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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 2,197,823 datasets (Apr 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
- an efficient research tool for European and international psychological literature
- a multilingual, familiar and user-friendly search interface
- state-of-the-art search engine technology
- access to records not covered in commercial international databases
- free access to an expanding range of international databases.
Databases included:
PSYNDEX
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 Records in PubPsych
PSYNDEX includes 428,203 literature and test records in Apr 2024 (yearly grow approximately 12,000 records). All of the records are included in PubPsych.
Coverage Period
- Literature & Audiovisual Media: since 1977 more than 400,000 literature records, including over 2,900 descriptions of audiovisual media
- Tests: since 1945 more than 8,500 test records
Psychological Topics Covered
- Literature & Audiovisual Media: psychology, including aspects of psychiatry, medicine, education, sociology, sport, linguistics, business management, criminology relevant for psychology
- Tests: psychology, education
Updates
- Literature & Audiovisual Media: weekly
- Tests: biannually
PASCAL
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 Records in PubPsych
PASCAL contains more than 17 million records in total, of which PubPsych extracts 206,670 psychology relevant records (Apr 2024). The psychological topics covered in PASCAL are psychology, psychophysiology, psychoanalysis, psychopathology, psychiatry, neuropharmacology.
Coverage Period
Literature is covered back to 1973.
Updates
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
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 Records in PubPsych
ISOC-Psicología contains 51,397 records (annual growth: 1,400 records). All of those records are included in PubPsych (Apr 2024).
Coverage Period
Literature is covered back to 1975
Psychological Topics Covered
ISOC-Psicología covers topics throughout the whole area of psychology and its related disciplines.
Updates
The production is discontinued.
MEDLINE®
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® Records in PubPsych
MEDLINE® contains over 25 million references in total, of which PubPsych extracts 1,243,255 psychology
relevant records (Apr 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.
Coverage Period
Literature is generally covered from 1946 to the present.
Updates
weekly
ERIC
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 Records in PubPsych
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 (Apr 2024). This includes records with the subject of psychology or related psychological subjects like 'Psychological Studies', as well as 'Psycholinguistic' or 'Psychopathology'.
Coverage Period
Records are covered back to 1966.
Updates
quarterly
NARCIS
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 Records in PubPsych
NARCIS contains more than 1.3 million records in total, of which PubPsych extracts 115,987 psychology relevant records (Apr 2024). Approximately half of those records are open-access publications.
Coverage Period
Publications are covered back to 1907.
Updates
As of 3 July 2023, the NARCIS website was taken offline and the NARCIS service ended.
NORART
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 Records in PubPsych
NORART covers more than 605,000 records in total, of which PubPsych extracts 13,840 psychology relevant records (Apr 2024).
Coverage Period
Literature is covered back to 1980.
Updates
The production is discontinued.
PsychOpen
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.
PsychOpen Records in PubPsych
Of the full-texts published on PsychOpen, 2,575 publications (Apr 2024) are included in PubPsych.
Coverage Period
Literature is covered back to 2005.
Psychological Topics Covered
PsychOpen publications cover all fields of psychology.
Updates
on demand
PsychData
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 Records in PubPsych
PsychData currently includes more than 41 million data points from 178 data sets from 77 studies. All 77 studies are included in PubPsych (Apr 2024).
Coverage Period
PsychData started collecting research data in 2002.
Psychological Topics Covered
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.
Updates
on demand
Background Pictures
Background pictures of PubPsych by courtesy of ZPID staff members.