Psychology 44: Social Psychology of Race
Fall 2003
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
| DICTIONARIES | HANDBOOKS
| RACIAL/ETHNIC GROUPS |
CATALOGS
ARTICLES
| INDEXES/DATABASES | CITING
SOURCES | CITATION
EXAMPLES
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)
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology. Manstead, Antony S.R.
and Miles Hewstone, eds. Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : Blackwell, 1995.
(FROST REF HM251 B476 1995)
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Smelser, Neil J. and Paul B. Baltes, eds. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2001.
26 vols. (FROST REF H41 I58 2001)
Britannica Online
Dictionaries
Dictionary of Psychology. Corsini, Raymond J. Philadelphia,
PA : Brunner/Mazel, c1999. (SCI REF BF31 C72 1999)
Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations. Cashmore, Ernest, ed.
3rd ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 1994. (FROST REF GN496 .C37 1994)
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).
OED
Online or the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary (FROST REF
PE1625 O87 1989)
Handbooks
Handbook of Social Psychology. Gilbert, Daniel T.,
Susan T. Fiske, and Gardner Lindsey, eds. 4th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill,
1998. 2 vols. (FROST HM251 H224 1998)
Social Psychology : handbook of basic principles. Higgins, E. Tory,
Arie W. Kruglanski, eds. New York : Guilford, 1996. (FROST HM251 S6743
1996)
Handbook of Psychology. Weiner, Irving B., ed. Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley, c2003. 12 vols. (SCI REF BF121 H1955 2003) See Personality and
Social Psychology volume
Racial/Ethnic Group-Specific Sources
Note on sources below: Browse index and TOC for
entries on Race Relations, Social Issues, Prejudice, etc.
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Salzman, Jack,
et al., eds. New York : Macmillan Library Reference, 1996. 5 vols. (FROST
REF E185 .E54 1996)
Native America in the Twentieth Century : An encyclopedia. Davis,
Mary B. ed. New York : Garland Pub., 1994. (FROST REF E76.2 .N36 1994)
Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States. Kanellos, Nicolás
and Claudio Esteva-Fabregat, eds. Houston, Tex. : Arte Público
Press ; Madrid, Spain : Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana,
c1993-. 4 vols. (FROST REF E184.S75 H365 1993)
The Asian American Encyclopedia. Ng, Franklin, ed. New York : Marshall
Cavendish, c1995. 6 vols. (FROST REF E184.O6 A827 1995)
Catalogs
Find books and journal titles in the Four College Library Catalog (for Amherst, Hampshire, Mt. Holyoke and Smith) from the Library's homepage; there is a separate UMass Catalog. You can search in the library catalogs by AUTHOR, by SUBJECT, by TITLE (or JOURNAL TITLE), or by KEYWORD. The SUBJECT choice requires the exact word or phrase chosen by libraries to define your topic. Try starting with KEYWORD and looking at the subjects assigned to items you retrieve.
Finding Journal Articles
Here's a guide reviewing how to locate journal articles from start to finish.
Indexes/Databases
PsycINFO
(1887–present)
Index covering the professional and academic literature in psychology
and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology,
education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas.
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.
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.
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