Watch the short video on searching the PsycARTICLES database by clicking the play button at the bottom of this page.
DIRECTIONS
Find scholarly articles on your topics in the library databases.
Go to www.ccm.edu/library and click on ARTICLES & DATABASES
Scroll down and click on the following database:
PsycARTICLES
Enter your Username and Password when prompted by the proxy server login box
Limit to Full text, enter your topic and search.
Example: Depression
From the results page, on the left, you may choose limiters, such as:
Publication Date = 2010 to 2020
Put a check in the box for "Peer-reviewed Journals"
Age = Adolescence
Methodology = Empirical Study
Optional: If you still have too many results, you can also choose a topic under the Subject limiter
Click on the Title of an article of interest
Note the Following Fields:
Authors & Affiliations
The Source (The name of the Journal that published this article)
The Abstract (Or summary of the article)
The Publication History (Submission, Revision and Publication Dates)
The Digital Object Identifier (or, DOI number, needed for the citation)
On the right side, click on the CITE icon for a DRAFT of an APA citation.
On the left side, look for the PDF of the full text article and click on it
From the Adobe Acrobat Reader page, read the article. Click the down arrow to save it to your computer or flash drive.