Research Guide for Psychology

• Finding Articles
• Finding Authoritative Web Sites
• Finding Books, Videos, DVDs, & CDs
• Online Books

FINDING ARTICLES

Psychology Databases

Psychology

EBSCO's Psychology searches three databases, PsycINFO ®, PsycARTICLES, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Searches can be limited to the PsycINFO database by going to EBSCO Database Selection. This will allow you to search using an electronic version of APA's official Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms ® .

Suggested APA subject terms may be helpful in finding information on the topics listed below:

• Consumer Psychology
• Education
• Gerontology
• Military Psychology
• Neuroscience
• Nursing
• Nutrition & Dietetics
• Organizational Behavior
• Psychology and the Law
• Psychopharmacology
• Sports Psychology

Psychology Related Databases

EBSCO Education

EBSCO's Education searches three databases, Professional Development Collection ™, ERIC ®, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Most of the citations in these databases link to the full text of the article when available.

ProQuest Education Journals

ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 700 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. Image articles include all the charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of articles that focus on education topics. ProQuest Education Journals covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

Health

EBSCO's Health databases searches CINAHL ®, PreCINAHL ™, Health Source ®: Nursing/Academic Edition, Clinical Pharmacology, SPORTDiscus, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. The citations in these databases link to the full text of the article when available. You can search individual databases by going to EBSCO Database Selection . Additional search features are provided when you limit your search to a single data.

LexisNexis Academic

Legal Research
This full text database includes case law, law reviews, legal news, state and federal codes, federal regulations, European Union law and patents.

Medical News 47 Titles
This is a database of full text articles in the fields of life sciences, medicine, & health. (Dates of coverage: varies by title, all titles to present)

Medical Journals 20 Titles
This is an index of full-text journal articles in fields of life sciences, medicine, & health. (Dates of coverage: varies by title, 11 titles to present)
Title List

Medical Abstracts
This is an index to the abstracts of journal articles in the National Library of Medicine's Medline (Dates of coverage: 1966-present)

News
This full text database includes U.S. & International news from newspapers, magazines, journals, television and radio news broadcasts.

WestLaw Campus Research

WestLaw Research Campus is an online legal research tool for students interested in law-related areas such as criminal justice, social work, business, education and law. In addition to primary legal information consisting of case law, and state and federal statutes, this resource provides summaries and analysis of court decisions, law reviews, and synopsis of legal issues.

Please note that in order to access this database, WestLaw requires users to check the I agree button at the bottom of the terms of agreement page.   

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FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES

Alvernia Library’s Internet Reference Library

The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Psychology Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed from the Resources page of the Library Web site.

Alvernia Library Research Page

The Research Guides page, listed under Research Help on the Alvernia Libary Research page, links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.

Brodart DartClix

The Brodart DartClix consists of 16,000 professionally selected Web sites.

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FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS

WorldCat 100 million records

This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)

Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.

Alvernia's Catalog

Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.

The Dewey Decimal System is used to classify books in the Alvernia Library. Psychology books are located primarily in sections 150 to 158.

Examples of books with background information on psychology are listed below:

The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research 001.42 S129 2005

The Sixteenth Mental Measurements Yearbook R 016.15 M549 2005

Eminent Contributors to Psychology R 016.15 W341

Biographical Dictionary of Psychology R150.92 B615 1997

Dictionary of Theories, Laws, and Concepts in Psychology R150.3 R711 1998

APA Dictionary of Psychology R150.3 A512 2007

The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science R150.3 C826 2002

Encyclopedia of Psychology R150.3 E56 2000

Encyclopedia of Human Behavior R150.3 E56H

The Encyclopedia of Human Emotions R152.4 E56 1999

Graduate Study in Psychology R150.71 G733 2005

Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology R155.83 J14 2006

Encyclopedia of Women and Gender R305.4 E56 2001

The Encyclopedia of Mental Health R616.89 E56

The Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis
R616.89 E56, 1996

Handbook of Community Psychology R362 H236 2000

Developmental Psychopathology 616.89 D489 2006

Diagnosis and Statistical Manual Mental Disorders: Diagnosis, Etiology & Treatment R 616.8907 F527 2004

The Crisis in Youth Mental Health R618.928 C932 2006

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ONLINE BOOKS

NetLibrary eBooks

A collection of 12,200 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet. To access eBooks from off-campus, you must first Create A Free Account from a computer on the Alvernia College computer network.

Examples of psychology ebooks include:

• Adolescent Psychological Development: Rationality, Morality, and Identity (2005)
• Beyond the Dyad: Conceptualization of Social Networks (2005)
• Can You Read Me?: Creative Writing With Child and Adult Victims of Abuse (2005)
• Leadership Processes and Follower Self-identity (2005)
• Psychologists' Desk Reference (2005)
• Sports Marketing and the Psychology of Marketing Communication (2005)

International Encyclopedia of the Social Services
This encyclopedia covers articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.

eBooks On the Web

Biomedical books
The National Center for Biotechnology Information's collection of electronic books can be searched for topics in psychology.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. The MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.

Encyclopedia of Psychology
A collection of websites on psychology issues.

 

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Updated: September 5, 2008

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