Using PsycINFO

Step 4: Viewing & Accessing Results

Viewing Search Results

Scroll down the search page to see the results of your most recent search.

The first search result for a PsycINFO search

Clicking on an article’s title will take you to its record, which includes more details about the article. Reading the abstract can help you decide whether the article is relevant, and looking at the Subject Headings can give you ideas of more terms to add to your search.

An article record in PsycINFO, with the abstract and subject headings circled

Accessing Articles

There are two common ways you may be able to access articles. Sometimes the full text is available within PsycINFO; if so, there is a “Full Text” link next to the article in the search results and in the article’s record.

One search result in PsycINFO, with the "Full Text" link on the right side of the page circled

If there is no Full Text link, click on the green “Get It @ UAlberta” button, which will often take you directly to an online version of the article. If there are multiple databases where you can access that article, the Get It button will open a page that shows all of the access options, and you can click on any of them to view the article:

A page that shows two different databases for accessing an aritcle, with links to them highlighted in yellow.

If you have trouble accessing an article, please feel free to ask us for help.


The next section will show you how to save your PsycINFO search history.

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