Electronic Resources - Psychology & Counselling

This list does not include individual e-journals. Please use the E-journals A to Z to search for e-journals by title.

Many resources require Keele usernames for off-campus access. Please see  our E-resources Access page for further information about this service.

Bibliographic Databases

These services enable you to find references for journal articles on a particular topic.  Some also index book chapters, conference papers and theses. They provide full bibliographic details for articles (references) and often abstracts (summaries).  Their extensive, international coverage means that items found by your search may not necessarily be available from the Library's collections.

If no full-text link is given for an article, clicking on the @Keele logo will search our e-journals and provide a link to the full-text if available, or direct you to where a paper copy may be found in the Library's print journal collection.  Items not available either online or in print can usually be obtained for a fee through the Inter-Library Requests service

  • PsycINFO
    The American Psychological Association’s renowned database of peer-reviewed literature in behavioural science and mental health. Our PsycINFO Quick Guide will help you get started.
  • EBSCO Psychology & Sociology Databases
    Searches not only PsycINFO (see above) but also Academic Search Complete (multi-discilpinary), AgeLine (social gerontology), CINAHL Plus (nursing and allied health) and MEDLINE (medicine) at the same time.  Our EBSCO Quick Guide will help you get started.
  • Web of Knowlege (includes Web of Science)
    Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.  Includes Web of Science, MEDLINE and Biosis Citation Index/Previews (life sciences and biomedical research).  Click here for off-campus access.  Our Web of Knowledge Quick Guide will help you get started.
  • ScienceDirect
    Leading scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters.  Our ScienceDirect Quick Guide will help you get started.
  • ProQuest Social Sciences Databases
    Cross-search a variety of databses including Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA), Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (PILOTS), Social Services Abstracts and Sociological Abstracts.  Click here for off-campus access.
  • ProQuest Biological Sciences
    Interdisciplinary database including the biological, genetic and neurosciences.  Click here for off-campus access.
  • CAIRSS for Music
    Database of research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy and music medicine.




Electronic Journal Collections

These are searchable collections of full-text e-journals.  They often lack the wide-ranging coverage of bibliographic databases, but the full-text of articles are immediately available in the majority of cases.

  • PsycARTICLES
    This is the APA (American Psychological Association) e-journal collection.  Many psychology journals formerly available in the Library's print collection are now available from this service.  Our PsycARTICLES Quick Guide will help you get started.  Click here for off-campus access.
  • Cogprints
    Electronic archive of papers in psychology, neuroscience and linguistics.
  • JSTOR
    Digital archive of over 1,000 academic journals covering the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
    Our JSTOR Quick Guide will help you get started.  Click here for off-campus access.
  • SwetsWise
    Full-text access to over 3,000 journals covering many disciplines.  Click here for off-campus access. Our SwetsWise Quick Guide will help you get started.
  • SAGE Journals
    Over 600 peer-reviewed, full text journals with coverage dating back to 1999.

E-Books

To search for e-books held by the Library, use the Library Catalogue and change the 'View Entire Collection' option to 'Electronic Resources'.  E-books can be read in full, online, 24-hours a day.  The following e-book collections may also be useful:

Our E-books Quick Guide will help you get started.

Newspapers

The following services provide full-text access to a large number of newspapers:

Theses

To search for theses held in the Library, use the Library Catalogue Advanced Search and set the material type to "THESIS".  The following resources may also be of use:

  • ETHOS
    The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.
  • Index to Theses
    A searchable listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. You can only access the Index to Theses from computers on the Keele network.
  • NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
    Details of theses and dissertations from universities in the United States and worldwide.
  • PhDData
    An index of doctoral dissertations in progress around the world.

Other Useful Links

  • Google Scholar
    Use Google to search specifically for scholarly literature.  Our Google Scholar Quick Guide will help you get started.
  • Internet for Psychology
    A free online tutorial to help psychology students develop their online research skills.
  • Intute: Psychology
    A free online search service providing access to quality web resources for psychology.
  • PSYCLINE
    A directory of links to more than 1,800 psychology and social science journal sites.
  • Psych Web!
    Psychology related information for students and teachers.
  • Internet Detective
    A free online tutorial offering practical advice on evaluating the quality of websites.
  • RefWorks
    This is an online reference management software tool which can be used to import, manage and save references from your research, enabling easy creation of bibliographies.  See our Refworks information page for further details.
  • Zetoc
    Use this site to set up "table of contents" email alerts to your inbox when new issues of journals are published.

Click here for a useful list of mental health resources.