Psychology 32: Psychology of Adolescence
Spring 2004
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
| DICTIONARIES | HANDBOOKS
| CATALOGS
INDEXES/DATABASES
| ARTICLES
| CITING 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)
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)
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
Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence. Adams, Gerald
R. and Michael D. Berzonsky, eds. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003. (FROST
REF BF724 .B487 2003)
Handbook of Adolescent Psychology. Lerner, Richard M. and Laurence
Steinberg, eds. 2nd ed. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2004.
(FROST BF724 .H36 2004)
Handbook of Psychology. Weiner, Irving B., ed. Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley, c2003. 12 vols. (SCI REF BF121 H1955 2003) Vol.6 covers Developmental
Psychology, part four addresses adolescence.
Catalogs
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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.
Finding Journal Articles
Bibliographies and online indexes provide citations to articles
in journals that may or may not be readily available in the Science Library
or at Frost. This year we have a new ACLinks service for many databases.
When you find a citation that interests you, click on the 
button and the system checks to see whether there is an electronic copy
of the article available. If there is not, you can select an automatic
search of the library catalog to see whether Amherst or another 4-College
Library has the journal in print.
If you already have a reference and want to know whether the Library has an electronic version, fill in the blanks of the new Citation Linker, and it will search for a copy, offer you a catalog search for the title of the journal, or, if you choose, look for a copy of the article posted out on the Web. When in doubt, check the online library catalog yourself under the title of the journal (not the article)
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. 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.
Library Use: Handbook for Psychology. Reed, Jeffrey G. and Pam
M. Baxter. 3rd ed. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association,
c2003. (FROST/SCI REF BF76.8 .R43 2003)
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