Searching A Database
If you are comfortable searching databases, or would like additional options, you can choose to search a database to identify a relevant article. To identify databases relevant to Psychology, look at database recommendations on the research guide for the program. Some example databases include PsycInfo, Scopus. You can also search freely available databases such as Google Scholar or PubMed.
Databases have Advanced Search options that allow you to create more detailed searches and expand relevant results. You can play with synonyms (like terms) to expand your results, using Boolean logic (AND, OR, NOT) in databases
You can also modify your search where necessary, making use of field-specific searching, e.g. searching for your terms more narrowly in specific parts of the article, e.g. abstract.
Take advantage of additional features in databases, which can help identify highly-cited research, specific types of research design, and other subsets of the literature
If the full-text of the article is not in the database, use the Check TMU Library links to find full-text, where available
Example of a search in PsycInfo - video embedded below:
