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PubPsych is a free information retrieval system for psychological resources. It offers a comprehensive and balanced selection of resources from a growing number of international databases with a European focus, covering the needs of academic and professional psychologists.
PubPsych includes 2,188,350 datasets (Mar 2024) and offers, where available, full-text linking, links to additional information and link resolving.
PubPsych aims to enhance the visibility of European and international psychological literature and thus provides
Databases included:
PSYNDEX is the most comprehensive reference and abstract database (not full-text) of psychological literature, audiovisual media, intervention programs, and psychometric tests from the German-speaking countries. PSYNDEX is produced by the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) in Trier, Germany.
PSYNDEX includes 426,972 literature and test records in Mar 2024 (yearly grow approximately 12,000 records). All of the records are included in PubPsych.
PASCAL covers the core scientific literature in Science, Technology and Medicine with special emphasis on European literature. Because of its multidisciplinary coverage, PASCAL is especially useful when searching for documents on a topic at the interface between several disciplines and seldom covered in specialized databases. Several national and international specialized research organizations contribute to the PASCAL database.
PASCAL contains more than 17 million records in total, of which PubPsych extracts 206,670 psychology relevant records (Mar 2024). The psychological topics covered in PASCAL are psychology, psychophysiology, psychoanalysis, psychopathology, psychiatry, neuropharmacology.
Literature is covered back to 1973.
Since 2015 the psychological part of PASCAL is no longer maintained. A last update with records from 2014 and 2015 was included in March 2016.
ISOC-Psicología is a segment of the ISOC Database on Social Sciences and Humanities one of three bibliographic databases produced by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) since 1971. It focuses on articles in the field of psychology and its related disciplines.
ISOC-Psicología contains 51,397 records (annual growth: 1,400 records). All of those records are included in PubPsych (Mar 2024).
Literature is covered back to 1975
ISOC-Psicología covers topics throughout the whole area of psychology and its related disciplines.
The production is discontinued.
MEDLINE® is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 25 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE® is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®). MEDLINE® is the primary component of PubMed®, part of the Entrez series of databases provided by the NLM National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
MEDLINE® contains over 25 million references in total, of which PubPsych extracts 1,235,013 psychology
relevant records (Mar 2024). The collection for PubPsych includes the psychological subset
of MEDLINE®/PubMed® database from the NLM (National Library of Medicine). All
records with 'Psychology' or 'psychological' in MeSH Major Topic have been
selected. If there are no MeSH, a combination of 'Psychology' in journal title, keywords and qualifier is taken. All articles in a journal, currently indexed in MEDLINE®, with a broad subject term of psychology or psychotherapy or behavioral sciences are selected and incorporated in PubPsych. (NLM Catalog list)
The data selected do not reflect the most current/accurate data available from NLM.
Literature is generally covered from 1946 to the present.
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ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
ERIC provides unlimited access to more than 1.6 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added multiple times per week. The collection for PubPsych contains 135,818 psychology relevant records from ERIC with the string 'psycho' in the subject heading (Mar 2024). This includes records with the subject of psychology or related psychological subjects like 'Psychological Studies', as well as 'Psycholinguistic' or 'Psychopathology'.
Records are covered back to 1966.
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NARCIS provides access to scientific information, including (open access) publications from the repositories of all the Dutch universities, KNAW, NWO and a number of research institutes, datasets from the DANS and 3TU.Datacentrum archives as well as descriptions of research projects, researchers and research institutes.
NARCIS contains more than 1.3 million records in total, of which PubPsych extracts 115,987 psychology relevant records (Mar 2024). Approximately half of those records are open-access publications.
Publications are covered back to 1907.
As of 3 July 2023, the NARCIS website was taken offline and the NARCIS service ended.
NORART is the Norwegian and Nordic index to periodical articles and covers all subject fields (from Norwegian and some Nordic periodicals and yearbooks). NORART is produced by the National Library of Norway.
NORART covers more than 605,000 records in total, of which PubPsych extracts 13,840 psychology relevant records (Mar 2024).
Literature is covered back to 1980.
The production is discontinued.
PsychOpen, the European Open-Access Publishing Platform for Psychology, publishes open-access content in the field of psychology on behalf of professional bodies, institutions and learned societies to foster the visibility of psychological research.
Of the full-texts published on PsychOpen, 2,575 publications (Mar 2024) are included in PubPsych.
Literature is covered back to 2005.
PsychOpen publications cover all fields of psychology.
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PsychData, the Center for Research Data in Psychology documents and long-term archives research data from all areas of psychology and the social sciences, using specially created metadata and provides use of the data for scientific purposes such as secondary analysis and reanalysis.
PsychData currently includes more than 41 million data points from 178 data sets from 77 studies. All 77 studies are included in PubPsych (Mar 2024).
PsychData started collecting research data in 2002.
PsychData covers all areas of psychology, in particular data sets from clinical, developmental, educational, gero-, and work and organizational psychology stemming from longitudinal studies, major surveys, and test development.
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Background pictures of PubPsych by courtesy of ZPID staff members.