This guide is for students enrolled in the M.A. in Organizational Leadership offered by the Department of Graduate Education, Leadership, & Counseling.
ERICThis link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive education database. Access provided by the New Jersey State Library.
Find the limiter for Empirical Articles
1. Click on Advanced Search
2. Find the Document type in the lower right and select, Reports- Research
PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo)This link opens in a new windowThe PsycInfo® database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
Subject: Psychology
1). In PsycInfo, click advanced search.
2) Under Methodology, use the CTRL key (PC) | Command key (MAC) while clicking your mouse to select the following: Clinical Trial, Empirical Study, and Treatment Outcome.
You can also limit after the search, by clicking on All filters, then selecting methodology from the box on the right side.
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1. Use Advanced Search
2. Select the box for Research Article
MEDLINEThis link opens in a new windowMEDLINE® provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree numbers, tree hierarchy and explosion capabilities to search abstracts from over 4,800 current biomedical journals. Included are citations from Index Medicus, International Nursing Index, Index to Dental Literature, HISTLINE, SPACELINE, PREMEDLINE®, AIDSLINE®, BIOETHICSLINE®, and HealthSTAR®. Premier Package customers will have instant access to full text for 1,750 journals indexed in MEDLINE (at no additional charge). Users of MEDLINE will be excited to learn that this is now a "full text database".
There are 2 ways to find empirical articles in Medline:
One technique is to limit your search results after you perform a search:
Type in your keywords and click on the "Search" button
To the left of your results, under "Article Types," check off the types of studies that interest you
Another alternative is to construct a more sophisticated search:
From PubMed's (link below) main screen, click on "Advanced" link underneath the search box
On the Advanced Search Builder screen type your keywords into the search boxes
Change one of the empty boxes from "All Fields" to "Publication Type"
To the right of Publication Type, click on "Show Index List" and choose a methodology that interests you. You can choose more than one by holding down the "Ctrl" or "⌘" on your keyboard as you click on each methodology
Click on the "Search" button
PubMedThis link opens in a new windowThe world's largest biomedical database, freely available on the Internet.
Since these are published in Scholarly Journals, limit to Academic, Scholarly, or Peer reviewed articles.
Then try adding this boolean phrase to your search empirical or study or studies.
This will help limit your results but does not guarantee that all articles will be empirical studies.