Website Evaluation - psycINFO

psycINFO is a helpful site when it comes to psychology research papers. It is made by ProQuest and it has a extensive database which ranges information from books, journals, dissertations, and etc. Also, they have records dated as far as the 1700’s. The best thing about psycINFO is their advanced search engine. It breaks the search engine down into different parts so it can narrow down to the things you’re looking for. When you’re writing your research paper, you are most likely focusing on a specific group such as a certain race, gender, or even age. psycINFO has these options included as it is helpful when you are looking for a certain experimental group. Another good feature is that the site is compatible with other languages so it is not needed to know English to maneuver this database. One of the best parts of using this website is that it has a thesaurus which pulls research papers that have terms that are similar to the search word. When looking through the records, you can just press the checkbox for the records you’re interested in because the website instantly saves it for you so it is easier to look back. To retrieve these marked records, there’s a tab in the upper right hand corner that is labeled as “marked records” where it has the records that you have marked. This is easier for the user as it can save the time of having multiple tabs out or copy and pasting the URLs to Notepad. Overall, the online database is easy to navigate and their search engine is efficient in narrowing things down to show relevant results.

Helpful Links:
psycINFO’s useful thesaurus that brings in results that also relate to your search word:
http://csaweb110v.csa.com.proxy.binghamton.edu/ids70/thesaurus.php?SID=70emdm2g6217sslvmf69vq2b67

psycINFO advanced search engine which helps narrowing it down when you are looking for a specific studies such as females or people who are in their 20’s:
http://csaweb110v.csa.com.proxy.binghamton.edu/ids70/advanced_search.php?SID=70emdm2g6217sslvmf69vq2b67&tab_collection_id=0

psycINFO’s funding section - a complied database of available opportunities for any kind of funding (ex: scholarships, grants) so it is definitely helpful when you are looking for funding for your research:
http://csaweb110v.csa.com.proxy.binghamton.edu/ids70/advanced_search.php?adv_search_tab=funding&SID=70emdm2g6217sslvmf69vq2b67

Work Cited:
psycINFO Online Database. ProQuest. . 27 September 2010.