Neuroscience and Behavior Research Guide
Databases

Online databases and periodical indexes help you search for full-text articles or article citations in Neuroscience and Behavior. Available on Library computers to all. Available off campus to UMass Amherst students, faculty, staff, and affiliates with an OIT account; enter your OIT username and password when prompted.

Suggested Neuroscience and Behavior databases and periodical indexes follow. (See Research Databases for the Library's complete database list.)

Primary Databases

Animal Behavior Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts journal articles, significant papers, and field and laboratory research on animal behavior, including neurophysiology, behavioral ecology, genetics, and applied ethology. Time period covered: 2006 to present.

CogNet Library
A "searchable collection of books, journals, reference works, OpenCourseWare links and conference materials" relevant to the brain and cognitive sciences.

Web of Science
Contains the 3 citation indexes to scholarly journals, searchable by topics, authors, etc., and also searchable by cited references. Science Citation Index covers the sciences, including neuroscience, biochemistry, pediatrics, biology, pharmacology, biotechnology, chemistry, computer science, psychiatry, surgery, medicine, and zoology. Time period covered: 1900 to present.

Other Databases

Academic Search Premier
Citations, abstracts and full text articles from scholarly and general-interest periodicals relating to social sciences, humanities, education, physical, and biological sciences. Time period covered: 1975 to present.

Dissertations and Theses | User's guide
Citations and abstracts of doctoral and some masters theses, mostly completed at colleges and universities of the United States and Canada. Includes full text of recent (1997-) UMass Amherst dissertations, and the first 24 pages of recent dissertations from other institutions. Time period covered: 1861 to present.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Articles from scholarly and general-interest periodicals relating to the humanities, social sciences, and non-technical general sciences, 1980-present.

Google Scholar Beta
A search engine for locating scholarly material on the internet. Use within UMass’ IP range to access UMass online journal subscriptions.

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Articles, with bibliographies, from experts on all aspects of the social sciences. Current.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Full-text information about and reviews of psychological and educational tests, 1916-present.

PrimateLit | Vendor's Database Guide
Provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) on nonhuman primates. Time period covered: 1940 to present. Click here for public access version.

PsycArticles
Contains more than 120,000 articles from 60 journals, including the 49 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA). Time period covered: 1894 to present.

WorldCat | Vendor's Database Guide
The combined catalogs of most U.S. libraries. Material not owned by UMass Amherst can usually be borrowed through interlibrary loan.