A common question in reference comes from psychology students who need to find an article that reports on the results of an empirical study. I’ve put together an annotated screenshot on the Psychology research guide that shows you how to use the Methodology limiter in PsycINFO to find articles tagged with “Empirical Study.”
The methodology limiters have a lot of other goodies. In addition to the Literature Review one that I mentioned in an earlier blog post), there are ones for:
- Clinical case study
- Longitudinal study
- Treatment Outcome/Clinical Trial
For more, see the “APA Databases Methodology Field Values” page.