Psychology 20: Social Psychology
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)
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., Paul B. Baltes, eds. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2001. (FROST
REF H41 I58 2001)
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 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)
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.
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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Do you have questions about research in this course? Contact Susan Kimball (sjkimball)