Psychology

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Books

You can search the library catalog by author, title, subject or keyword (multiple fields at once). Some specific subject headings related to psychology are:

COGNITION
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
CONSCIOUSNESS
PERSONALITY
EGO
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY
THOUGHT AND THINKING

Magazines and Journals

Child Development
Journal of Social Issues
Psychology Today

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Handbooks and Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Adult Development REF BF724.5.E53
Encyclopedia of Clinical Assessment REF BF698.4.E5
Encyclopedia of Human Behavior REF BF31.E5
Encyclopedia of Psychology REF BF31.E52
The Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis REF RC437.E49
Forensic Psychology REF RA1148.F674
Handbook of Psychological Assessment REF BF176.G76
Handbook of Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology REF BF121.H1955
Handbook of Psychology: Industrial and Organizational Psychology REF BF121.H1955
Handbook of Psychology: Developmental Psychology REF BF712.H1955
The Oxford Companion to the Mind REF BF31.O94

Online Library Databases

InfoTrac OneFile
A comprehensive periodical resource. Includes full-text periodicals covering a wide range of topics including psychology. Backfile coverage from 1980.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Contains citations and many full-text articles on a variety of subjects including psychology. Provides coverage from thousands of journals, magazines, and newswires.

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
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Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Various portions of the database are updated daily and most information is full text.

Internet Resources

American Psychological Association
http://www.apa.org
A scientific and professional organization representing the field of psychology in the United States. The site contains a wealth of information for students as well as the general public.

Classics in the History of Psychology
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca
Full text of a large number of documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines that are available free online. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites.

Encyclopedia of Psychology
http://www.psychology.org
Links to scholarly Internet publications and resources on careers, psychological phenomena, organizations and institutions, paradigms and theories, biography and history, and publications. Maintained by the Department of Psychology at Jacksonville State University.
 

Web Search Engines

Infomine
http://infomine.ucr.edu
A gateway to scholarly sources on the Web, cataloged by subject heading.

Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org
A searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative Web sites.

Librarian’s Internet Index
http://www.lii.org
A directory of quality Web sites selected by librarians.