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PSYC 436: Journal Search

A Library Subject Guide

Journal Search

Here's how to find an article in Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.

Login to our database APA PsycArticles:

Set up a search like this:

search in APA PsycArticles

Note that we typed the journal name into the first box, in quotation marks, and used the pulldown menu to the right to select "SO Publication Name"

Note, too, that we entered keywords for a topic into the second box. Keep your keywords, your topic, fairly broad and general--a simple, broad search works best when we've limited our results to only one journal.

All the results will be from the Professional Psychology: Research and Practice.

If your article has to be experimental (empirical), here is a guide for how to identify experimental (empirical) articles.

If your assignment requires you to choose an article no more than 5 years old, just check the date on the article you want to use, to make sure it's not too old. You can also limit the search results to a particular time period: scroll down and under "Limit your results" add the desired dates.