The major database for psychology, providing citations and abstracts for the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics.
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Scopus
Scholarly articles in all disciplines, including psychology. This database can also be used to identify articles that cite an author or article that you specify
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