LCU Library: Behavioral Science: Databases

Behavioral Science Databases

Alexander Street Counseling (videos only)
Counseling & Therapy provides a large and rich collection of video for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Students and scholars can study, observe, and experience a wide variety of different therapy and counseling methods and approaches as practiced by experts in their field.
Behavioral and Mental Health Online - Alexander Street Platform
Multimedia database with 2,500 videos and almost 3,500 books, documents and transcripts.
Education Research Complete
The database provides indexing and abstracts for thousands journals, as well as full text for over one thousand journals.
ProQuest Platform
Search the 20th Century Poetry Collections, SciTech Premium Collection, Historical Newspapers: The Austin American-Statesmen, Health Research Premium Collection, Ebook Central, & Academic Video Online
PsycArticles
This full-text psychology database contains articles from highly-cited and landmark journals published by the American Psychological Association.
Psychology (Gale OneFile)
Full text periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology— abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
This comprehensive resource provides access to more than 500 full-text journals for a broad range of topics in the fields of psychology and behavioral sciences.

Other Recommended Behavioral Science Databases

Academic Search Ultimate
Scholarly database of journal articles with full-text covers most topics and is a great place to start.
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Full text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals indexed in the CINAHL database and additional materials include Evidence-Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons which provide concise overviews of diseases and conditions and outline the most effective treatment options.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text contains nearly 500,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. This resource includes full text for nearly 300 magazines and journals.
Education Research Complete
The database provides indexing and abstracts for thousands journals, as well as full text for over one thousand journals.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This resource provides over 500 scholarly full-text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong.
Sociology Source Ultimate
Contains full text peer reviewed journal articles covering aspects of social behavior and interaction.
Humanities Source Ultimate
Full-text database covering literary, scholarly and creative thought. It provides full text, indexing and abstracts for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities.
JSTOR Academic Journals
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
MEDLINE Complete
Full-text database of biomedical and health journals and companion to the MEDLINE index.
SPORTDiscus with Full Text
SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive database for sports and sports medicine research.

Before you search

Identify keywords in your topic.
Choose the best database.
Use 1-2 words per search box.
Combine "keyword phrases" with AND.
Use limiters as needed (dates, scholarly (peer reviewed).
Evaluate your results by reading abstracts.
Look at subject terms assigned to a good article to focus search.
No full text? Use Journal Finder on Journals tab.
The Cite button will help with footnotes.