Psychology 12: Introduction to Biological Psychology
Fall 2007
Library Catalog & Indexes
Five College Library Catalog. Find books and journal titles in Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and UMass libraries. Search all together or search one library at a time.
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.
PubMed (1966–present) MEDLINE, The National Library of Medicine's index
to biomedical literature available through the National Center for Biotechnology
Information (NCBI). Hint: Search for known articles using the Single Citation Matcher.
Background
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)
Handbook of Psychology. Weiner, Irving B., ed. Hoboken,
N.J. : Wiley, c2003. 12 vols. (SCI REF BF121 H1955 2003) Vol.3 covers
Biologicial Psychology.
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Smelser, Neil J., Paul B. Baltes, eds. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2001. 26
vols. (FROST REF H41 I58 2001)
MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Wilson, Robert A.,
and Frank C. Keil, eds. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999. (FROST REF
BF311 .M556 1999)
Britannica Online
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).
Stedman's Medical Dictionary. Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams
& Wilkins, c2000. (FROST REF R121 .S8 2000)
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary. 29th ed. Philadelphia
: W.B. Saunders Co., 2000. (SCI REF xR121 .D73)
Citing Sources & Research Guides
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.). (2001). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (FROST/SCI REF BF76.7 P83 2001)
Using
APA Format Purdue University's
electronic handout for using APA style manual.
Documentation Guidelines: Citing Sources Within Your Paper Duke University's guide includes APA, MLA, and Turabian
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