Psychology 12: Psychology as a Natural Science
Spring 2003
ENCYCLOPEDIAS | DICTIONARIES | HANDBOOKS | 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)
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Smelser, Neil J., Paul B. Baltes, eds. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2001. (FROST
REF H41 I58 2001)
Encyclopedia of Human Emotions. Levinson, David, James J. Ponzetti,
Jr., and Peter F. Jorgensen, eds. New York, NY : Macmillan Reference,
c1999. 2 vols. (SCI REF BF531 E55 1999)
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)
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 Psychology. Weiner, Irving B., ed. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2003. 12 vols. (SCI REF BF121 H1955 2003)
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.
Medline via NCBI (1966–Present) The National Library of Medicine's index to biomedical literature from 1966 to present week is available through the National Center for Biotechnology Information's PubMed server.
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.
Social
Sciences Index (1983 – present)
Index to English-language periodicals including psychology. Tends to index
fewer scholarly journals than the two above.
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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