PsycINFO
Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports in the field of psychology.
OneSearch (EBSCO EDS - Proxied)
OneSearch (EBSCO Discovery Service) searches most of Robertson Library's licensed content in a single search.
If you bookmarked a page or copied the URL from OneSearch/EBSCOhost and find it has expired, sometimes, but not always, it's possible to recreate a working link from a bad one. If it's possible, this tool will do it.
(The link from here also will expire, so be sure to update your bookmark with the permalink!)
Paste a broken EBSCO URL, then press Enter and hope for the best:
Canadian Business & Current Affairs
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) Complete, includes Education and Business in a single search.
Proquest's Guide to CBCA (note the tabs along the top for different parts of the guide)
ERIC (EBSCOhost)
Provides access to education literature and resources. Contains 1.3 million+ records and links to 323,000+ fulltext documents from ERIC back to 1966.
MEDLINE (via EBSCOhost)
Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.
Annual Review of Psychology
Summarizes and critically reviews the best work in all areas of psychology. Tables of Contents are provided 1950-1995; full text is available 1996-.
Academic Collection Complete (Proquest)
Search/browse the UPEI Proquest Ebook Central e-book collection.
Use the Catalogue to find all e-books available at UPEI.
Dissertations & Theses @ University of Prince Edward Island
This Proquest database contains citations, abstracts, and the full text of dissertations and theses published at UPEI after 1996.
UPEI also provides free access to many of its theses in full text through its own institutional repository, IslandScholar .
For finding non UPEI dissertations, see also Proquest Open Access Dissertations and Theses and Open Access Theses and Dissertations (both of these are worldwide search tools, not just for UPEI theses)
ERIC via the U.S. Dept of Education
Provides citations back to 1966. Most documents issued from 1993-present are freely available online.
Ingenta
Contains citations to research articles from over 13,500 scholarly & popular journals. Coverage includes the humanities, social sciences & science.
Oxford Academic
Oxford journals (about 240) and ebooks purchased from Oxford. This does NOT include the Oxford English Dictionary which is on its own platform.
PsycARTICLES
Provides full text articles in the field of psychology. Includes the articles from approximately 80 journals published by APA & allied organizations.
PubMed
Comprises over 21 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals & online books.
SAGE Premier Collection
Full text of over 600 journals published by SAGE in the fields of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Technology, and Medicine.
ScienceDirect
Provides full text to peer-reviewed journals from Elsevier Science, including a large number of journals in the life sciences.
Springer LINK
Contains over 1,900 full text electronic journals from the areas of science, technology, medicine, engineering, environment, economics, and law.
Web of Science (Backfile)
Backfile thru December 2009 for Web of Science (WOS) Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) & Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)
Why just the backfile? See the Web of Science Subscription 2010 .
Wiley Online
Wiley Online is a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. The Library subscribes to a large subset of the journals published by Wiley, but not all of them. As of Winter 2019, the Library also provides access to over 20,000 Wiley ebooks, which is most but not all of them. The Library is unable to provide access to Wiley Textbooks.
Browse the list of Wiley journals available through UPEI (also includes older Blackwell titles, which Wiley bought)
Gale OneFile: Psychology
Psychology provides access to academic journals and magazines that cover the study of emotions, personality, and the human mind. The database offers content of interest to both researchers and general users.
Description provided by the database publisher, Gale/Cengage
Semantic Scholar
Semantic Scholar is a free database of millions of scholarly publications in the fields of computer science and neuroscience. Most of the indexed content is open access, although some content may require use of Interlibrary Loan to get the full text.
As a joint project of Microsoft, Google, and Baidu, it offers a significantly more sophisticated search engine than Google Scholar for these fields including advanced filters designed specifically for those knowledge domains.
Academic Videos Online (AVON)
Over 60,000 academic videos, including the Nursing Education Collection.
Alexander Street Press is a division of Proquest.
Psychotherapy.net
A collection of 100 videos relating to clinical psychology practice, selected by the UPEI Clinical Psychology faculty from the larger set available on that platform.
To provide feedback about the selected videos, or to request other videos, please contact the Library.
Sage Research Methods
SAGE Research Methods supports beginning and advanced researchers in every step of a research project, from writing a research question, choosing a method, gathering and analyzing data, to writing up and publishing the findings. With information on the full range of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods for the social and behavioral sciences, as well as many methods commonly used in the hard sciences, the book, reference, and journal content in SAGE Research Methods—from SAGE’s renowned methods publishing program— and advanced features help researchers of all levels conduct their research.
The Library has purchased two of the components of this large suite of online products, plus the Core package of books and journals:
Content of the Core:
"Little Green Books" - quantitative methods
"Little Blue Books" - qualitative methods
Videos - 83 videos about research methods
Methods Maps - Explore the research methods terrain, read definitions of key terminology, and discover content relevant to your research methods journey.
Project Planner - Find all you need to know to plan your research project
"Which Stats" Test - Choose an appropriate statistical method using this straightforward tool
UPEI will get access to new content added annually to the Core through 2027, typically 50+ items per year.
Sage Research Methods Foundations
SAGE Research Methods Foundations is a large series of extended articles/short books edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams. It is the perfect companion for novice researchers and provides bite-size, introductory overviews to all the major methods topics to help get you on your way. The entries give introductory overviews to major research methods, covering their history, development and critical debates surrounding them.
Some examples of topics covered include:
Item Response Theory
Analysing Administrative Data
Case-Based Methods
Case Study
Content Analysis, Quantitative
Critical Discourse Analysis
Agent Based Models
Analysis of Proportions
Analysis of Rare Events
ANOVA and ANCOVA
Archiving Qualitative Data
Arts-Based Research
Autobiography
Autoethnography
Bayesian Statistics
Bibliometric Indicators
See also: SRM Videos: Practical Research and Academic Skills , SRM main page with Core information
SAGE Research Methods Video: Practical Research and Academic Skills
This collection of over 450 streaming videos on the SAGE Research Methods platform offers support on the practical skills that you need to successfully complete your research. Key areas such as writing a research proposal, planning and designing a research project, and securing ethical approval are explicitly covered. Practical skills such as project management, writing for publication, presenting work, and building networks are also presented through helpful explanatory videos. This video collection will give you the confidence to successfully navigate your research, take responsibility for your professional development and identify the transferable skills needed to progress your careers.
Topics covered in the videos include:
Project Management
Writing a research proposal
Securing ethical approval
Writing for publication
Computer applications
Applied research
Research careers & building networks
Presenting at conferences
Building Networks
and many more topics
There are more research methods videos in the SRM Core package
Scopus
Scopus provides broad indexing and citation coverage of academic journals, books and conference proceedings published worldwide. Delivering a comprehensive overview ofresearch output in the fields of science, engineering, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Access the Elsevier Scopus guide for information about searching.
Coming soon: the UPEI librarians are developing a own localized scopus advanced search tips guide .
If you want to search for publications by UPEI authors, you can add these pieces to your Advanced search:
AF-ID ( "University of Prince Edward Island" 60007655 ) = UPEI (except AVC)
AF-ID("University of Prince Edward Island Atlantic Veterinary College" 60005845) = Atlantic Veterinary College