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This is a selected guide to resources on Psychology in the McFarlin Library collection. It is not a comprehensive list. It is intended to serve as a starting point for your research.

Approaches to Research

For information on how to do research in general, check Constructing a Research Paper.

Associations/Societies

American Psychiatric Association

"The American Psychiatric Association is a national medical specialty society whose 40,500 physician members specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional illnesses and substance use disorders."

American Psychoanalytic Association

"The American Psychoanalytic Association is a professional organization of psychoanalysts throughout the United States. The Association is comprised of Affiliate Societies and Training Institutes in many cities and has about 3,000 individual members.

American Psychological Association

"The American Psychological Association is the world's largest organization of psychologists. Since its founding, APA has been working toward the advancement of psychology as a science, a profession, and a means of promoting human welfare."

American Psychological Society (APS)

"The American Psychological Society was founded in 1988. Now nearly 15,000 members strong, it is the most active and rapidly growing scientific society in the world dedicated to advancing the best of scientific psychology in research, application, and the improvement of the human condition."

Society for Personality and Social Psychology

"SPSP is the main organization for personality and social psychology ..."

Bibliographies

A well-organized, carefully selected and annotated bibliography can lead you to the best and most relevant sources on your topic.  The following are available at  McFarlin Library:

Dictionaries/Encyclopedias

Encyclopedias and dictionaries are a good place to start when you need an overview of a subject or when you want a quick summary of basic ideas. They can also be used to  familiarize yourself with the vocabulary of the discipline. Encyclopedia articles are often followed by selected bibliographies or lists of references to other works. The following are available in McFarlin Library:

Dictionaries can help you to define unfamiliar terms as well as specialized usage within the professional literature.

 Finding Articles

Journal articles are important in your research. You should use periodical indexes to identify current journal and newspaper articles published in the professional and scholarly literature on topics relevant to your research project.  Indexes can be subject-specific for in-depth research or can be more general in nature.

Some indexes are in electronic format and others are in print format. All indexes provide a citation, many provide an abstract, and a few provide the full text of the article.  If the article is not available in full text, you must use the Library Catalog to find out if McFarlin Library subscribes to the journal that publishes the article you need.

To find out if McFarlin Library has a specific journal click on the Journals and Online Sources  link on the Libraries' Home Page and choose Journal Portal. Type the journal title in the Search box. If McFarlin subscribes to the journal, note the location and format of the periodical.  Back issues of periodicals might be found as a hard copy, on microfilm, or through an electronic format.   If McFarlin Library does not subscribe to the journal you need, you may request it through interlibrary loan.   

To find articles in psychology, search the following electronic indexes:

PsychINFO  via EBSCOhost

PsychINFO is an international index to journal articles, book chapters, dissertations and reports in psychology and related disciplines. It indexes over 1,300 journals in such fields as applied, educational, developmental, human and animal psychology, physical and psychological disorders and psychometrics. There are more than 1.5 million references to psychological literature from 45 countries.

PsycARTICLES via EBSCOhost

PsycARTICLES is a database featuring the full text of articles published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.

 

 

Academic Search Elite via EBSCOhost

Academic Search Elite provides full text for nearly 1,490 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,670 journals. Over 1,700 journals are peer reviewed.

MEDLINE  via EBSCOhost

Medline covers international biomedical literature published in all languages. It contains citations and abstracts of articles from more than 3,700 international journals, as well as chapters and books from selected monographs. It is an excellent source for citations in neuro-psychology and behavioral medicine.

Sociological Abstracts

 Sociological Abstracts contains citations to and abstracts of the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines from over 2,000 journals. Coverage also includes books, dissertations, conference proceedings, and reviews. It includes such fields as communications, counseling, crime, economics, education, philosophy, public policy, political science, religion, social psychology, and welfare.

SocINDEX with Full Text  via EBSCOhost

SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,660,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers.

To find articles in psychology, search the following electronic journals:

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

Publishes original experimental research that applies behavioral analysis to social problems. Articles may be searched full text since 1994.

Journal of Psychiatry Online

Electronic version of the print journal of the same name.

Psychiatry On-Line

"Psychiatry On-Line is the independent, free, peer-reviewed journal available purely on the World-Wide Web. Launched in 1994, it was the first electronic medical journal."

 Finding Books

To find books located in McFarlin Library, use the library's online catalog.   In addition to books, the Library Catalog allows you to search for periodicals, government documents, audiovisual material, and Special Collections.

Call number classifications for Psychology are:

Library materials for Psychology are listed on  the Library Catalog  under these suggested subject headings:

Broad Terms:

• Psychology
• Child psychology
• Clinical psychology
• Educational psychology
• Psychology, Applied
• Psychology Periodicals

Narrow terms:

• Ego (Psychology)
• Interpersonal relations
• Learning, Psychology of
• Management -- Psychological aspects
• Manic-depressive illness
• Violence -- Psychological aspects

Check the Library of Congress Subject Headings for other more specific terms to search on the Library Catalog.

 Internet Resources

The Internet provides a great amount of information in the psychology field.  Listed below are some of the most well-established collections:

 

 

American Psychological Association

APA is the world's largest organization of psychologists. Members and affiliates receive a variety of benefits including information resources, publication discounts, access to insurance programs, consumer discounts and identification with the field and other colleagues in the field.

 

Internet Mental Health

Internet Mental Health is a free encyclopedia of mental health information.

PsychCrawler

PsychCrawler is a product of the American Psychological Association created to provide quick access to quality content in the field of psychology.

Psychology Links from Yahoo!

Large collection, subdivided by type of information source.

 

Psych Web

"This Web site contains lots of psychology-related information for students and teachers of psychology." Organized by broad subject area.

 

Psychiatry.Com

Site that provides information about mental retardation and psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, and psychiatry and the law. It also hosts websites relating to psychiatry for a variety of organizations and services.

 Tests and Measurements

For a complete description of resources for Tests and Measurements found in McFarlin Library, check out  Tests and Measurements.

Citing Sources

For information on style manuals and guides found in McFarlin Library, check out  How to Cite Sources.