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Subject Guide: Psychology

Books

Selected Reference Books in McQuade Library (First Floor):

  • Adolescence in America: An Encyclopedia REF HQ796.A33247
  • Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology (REF HM251.B476)
  • The Brain Atlas: A Visual Guide to the Human Central Nervous System (REF QM 455.B633)
  • Comprehensive Handbook of Psychological Assessment (REF BF176 .C654 2003)
  • Consise Corsinin Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (REF BF31.E52 2004)
  • Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior (REF HV584.E53)
  • Encyclopedia of Human Emotions (REF BF531.E55)
  • Encyclopedia of Memory and Memory Disorders (REF BF371.N55)
  • Encyclopedia of Psychology (REF BF31.E52)
  • Encyclopedia of Sleep and Sleep Disorders (REF RC547.Y34)
  • The Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders (REF RB155.5.G35)
  • The Family in America: An Encyclopedia (REF HQ536.H365)
  • Handbook of Child Psychology (REF BF721 .H242 2006 (v1-4)
  • Handbook of Cognitive Neuropsychology (REF QP360.5.H357)
  • Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity (REF RC552.E18 H362 2004)
  • Handbook of Social Psychology (REF HM251.H224)
  • Learning and Memory (REF BF318.E53
  • Oxford Handbook of Memory (REF BF371.084)
  • Mental Measurements Yearbook (REF Z5814.P8B94)
  • Textbook of Biological Psychiatry (REF341.T438)

Search the NOBLE Web Catalog for more print and electronic books owned by McQuade Library. Try these sample subject headings:

Adolescent Psychology Perception
Child Psychology Personality
Cognition Psychoanalysis
Developmental Psychology Psychology
Emotions Psychology, Applied
Human Behavior Social Psychology

To find additional related subject headings scroll down to the bottom of the catalog record or consult the Library of Congress Subject Headings (a set of red books located near the Reference Desk in McQuade Library).

Articles

Annual Reviews provide articles that summarize and evaluate research on a particular topic. They are located in the circulating collection. Beginning call numbers A-H are on the second floor, J-Z are on the third floor.

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (HM251.A35)
Annual Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology (BF712.A36)
Annual Review of Neuroscience (QP351.A68)
Annual Review of Psychology (BF30.A56)
Nebraska Symposium On Motivation (BF683.N4)
Progress in Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology (QP351.P75)
Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (BF721.P8)

Print and Electronic Periodicals :

The library subscribes to a number of psychology journals in print. These are located in the Periodicals Room on the second floor of the library. There are also many full-text electronic journals available in the library's online databases. For a complete list of the library's periodicals holdings in both formats, go to Journal Finder. Here, you can search by title or subject for all print and full-text electronic periodical holdings.

Additional electronic titles may be found here:

Databases
Search these databases to find articles on psychology and related subjects. (For off-campus access you will be prompted to enter the 13-digit number on the back of your Merrimack ID).

  • Academic Search Premier is world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, providing full text for more than 4,500 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.

  • Expanded Academic ASAP meets research needs across all academic disciplines, including arts and the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

  • ERIC contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

  • Health Reference Center Academic contains articles on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, HMOs, Prescription Drugs, etc. The material contained in this database is intended for informational purposes only.

  • PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports, all in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Coverage back to 1887.
  • Proquest Psychology provides abstracts and indexing for more than 575 titles, with over 485 titles available in full text.

  • MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.

Web Sites

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