Articles

Scholarly Journals

Guide to Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles
What is a "peer-reviewed article" and how do you find one? This guide walks you through a search in EBSCO. You'll be able to use the same search strategy in other databases.

PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)
From the American Psychological Association (APA), the definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO)
Provides access to hundreds of full-text journals and offers particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling.
ScienceDirect
Hundreds of unique scholarly medical, health, and life science journals from Elsevier. For full-text articles, select "Subscribed Journals" from the drop-down Source list.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
A multi-disciplinary scholarly database containing full-text articles from nearly 4000 peer-reviewed journals covering many disciplines such as computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more.

(View Quick Guide to using Academic Search Complete)

ProQuest Research Library
Full-text peer-reviewed articles from a broad range of academic subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
PubMed Central
An open access archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).
ERIC (EBSCO)
Education literature and resources from the Education Resource Information Center
Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCO)
Provides sources covering a wide array of subjects, including addiction studies, ethics, public welfare, urban studies and more.

DSM-5 Online

How to Search the DSM-5

Video: How to Search and Cite a Chapter from the DSM
View a 3 1/2 minute YouTube video on searching and citing the DSM
DSM Library
Includes the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition), the DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, the DSM-5 Clinical Cases, the DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview, and the Spanish edition of Diagnostic Criteria from the DSM-5. (See "How to Search the DSM-5" above for instructions on accessing our subscribed titles.)

Sample DSM References Document
This document contains sample APA style citations for a chapter from the DSM-5 Online and an academic journal article.

Reference Sources

Britannica Online Academic
The complete encyclopedia with additional multimedia content, e-books, articles, and Web links.
CREDO Reference
Hundreds of searchable reference books on a wide variety of subjects including business, history, science, social science, and the humanities.

Publication Finder

Publication Finder
Use Publication Finder to find full-text journals. Search by journal title, ISSN, or subject headings to see what full-text journals are available at Ivy Tech, either in print or in a database.

Use Google Scholar

Use Google Scholar to find journal articles. Some articles may be available in full-text. See your Librarian for help in locating those that are not.

Edit your Google Scholar Settings to also retrieve articles available through the Ivy Tech Library databases. Links in the the right-hand column of your search results will indicate articles available through the Ivy Tech Library