Best for finding primary research articles. Remember when you are constructing your search to click on peer-reviewed articles, limit to Publication Date: After 2010, and limit to Age Group: birth -12.
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
Google Scholar searches for both books and articles, so you will need to limit to articles and limit by date.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Once you set your institutional preferences, links to full-text, if available at Penn State, should appear.
What is a Research Article?
A research article is a journal article in which the author/s have conducted a research experiment of their own, they are not reporting on research done by others or giving their opinion or arguing for a particular policy.