Database Comparison

Database 1

1- PsycARTICLES
2- Psychology
3- 1988 - present
4- Includes more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations.
5- No, it's authorized to AUC users and on-campus visitors only.
6- Yes, full text is available.

Databse 2

1- PsycInfo
2- Psychology
3- 1872-present
4- PsycInfo provides indexes to journals, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports, and other documents and they're updated weekly.
5- No, it's authorized to AUC users and on-campus visitors only.
6- Some full text is available to selected journals.

The two databases are useful, but I would prefer to use the PsycARTICLES database much more than the PsycInfo database. They are both easier to use, but I noticed that PsycARTICLES offers full-text articles which seem better for researches and receiving more information about any specific topic. Some articles in PsycInfo had a 'click' on "Linksource for Full text" underneath the article, and then when finally opening a separate web page for this link, another website (sciencedirect.com) asked for a user name and password. It's much more time consuming to get information, and becomes annoying after a while. I would actually use PsycInfo for one reason only, and it is to pull information and articles from articles written over a hundred years ago. This database covers journals and article all the way from 1872 which is very helpful to get original text written by Charles Darwin or Freud. Definitely, I would use PsycARTICLES for most of my researches even though the the information on it is limited from 1988 until today. I would prefer that PsycInfo includes more full text articles, and turn the database into an enriched source of "full" information".