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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts Covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations, and education. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Cambridge Journals OnlineOnline content delivery service for Cambridge University Press' collection of nearly 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Full text coverage. Cambridge University Press
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
JSTOR Access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Ecology & Botany collection. Full text.
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
PILOTS - Published International Literature on Traumatic StressFrom the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Citations, abstracts, and limited full text for literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health conditions associated with traumatic events. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
PsycARTICLESGeneral psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research. Full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. Coverage from 1894 to present.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences CollectionOver 550 peer-reviewed journals. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. EBSCOhost
PsycINFOPsychology and related disciplines, including medicine, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and other areas. Nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. Coverage from 1887 to the present. Updated weekly. All records published in Psychological Abstracts are now in PsycINFO. EBSCOhost/American Psychological Association
Social Science Full TextCitations, abstracts, and full text for articles, reviews, biographies, and more. Coverage for both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. H. W. Wilson
Sociological AbstractsCitations and abstracts for journal articles, book reviews, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Web of ScienceProvides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded Index (1992 to present) for more than 6,400 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals in over 150 disciplines. Offers current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references. Includes MEDLINE. Updated weekly. Thomson
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

BF - Psychology RC - Internal Medicine. Psychiatry

Reference books

BookCall number
A Dictionary of Psychology (online book)A Dictionary of Psychology
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersREF RC 455.2 .C4 D536 2000
Encyclopedia of Human EmotionsREF BF 531 .E55 1999 V.1
Publication Manual of the American Psychological AssociationREF BF 76.7 .P83 2001
The Dictionary of PsychologyREF BF31 .C72 2002

Web resources

American Psychological Association
Association for Psychological Science
Encyclopedia of Psychology
Keirsey Temperament and Measurement Website
Library Research in Psychology
National Association for the Education of Young Children
National Institute of Mental Health
Psych Central
Social Psychology Network
Test Reviews Online