PsycINFO Guide  

Welcome to the guide to PsycINFO.  This guide introduces you to basic search techniques for PsycINFO and then covers more advanced search features that allow you to become more systematic in your searching.  Finally, it will explain how to interpret the records you find and provide some advice on how to access full-text to various types of sources.

This guide has the following sections:

• Keyword Searching in PsycINFO
   
• Advanced Searching in PsycINFO
   
• Subjects | Thesaurus | Field Searching | Search Limits
  
  
• Scholarly? Peer-Reviewed?
  
  
• Getting Full Text

Description of PsycINFO

Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycINFO indexes journal articles, dissertations, reports, books, book chapters, and other scholarly documents. The definitive resource in psychology, it indexes literature from over 34 countries in more than 30 languages. Coverage is from 1872 - present.

Purpose

PsycINFO is a tool (often referred to as an index) for finding material that has been published on various psychological topics. The index provides you with a citation and an abstract, but it does not provide full text. It is also important to note that the York University Libraries do not subscribe to all the material included in the index.

Off-Campus Access

If you are off campus you will have to log in through the proxy server, before you can get into Psycinfo. The proxy server screen will automatically appear when you click on the link to the index. You can log in using either your Passport York account or the barcode on the back of your YU-Card and your library PIN number.

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