You will need your SPSCC email and password to access these databases. APA PsycArticles is probably best but you can look in the other 3 if you don't find what you need.

• APA PsycArticles (EBSCO)
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO)
• Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
• Research Library (Proquest)

Scholarly articles are written by professors and usually undergo a rigorous review process by a committee of their peers before they can be published.

Example would be: Journal of Social Psychology

Traits of scholarly journals:

• Authors have advanced degrees (PhD preferable, Master's ok too)
• Usually no color or advertising
• Technical jargon
• Lengthy articles
• Authors cite their sources (list of references)
• Charts and graphs
• Purpose is to further knowledge in the field
• Audience is other scholars

The magazine Psychology Today is NOT a scholarly journal. In fact, no magazine or newspaper is a scholarly peer reviewed journal.

How to narrow to scholarly on PsycArticles: