PsycINFO is a group of databases of articles and other materials that pertain to psychology. You can search for materials by author, by keywords, by journal, etc. Thus, PsycINFO is an extremely useful tool when youre doing a literature search for the introduction of a paper or whenever you want to learn something about a topic in psychology. Moreover, you can typically get a more current picture of the state of the field by going directly to the original journal articles and book chapters, rather than to a textbook. In sum, knowing how to use PsycINFO is a useful skill.To access PsycINFO, do the following:Note that when a particular author is named, that person neednt be the only author.If you are on campus but you want to avoid being charged for printing, you can email each reference to yourself and print them out on your home printer. You can also copy and paste each reference from PsycINFO into a word-processing document, thereby saving a LOT of paper..