PsycINFO covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and the behavioural and social sciences.
PsycINFO covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and the behavioural and social sciences. It spans the literature to include the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, pharmacology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Produced by the American Psychological Association it covers the psychological literature from the 1800s to the present and currently features 4 million bibliographic records from more than 2,300 journal titles.
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