McQuade Library Guide to Research
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Librarian Lyena Chavez
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Online Subscription Databases
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off campus access, enter 14-digit number on back of MACKcard |
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Proquest Psychology Many of these journals are also indexed in PsycINFO --one exception is the popular (non-scholarly) journal Psychology Today. |
| CWI - Contemporary Women's issues (via FirstSearch) |
| ERIC (Education database) |
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Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Single user access ONLY. |
Multidisciplinary Databases
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off campus access, enter 14-digit number on back of MACKcard |
| Academic Search Premier (via Ebscohost) |
| Expanded Academic ASAP (via Infotrac) |
| Project MUSE |
| JSTOR |
Online Full-Text Newspapers
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off campus access, enter 14-digit number on back of MACKcard |
| Massachusetts
Newspapers Includes Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
| Lexis-Nexis
Academic |
| National
Newspapers Offers online access to some of the most respected newspapers from all over the country, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, etc. |
| Wall
Street Journal Full-text coverage of Wall Street Journal, updated daily, and going back to 1984. |
Selected Reference Books
These books, located in the Reference Room, may be helpful for introductory or background material.
The
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology
Encyclopedia
of Multicultural Psychology
Encyclopedia
of School Psychology
Encyclopedia
of Human Emotions
Cambridge
Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development
Testing and Assessment Reference Books
Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment (CHOPA): v.1 - Intellectual and Neuropsychological assessment; v.2 - Personality Assessment; v.3 - Behavioral Assessment; v.4 - Industrial and Organizational Assessment. This work provides coverage on personality assessment from leading experts, provides info on personality assessment and presents conceptual information about the tests.
Measures for Clinical Practice and Research: A Sourcebook Volume 1 focuses on scales for use with adults, volume 2 provides a range for couples, families, and children. These volumes have dozens of scales as well as updated information for existing instruments. Each instrument is reproduced in its entirety and critiqued by the editors who provide guidance on how to select and score them.
Handbook of Sexuality-Related Measures - Access over 200 instruments that measure a myriad of sexuality-related states, traits, behaviors, and outcomes.
To search for more reference works in Psychology, use Reference Universe
Books about literature reviews and research:
Doing
a Literature Review: Releasing the Social Science Research Imagination
Doing
a Literature Search: a comprehensive guide for the social sciences
Conducting
Research Literature Reviews: From Paper to the Internet
The
psychology major's handbook
Writing
papers in psychology : a student guide to research reports, literature reviews,
proposals, posters, and handouts
Research
methods in psychology: a handbook
On
APA Style:
Concise
rules of APA style.
Writing
with style : APA style made easy
Also, try a keyword search on your particular topic
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Periodicals Information & More
| Journal Finder | Magazine or Journal? |
| Interlibrary Loan Request Form - Books | Interlibrary Loan Request Form - Articles |
Selected Internet Resources
- Google Scholar - a subset of scholarly literature in all fields, not comprehensive!
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- Encyclopedia of Psychology (Ed. William Palya. [Jacksonville]: Department of Psychology, Jacksonville State University, 2003-.
- Psychology Virtual Library (A free Web portal that collects and annotates Web sites of interest to psychologists and psychology students.)
Electronic Journals in Psychology
- Current Research in Social Psychology
- Electronic Journals and Periodicals (List maintained by John Krantz at Hanover College. Access is alphabetical and entries are briefly annotated.)
- Cogprints
Literature Review Sites
- American
Psychological Association
- PyscPORT Psychology in the News
- American Psychological Society
- Scholarly Societies Project (A comprehensive listing of professional organizations in psychology compiled at the University of Waterloo Library.)
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