The Library subscribes to thousands of academic journals and magazines (print and electronic).
Magazines are usually aimed at a profession, business or interest; and contain articles, news, job adverts, new product reviews, events and advertising.
Academic journals focus on a specific subject area and contain detailed articles, papers and research. The articles are often peer-reviewed, so have been assessed for quality by experts prior to publication. These are a good source for your projects and assignments.
Good for finding articles from the whole range of medical literature. Covers more than 4800 journals.
Electronic journal holdings can be checked in the Library catalogue, where links will be provided if there is an online version. The electronic journals search screen may also be checked. Always remember to sign in to Library Search to access all the e-resources available to you
Many electronic journals are provided in "bundles", packages or specialised subject collections from particular publishers. For example, Sage Premier Collection, EBSCO and Elsevier's Science Direct. Others may be provided within a database such as PsycINFO or PEPWeb. Journal databases are online resources which allow you to access the contents of journals i.e. articles. Many also contain conference proceedings, research papers, newspapers and standards.
The Library subscribes to a large selection of journal databases including several specific to Psychology
Journal databases can usually be searched by subject and more specifically by author, type of material, article title, publisher, year, language or organisation. A successful search will provide you with a list of relevant references to articles etc. Many databases provide full-text articles ie. the articles can be read online.
Access: MyMDX > Study > Library > Library: Quick Links > Databases
We have a wide range of databases suitable for psychology students.
From 4th August MDX will be migrating to a new EBSCO user interface (UI) known as EBSCO Discovery Service. EBSCO is the search platform for databases such as CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, SPORTDiscus, Education Research Complete and Business Source Complete. If you have set up an account within any of these databases and saved searches and results, they should be automatically migrated across to the new UI.
Many of the key psychology databases such as APAPsycInfo, APAPsycArticles and APAPsycTests are hosted by a company called EBSCO
If you would like some help on how to use EBSCO databases and how to do basic searches and advanced searches this is a useful website with video tutorials to help you out.
Using Boolean Operators on EBSCO Databases:
https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/Searching-with-Boolean-Operators?language=en_US
Proximity searching on EBSCO Databases:
https://connect.ebsco.com/s/article/How-do-I-create-a-proximity-search?language=en_US
The APA also have a helpful YouTube channel you can use to help with their databases