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Because it is so heavily used in research in the social and behavioral sciences, this book will emphasize PsycINFO. As mentioned, PsycINFO is a database of citations and summaries offered by the American Psychological Association.¹ The database covers journals, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and psychology-related disciplines such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing, education, sociology, anthropology, and linguistics. In December 2015, the number of records offered in PsycINFO surpassed 4 million (https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2015/12/psycinfo-database).

1For purposes of illustration here, PsycINFO is being accessed through EBSCOhost, an online reference database system. Your institution may use EBSCOhost or one of the other online reference database systems, such as OVID. The Web interface may have a different graphical presentation in these different database systems than the examples used here.

In PsycINFO, when you enter a keyword and click on the “Suggest Subject Terms” option, related terms appear, which might give you other ways to search for a topic of interest. For example, if you enter the search term “environmental psychology” and click on “Suggest Subject Terms,” pages of terms appear, presented in order of relevancy. Beneath the term “environmental psychology,” the next most relevant term is “ecological psychology” (see Figure 2.6).

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Figure 2.6 Screenshot of Suggested Subject Terms in PsycINFO

Source: PsycINFO®.