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PsycINFO
PsycINFO enables comprehensive cited reference searching beginning in 2001 with some partial previous coverage (details at http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/psycinfo/cited-references.aspx).
From: Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (Fourth Edition), 2018
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Kristi Alexander, Michael C. Roberts, in Comprehensive Clinical Psychology, 1998
1.03.3.1.2 PsycLIT
PsycLIT is the database with which most individuals are familiar. Although PsycLIT and PsycINFO are frequently used interchangeably, there are significant differences between the two. As previously described, PsycINFO is an on-line database; in contrast, PsycLIT is a CD-ROM database derived from the PsycINFO database, that contains references for journals, book chapters, and books only. Contained within two compact discs, this reference, updated quarterly, comprises three separate databases: (i) journal references from 1974 through 1989, (ii) journal references from 1990 to the present, and (iii) books and book chapters from 1987 to the present. Each entrant includes a bibliographic citation, an abstract, and, for journal articles, index words. The indexing is included to allow similar articles to be selected from the database. Book and chapter records include comparable information, with the addition of the table of contents for books.
To find references on this CD-ROM version of the Psychological Abstracts, keywords are entered. As previously discussed, the use of Boolean modifiers is necessary. There are several support systems that make PsycLIT very user-friendly including an "on-disc" Thesaurus, a tutorial, a videotape entitled "How to Search PsycLIT on CD-ROM," several user's manuals from PsycINFO, and a toll free number to the PsycINFO Actionline ([800] 374–2722) (APA, 1996).
Similarly, the ClinPSYC CD-ROM database offers a reduced set of abstracts specifically chosen for their relevance to practitioners and interested others in clinical psychology, behavioral medicine, and related fields. Because of the reduced volume of entries, the ClinPSYC database is much less expensive and may be useful for smaller institutions and organizations.
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Informational Sources in Clinical Psychology☆
K. Alexander, ... M.C. Roberts, in Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, 2017
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
In addition to PsycINFO, another large online database that produces a variety of products that may be relevant to clinical psychologists is ERIC. This national information system, established in 1966, provides access to the large body of education-related resources. In 2002, ERIC became part of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) at the U.S. Department of Education (ERIC, 2015).
As with PsycINFO, ERIC offers a range of services, although a primary function is the maintenance of a national bibliographic database of over 1.5 million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum guides, dissertations, theses, and books that are education-related. While there is considerable overlap with the material covered by PsycINFO, ERIC does include references for unpublished research that is not usually available from other sources, such as papers presented at professional conferences and studies conducted by school districts. The ERIC database can be accessed via a government-sponsored Website (http://eric.ed.gov). As with PsycINFO, ERIC provides a thesaurus that should be consulted before beginning a search.
Clinical psychologists interested in references for child development, education, testing and evaluation research may find references within the ERIC database. Nevertheless, for many other clinical topics, such as psychological disorders and treatment, PsycINFO products would be a preferable resource. For example, while a PsycINFO search with the keyword "pica" resulted in 587 references, the same search performed on ERIC generated only 177 relevant references.
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Massage therapy research methods
Tiffany Field PhD, in Massage Therapy Research, 2006
SEARCHING THE INTERNET FOR ALREADY EXISTING LITERATURE
Medline (www.medline.cos.com) and PsycINFO (www.apa.org/psycinfo) are the best-known literature search programs on the internet for current medical/psychological research, including massage therapy research. Literature from earlier decades can serve as a source of good ideas for replication studies using more sophisticated methods, but as, typically, current publications feature references from the last decade, literature searches are usually confined to the last decade. Another useful source that can be accessed by the general public is PubMed (provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information) at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.