Journals and databases

ProQuest Standard

(Please note, you must be already logged into the APS website with your member login in order to access the online databases.)

Members have free online access to ProQuest Psychology Journals, a database featuring thousands of international journals covering scientific literature relevant to psychology. Members can also subscribe to the MEDLINE database, covering all major clinical and healthcare disciplines. These databases provide members with access to thousands of international journals, covering the broad discipline of psychology, as well as the major clinical and healthcare disciplines. 

Create a ‘My Research’ Account

Members can elect to search across either or both databases and are encouraged to set up a ‘My Research’ account within ProQuest to experience some of the advanced functionality of the service, such as research and journal alerts, emailed table of contents, and saved search histories. These facilities enable psychologists to keep informed of the latest research published in their field and contribute to their continued professional development. In addition, there is an extensive online Help facility for guidance. 

To create a ‘My Research’ account, please log into the APS website and select the yellow ‘Access databases’ button that will appear to the left beneath the ProQuest logo. From within the ProQuest website, you can then select the ‘My Research and Language Selection’ option (the person icon menu) from the top right of the ProQuest website and select ‘Sign into My Research’. You will then be provided with the option to create a My Research account or to sign in as an existing user. 

Read more about the benefits of a ‘My Research’ account.

Feedback and assistance

The APS welcomes feedback on the features of the ProQuest Psychology Journals and MEDLINE databases. Please send any feedback to the National Office Science and Education Team at science@psychology.org.au, or (03) 8662 3300.

ProQuest Premium

All members have access to ProQuest Standard as part of the base APS membership. This includes access to the ProQuest Psychology Journals database, which provides full-text access to one of the largest online psychological literature databases, comprising over 750 international journals. The journals include a broad range of topics across the discipline and profession of psychology and related fields.

For $25 per year, members can choose to upgrade to ProQuest Premium, which includes MEDLINE databases as well as the ProQuest Psychology Journals database. The MEDLINE database includes full-text access to journals covering all major clinical and healthcare disciplines. MEDLINE is the journal citation database of the United States National Library of Medicine, providing over 21 million references to biomedical and life sciences journal articles and citations from over 5,600 scholarly journals published around the world.

As of February 2017 and for the remainder of the 2016-17 subscription year, existing members will automatically be able to access ProQuest Premium.

ATTENTION APS MEMBERS: If you are seeking to subscribe to the ProQuest Premium database and/or purchase additional journals, the online subscription system is currently unavailable. Subscription payments to journals and databases can be made through the membership renewal process. Alternatively, please contact us by email at membership@psychology.org.au and an APS staff member will manually process your subscription request.

Australian Journal of Psychology

The Australian Journal of Psychology covers the entire spectrum of psychological research and receives articles on all topics within the broad scope of the discipline.

The journal publishes reports of experimental and service studies, including reports of qualitative investigations, on pure and applied topics in the field of psychology. It also publishes occasional reviews of specific topics, theoretical pieces and commentaries on methodological issues.

Occasionally, special issues devoted to a single topic, and guest edited by a specialist editor, are published.

The APS publishes the journal, which is issued four times a year.

Information on submissions

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Australian Psychologist

The Australian Psychologist is concerned with a wide spectrum of clinical and applied issues, spanning from directly clinical matters including therapy and assessment through to issues of the workplace and the wider society.

The journal includes sections on both theoretical interpretation of clinical and applied nature as well as contemporary literature reviews and essays on matters of general relevance to psychologists.

The APS publishes the journal, which is issued six times a year.

Information on submissions

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Clinical Psychologist

The Clinical Psychologist publishes material of applied and professional interest to clinical psychologists. The APS publishes the journal, which is issued three times a year.

Information on submissions

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Australasian Journal of Organisational Psychology (AJOP)

Australasian Journal of Organisational Psychology (AJOP) is a half-yearly, professional journal of the APS College of Organisational Psychologists. It publishes and encourages material of professional interest for members of the College, other organisational practitioners and consultants.

Prior to 2014, this journal was called the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Organisational Psychology.

Information on submissions

Educational and Developmental Psychologist

The Educational and Developmental Psychologist is a peer-reviewed journal of The Australian Psychological Society College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists. The journal publishes psychological research that makes a substantial contribution to the knowledge and practice of education and developmental psychology. The broad aims are to provide a vehicle for dissemination of research that is of national and international significance to the researchers, practitioners and students of educational and developmental psychology.

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The Australian Community Psychologist

The Australian Community Psychologist publishes work that is of relevance to community psychology practitioners and researchers and others interested in the field. Local and national manuscripts may be published, and submissions by emerging researchers and practitioners are encouraged. The journal features contributions that are state of the art reviews of professional and applied areas, and reviews and essays on matters of general relevance to community psychologists, in addition to empirical research reports relevant to community psychologists. The journal also features individual manuscripts and collections of manuscripts addressing matters of general, professional and public relevance, techniques and approaches in psychological practice, professional development issues, professional and public policy issues, and reviews of books that relate directly to the major areas of practice in community psychology.

Information on submissions