Overviews
- Human Sexuality at Credo ReferenceCredo Reference background page for human sexuality.
- The International Encyclopedia of Human SexualityEncyclopedia access by Credo.
Psychology Databases
- Gale OneFile: PsychologyFind authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Scholarly publications concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. (Some full-text)
Health Studies Databases
- CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete provides broad content coverage including 50 nursing specialties, speech and language pathology, nutrition, general health and medicine and more.
- Gale OneFile: Health and MedicineFind up-to-date information on a range of health care topics. Best for students, researchers, and health care professionals. Articles on fitness, pregnancy, medicine, nutrition, diseases, public health, occupational health & safety, alcohol and drug abuse, HMOs, prescription drugs, etc. (Some full-text)
- Medline
Covers all areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing. (Bibliographic; some links to full-text)
- PubMed
PubMed comprises millions of citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
Multi-Subject Databases
You can find articles and studies related to psychology and human sexuality in these more general databases.
- Academic Search Complete
This scholarly collection offers full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: animal science, anthropology, astronomy, chemistry, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, science, geography, law, mathematics, music, health sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and many other fields.
- Gale Academic OneFileQuickly access articles from a database of scholarly journals and other trusted periodicals. Best for academic research.
- ProQuest Research Library
A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text). Learn to Use ProQuest Research Library
- SciTech Premium Collection
Resources for the natural sciences, technology, material science, and engineering. The SciTech Premium Collection provides thousands of full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. Primarily full-text.
Keywords
Here are some keywords you can try when you are searching databases for articles about aspects of human sexuality.
More general words
- Human behavior
- Human sexuality
- Social psychology
- Sociobiology
More specific words
- Dating
- Femininity
- Homosexuality
- Interpersonal attraction
- Masculinity
- Mate selection
- Pornography
- Seduction
- Sex
- Sex workers
- Sexual orientation
- Transgender people
- Violence
Related words
- Adolescent
- Attitudes
- Evolution
- Gender
- Love
- Pleasure
- Sexology
- Shame
Search tips
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Check the box for "academic" or "peer-reviewed" articles