How to Access Library’s Databases?

On Campus
 Enter web address: http://www.lib.subr.edu
 Click on Electronic Library
 Click on Databases
 Click on All Databases
 Scroll down to the database you want

Off Campus
 Enter web address: http://www.lib.subr.edu
 Click on Electronic Library
 Click on Databases
 Click on All Databases
 Scroll down to the database you want
 Click on Off Campus
 The pop-up page will prompt you for your User ID and Password
 Enter User ID: 9 digit ss#
 Enter Password: changeme
 Change from Baton Rouge Community College to SUBR
 Click on Authenticate

Note: Before you will try to access library’s databases from off campus site make sure that John B. Cade Library’s Circulation Desk has your user information in their system. You can update your user information by stopping by the circulation desk. You will have to do that in person!

Additionally, make sure that you disable pop-up blocker on your browser.

However, if you still will experience problems accessing databases after updating your user information, please, call Reference Department at 771-2875 or Systems and Technology Office at 771-4934.
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7 Best Databases for Research in Psychology

1. PsycINFO provides indexing coverage of all document types, including journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports. The database is international in scope, covering the academic, research, and practice literature in psychology as well as relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior.


2. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection indexes articles on a wide variety of topics in psychology, including therapy and treatments, abnormal psychology, psychiatry, child and adolescent psychology and more. This database indexes nearly 500 scholarly journals and magazines and provides some full text for all of them.


3. Academic Search Premier* is a multidisciplinary database that indexes articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. This database contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.


4. Business Source Complete* is scholarly business database, provides comprehensive coverage of scholarly, peer-reviewed business journals dating back to 1886, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.


5. Business Source Premier* is comprehensive, peer-reviewed, scholarly research database, providing full-text, indexing and abstracts in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, as well as country economic reports and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.


6. JSTOR* is a trusted archive of important scholarly journals. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines. JSTOR maintains both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections such as Arts and Sciences, Business, Ecology and Botany, General Science, Language and Literature, Mathematics and Statistics, and Music.


7.SocINDEX with Full Text* is the world’s most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database, extensive in scope and content providing comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study, including abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.


Note*: Although these databases are not dedicated entirely to psychology and psychology related fields, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Complete, Business Source Premier, JSTOR, and SocINDEX with Full Text provide access to extensive, peer-previewed psychology journal collections. (Ex.: Work & Stress, Thinking & Reasoning, Systems Research & Behavioral Sciences, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Psychology Today, Psychological Science, Psychological Research, Psychological Record, Psychological Injury, Political Psychology, Personnel Psychology, etc.)

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