PsycINFO Search Tips

Scroll through this slideshow to get tips to find scholarly articles in PsycINFO

Substitute your own search terms Access at http://tinyurl.com/uconn-psycinfo PsycINFO = search engine for psychology

Do a search for “working memory”

Study that screen (or your search results) and figure out …1. How many results did you get?

2. How are the results sorted?• Where you would change that sort order?

3. How can you limit results to just material published in the last 5 years?

4. How can you limit results to just articles? • Note: all articles in PsycINFO are scholarly!

1. Number of results: 10,490

2. Results sorted by “Relevance”

3. “Filter by Publication Date”

4. Limit to just articles

How would you get the full-text of this article?

Click on HTML Full Text or PDF Full Text

How would you get the full-text of this article?

Click on the UConn Links button

UConn Links: Full-text Online

Click on the Full-text online link

UConn Links: Full-text NOT Online

1. See if we have the journal in print

2. If not, ask the library to get the article for you

3. Check Google – article might be free online

Find “More Like This:” 2 ways “Subjects” are what an article is

about, according to a person who’s read the article

Click on subjects that make sense to find related articles

Still Confused? ask Stephanie for help!

Stephanie Willen Brown Librarian for psychology & communication email: stephanie.brown@uconn.edu IM: CogSciLibrarian Call: 860.486.4855