Psychology 40: Sex Role Socialization
Spring 2008
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.
Sociological
Abstracts (1963-present) Online index to scholarly articles, reviews, chapters,
and conference papers in sociology and related social sciences.
Web of Science (1984-present) Online version of Science and Social Sciences Citation Index, interdisciplinary journal article databases. Tracks cited references to locate more recent articles.
GenderWatch Database of online articles about all aspects of gender,
sex roles, sexual orientation, etc. from a wide variety of journals. Watch
out: a few titles give you only abstracts, not full articles.
Expanded
Academic ASAP and Academic
Search Premier Two databases which give references to articles from
journals in many disciplines, many with complete texts of the articles.
LEXIS-NEXIS
Academic Universe Fulltext of many U.S. and international newspapers.
Background
Kazdin, A. E. (Ed.). (2000). Encyclopedia of psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association ; New York: Oxford University Press. 8 vols. (SCI REF BF31 .E52 2000)Weiner, I. B. (Ed.). (2003). Handbook of psychology. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley. 12 vols. (SCI REF BF121 .H1955 2003) Vol.6 covers Developmental Psychology and Vol.9 covers Health Psychology.
Piotrowski, N. A. (Ed.). (2003). McGill's encyclopedia of social science: psychology. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press. (SCI REF BF31 .M33 2003)
Worell, J. (Ed.). (2001). Encyclopedia of women and gender. San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press (FROST REF HQ1115 .E43 2001)
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Smelser, Neil J., Paul B. Baltes, eds. Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2001. 26 vols. (also available at: FROST REF H41 I58 2001)
Dictionaries
Dictionary of Psychology via Oxford Reference Online (also available
in print FROST REF BF31 .C65 2001)
VandenBos, G. R. (Ed.). (2007) APA dictionary of psychology. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association. (FROST REF BF31 A63 2007)
Citing Sources & Research Guides
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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