Psychology

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on a variety of psychology topics.

Background Information Sources

Available in the library's reference area:

Dictionary of Psychology REF BF31 .C65 2001
Encyclopedia of Psychology (8 volumes) REF BF31 .E52 2000
Corsini Encyclopedia of Psych. & Behavioral Science. (4 vols.) REF BF31 .E52 2001
Cognitive Psychology REF BF201 .M43 2005
Handbook of Developmental Psychology REF BF713 .H364 2003
Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues REF BF721 .C5155 1999
Handbook of Child Psychology (4 volumes) REF BF721 .H242 1998
Handbook of Racial & Ethnic Minority Psychology REF GN502 .H3635 2003
Handbook of Social Psychology (2 volumes) REF HM251 .H224 1998
DSM-IV-TR: Diagnostic & Stat. Manual of Mental Disorders REF RC455.2 .C4 D536 2000
Handbook of Racial-Cultural Psych. and Counseling (2 vols.) REF RC455.4 .E8 H368 2004

Books

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse the BF (Psychology), RC321-574 (Medicine: Neurosciences) call number ranges.

  • psychology
  • psychological
  • psychiatry
  • cognitive
  • consciousness
  • emotions
  • learning
  • motivation
  • temperament
  • child psychology
  • clinical psychology
  • social psychology
  • brain
  • mind
  • memory

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

  • PsycARTICLES: Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Approximately 150,000 articles from over 70 journals.
  • PsycINFO: Abstracts and full text of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations from peer-reviewed literature in psychology. Journal coverage is from the 1800s to present including international material selected from around 2,400 periodicals in dozens of languages.
  • Academic Search Premier: multi-disciplinary database that provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
  • Open Access Journals: directory of scientific and medical journals published online.
  • Academic OneFile: contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text.
  • LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.

Internet Resources

Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Health Care.

  • National Institutes of Mental Health
    http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
    a health information section has summaries of conditions and mental health issues
  • American Psychological Association
    http://www.apa.org/
    a topics area lists conditions and issues and provides links to articles and news
  • Mental Health Information Center
    http://www.mentalhealth.org/
    from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; links to resources and organizations
  • PsychWeb
    http://www.psywww.com/
    links to psychology-related resources for students and teachers