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Proquest PsychArticles: Resource of the week #43

What is it?
Proquest PsychArticles is a bibliographic database containing full-text articles for journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. It covers topics on psychology, behavioural science and mental health issues.

Key Features
The PsychArticles database is delivered via the Proquest platform and via HDAS. This offers you general functionality such as:

  • Basic and advanced searching options
  • Filter options to focus your search
  • Ability to save searches
  • Ability to export results

How can it help you?
This is a topic-specific database, providing access to the latest research in the psychology and mental health fields.

How to access it?
This database is only available to NHS users via their NHS Athens username. You search the database either via the Proquest database or via NHS/NICE HDAS (healthcare databases advanced search). For links to HDAS and Proquest please see the Healthcare Resources page on the Health Library website

More help?
You can find more help on using HDAS and how to conduct a literature search on our help page.

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