The Chicago School Library: Applied Behavior Analysis: Journal Articles

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The 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 over 3 million 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 around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.
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The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, education-related conference papers, citations for over 4 million articles including book reviews and over 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests.

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This database offers full-text articles for journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals. Many titles go back to volume 1, issue 1.
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Broad coverage in the field of education, including assessment and testing. Coverage includes abstracts, citations, and full text.

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A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. Search results can be sorted in order of Times Cited to see the most important articles first. This is not a Full Text Database. Some items covered by this database are not currently available in full text but may be requested through inter-library loan.
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Offers an unprecedented multidisciplinary collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes.
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How to Search Multiple ABA Journals at Once

To search more than one ABA journal at the same time, use the PsycINFO database, as it indexes most ABA journals.

In PsycINFO, use the drop down menu in the Advanced Search and choose "Publication Title"

Next, type the journals you want to search, putting OR in between each title:

Finally, add keywords or limiters to your search as needed.