, Kinesiology, Nutrition, Occupational health and safety, Orthopedics, Physical education, Physical therapy, Sociology of sports, , Sport psychology, Sports injuries and rehabilitation, Sports management, Sports sciences
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window Alternative login route: Use https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ then "Login/Register" from homepage and then "Institutional login" from the bottom of the login box. Use to find academic journal articles and ebooks published by Wiley. Heriot-Watt does not have access to everything on the Wiley website - use Discovery to check if we have access to a specific journal.
Proquest: Criminology Collection This link opens in a new window Covers the Criminal Justice Database and National Criminal Justice Reference Abstracts Database searching content on addiction, corrections administration, criminal law, criminology, family law, homeland security, industrial security, law enforcement, rehabilitation, terrorism.

Journals articles outside our collection

Interlibrary loan
Request journal issues or articles we don't have in our collection using the interlibrary loan service
Access to other libraries (UK and Ireland)
More on how to access print journals in other libraries. Find out more about SCONUL Access, access to the National Library of Scotland and access to other libraries.
Library Hub Discover
Search 126 UK and Irish academic, national & specialist library catalogues (replaces Copac and SUNCAT)
Access to Research (UK)
Access to journal content from participating UK public libraries. Browse journal titles from the search page, view abstracts online then visit your local participating library in the UK to view/download the full version.

APA training centre

Guides, tutorials and webinars on using PsycINFO and PsycArticles

Other resources

ANTE (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window ANTE focuses on articles about technological and engineering innovations and is useful if you are looking for information on new techniques or alternative solutions to problems. ANTE is now part of ProQuest: Engineering Index, but this link allows you to search ANTE only.
Applied Science & Technology This link opens in a new window 1983 to date. Searches contents of journals from multiple publishers. A multidisciplinary database covering a broad range of science and technology subjects. Includes coverage of engineering psychology, human factors and ergonomics.
BioMed Central (BMC) This link opens in a new window Search over 200 open access journals published by BioMed Central (see more info for subject coverage). Subject Coverage: Biomedicine, Chemistry, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Dentistry, Earth Sciences, Education, Energy, Engineering, Environment, Life Sciences, Materials Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Public Health, Pharmacy, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Social Sciences Sources: Journal articles (academic) Full text availability: This is an open access full text resource.
Cambridge Journals Online (CJO) This link opens in a new window Journals from Cambridge University Press. Change the search to "Journal Content I Have Access to" to search full text.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) This link opens in a new window Covers over 17,689 peer-reviewed open access scholarly journals (with over 7 million article records) Subject Coverage: Agriculture and food, Architecture and arts, Biology and life sciences, Business and economics, Chemistry, Earth and environmental sciences, Health sciences, History and archaeology, Languages and literature, Law and political science, Mathematics and statistics, Philosophy and religion, Physics and astronomy, Social sciences, Technology and engineering Sources: Journal articles (academic) Full text availability: This is a full text resource. This resource is available to the general public and you can continue to use it after you graduate.
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window Alternative login route: Use https://www.emerald.com/insight/browse/publications then click on Login then Access through your institution Use to search business and management journals published by the Emerald publishing group.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window Publications from the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), the IET (The Institute of Engineering and Technology) and VDE VERLAG Conference Proceedings. Coverage of engineering psychology topics. Full text from 1988 to date; some earlier material is also available online.
IngentaConnect This link opens in a new window Search journal contents from hundreds of publishers across a range of subjects.
ProQuest: MEDLINE This link opens in a new window 2000 to date. Searches multiple sources from multiple publishers. Biomedical database covering a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. Not included in Discovery.
Web of Science: MEDLINE This link opens in a new window 1950 to date. Searches multiple sources from multiple publishers. Biomedical database covering a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services.
Oxford Journals (OUP) This link opens in a new window
Journals published by Oxford University Press.
PTSDpubs This link opens in a new window Published Literature on Traumatic Stress. Not included in Discovery.
PubMed This link opens in a new window 1950 to date. Searches multiple sources from multiple publishers. Subject specific database covering the biomedical literature from Medline (plus out-of-scope citations from Medline journals), life science journals, and online books. Not included in Discovery.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the US National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

Subject Coverage:
Medicine, Biological sciences, Life science

Sources:
Journal articles (academic)

Full text availability:
Some full text online. Use the "Check for Full Text" feature in the database and Inter Library Loan (ILL) for any results that are not part of our collections.

What's the difference between PubMed, MEDLINE and PubMed Central?
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window Alternative login route: Use https://journals.sagepub.com/ then login via the "Institution" icon on the home page and then "Institutional login". 700 journals from the publisher SAGE spanning the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Medicine. Many of these are available in full text, but not every article on the site.
Springer Link This link opens in a new window Alternative login route: Use https://link.springer.com/ then login via the "Institution" icon on the home page, then "Check access" and then sign in via institutional access. Searches contents in journals published by Springer.
Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window Alternative login route: Use https://www.tandfonline.com/ then "Log in" on home page and then "Log in via your institution".Contains information on 1900+ journals covering all subject areas. Please note full text access to articles is limited to those journals to which the Library subscribes.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window Alternative login route: Use https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ then "Login/Register" from homepage and then "Institutional login" from the bottom of the login box. Use to find academic journal articles and ebooks published by Wiley. Heriot-Watt does not have access to everything on the Wiley website - use Discovery to check if we have access to a specific journal.