Research Guides: PSYC E-1501 Research Guide: Articles

Articles

PsycINFO
- One of the best databases for professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.
- After doing some background and overview research as described above, you can now be more specific with your search words: (Review this Search Operators page for help with using search word tips and tricks)
  - For example: "racial discrimination" AND (covert OR hidden OR interpersonal) AND (organization OR workplace OR business)
- Also, consider using the APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms to browse for indexed terms that organize similar articles.
  - For example, searching for: industrial organizational psychology, leads you to the actual indexed term that groups articles together: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
    - You can then add a search term related to your topic on the search box below the index term: DE "Industrial and Organizational Psychology" AND gender
ProQuest One Business
- One of the best databases for sources relevant to research in business.
- This is a large database, so you will want to have specific search terms.
  - You can also use industrial organizational psychology as a search word
    - "racial discrimination" AND "industrial organizational psychology"
- You can use the filters on the left column to limit your search results:
  - For example, by Source Type, Publication Date, and limit to Peer reviewed:
    - "racial discrimination" AND (covert OR hidden OR interpersonal) AND (organization OR workplace OR business)
Google Scholar
- Helpful for seeing how many times articles are cited.
- Connecting Google Scholar with Harvard Library: Instructions