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Psychology 17: Psychology of Food and Eating Disorders

Fall 2003

BOOKS | ARTICLES | INDEXES/DATABASES | CITING SOURCES | ENCYCLOPEDIAS | DICTIONARIES | HANDBOOKS

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Finding Journal & Newspaper Articles

Citation Linker - A new tool to help locate online fulltext article sources. Excellent choice for newsletters, newspapers, and less scholarly works cited by Schlosser.

Four College Library Catalog - Search for journal titles and newspapers to find what the Library owns in print, microfilm and online. Check out this page to help locate journals once you've found them in the catalog.

Indexes/Databases

PsycInfo (1887-present)
Index covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Updated monthly.

PubMed (1966–present) MEDLINE, The National Library of Medicine's index to biomedical literature available through the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

Academic Search Premier
Fulltext articles from over 3,600 journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and sciences. Also includes about 1,000 titles that are indexed but not fulltext . Dates of journals vary, some go back to the 1920's, others are current issues only.

Expanded Academic ASAP (1980-present)
An index to articles from a wide variety of academic journals. It lists articles from psychology, sociology, and many other disciplines. Many references include the complete text of the articles.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
(dates vary by periodical)—Full text database covering current news and events, legal, and business issues. Produced by Lexis-Nexis/Reed Elsevier.

Citing Sources

Be sure to credit the sources you use for a research project—whether printed books and journals or online texts, websites, etc.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, c2001. (FROST/SCI REF BF76.7 P83 2001)
Using APA Format Purdue University's electronic handout for using APA style manual.
Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association The APA's official citation format for electronic sources.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Psychology. Kazdin, Alan E., ed. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000. 8 vols. (SCI REF BF31 E52 2000)
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. Katz, Solomon H., ed. New York : Scribner/Thomson Gale, c2003. (FROST REF GT2850 .E53 2003)
Britannica Online For general information, a good encyclopedia is often best.

Dictionaries

Dictionary of Psychology. Corsini, Raymond J. Philadelphia, PA : Brunner/Mazel, c1999. (SCI REF BF31 C72 1999)
Dictionary of Biological Psychology. Winn, Philip, ed. London : Routledge, 2001. (SCI REF QP360 .D52 2001)
Oxford Reference Online Online version of many Oxford Universtiy Press reference books, including the Dictionary of Psychology (also available in print FROST REF BF31 .C65 2001) and the Dictionary of Food and Nutrition.
OED Online or the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary (FROST REF PE1625 O87 1989)

Handbooks

Handbook of Psychology. Weiner, Irving B., ed. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2003. 12 vols. (SCI REF BF121 H1955 2003)
Handbook of Health Psychology. Baum, Andrew, et al., eds. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2001. (SCI REF R726.7 .H3645 2001)
Oxford Companion to Food. Davidson, Alan. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. (FROST REF TX349 .D38 1999)
Eating Disorders and Obesity : a comprehensive handbook. Fairburn, Christopher G. and Kelly D. Brownell, eds. 2nd ed. New York : Guilford Press, c2002. (FROST RC552.E18 E2825 2002)

Need Additional Help? Contact Susan Kimball by e-mail (sjkimball) or phone (x8112) or stop by Keefe Science Library during her office hours.

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