The following resources are available
in the Vairo Library Reference Collection or from the Penn State
E-Resource List as noted. The library staff is available
to help you locate these and other resources.
Encyclopedias
Bellack, A. S. and M. Hersen (1998).
Comprehensive clinical psychology. Amsterdam ; New York,
Pergamon.
REF RC467.C597 1998 v.1 - v.11.
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral
Sciences is the online equivalent of the 24 volume encyclopedia
published in 2002. Content is organized around more than 30 primarily
interdisciplinary topical areas of active research and significant
promise (for example, memory, crime and violence, markets, modernization),
combined with the categories: Overarching Topics,Disciplines,
Intersecting fields, and Applications. Includes extensive indices,
searchable full-text, and embedded electronic reference links.
Annual updates are planned for release from 2004.
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Kazdin, A. E. (2000). Encyclopedia
of psychology. Washington, D.C. Oxford ; New York, American
Psychological Association ; Oxford University Press.
REF BF31.E523 2000 v.1 - v.8.
Levinson, D., J. J. Ponzetti, et al. (1999). Encyclopedia of
human emotions. New York, Macmillan Reference USA.
REF BF531.E55 1999 v.1 v.2.
Nadel, L. and Z (2003). Encyclopedia of cognitive science.
London ; New York, Nature Pub. Group. REF BF311.E56 2003
v.1 - v.4.
Wolman, B. B. (1977). International encyclopedia of psychiatry,
psychology, psychoanalysis & neurology. New York, Produced
for Aesculapius Publishers by Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. REF
RC334.I57 v.1 - v.12.
Wolman, B. B. (1996). Encyclopedia of psychiatry, psychology,
and psychoanalysis. New York, Henry Holt.
REF RC334.I57 v.1 - v.12.
Dictionaries
Colman, A. M. (2001). A dictionary
of psychology. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press.
REF BF31.C64 2001.
Corsini, R. J. (1999). The dictionary of psychology. Philadelphia,
PA, Brunner/Mazel Taylor & Francis. REF BF31.C72 1999.
Roeckelein, J. E. (1998). Dictionary of theories, laws, and
concepts in psychology. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press.
REF BF31.R625 1998.
Manual and Handbook
American Psychiatric, A. and D.-I.
Task Force on (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of
mental disorders : DSM-IV. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric
Association. REF RC455.2.C4D54 1994.
Weiner, I. B., D. K. Freedheim, et al. (2003). Handbook of
psychology. Hoboken, N.J., John Wiley. REF BF121.H1955
2003 v.1 - v.12.
v. 1. History of psychology
v. 2. Research methods in
psychology
v. 3. Biological psychology
v. 4. Experimental psychology
v. 5. Personality and social
psychology
v. 6. Developmental psychology
v. 7. Educational psychology
v. 8. Clinical psychology
v. 9. Health psychology
v. 10. Assessment psychology
v. 11. Forensic psychology
v. 12. Industrial and organizational
psychology
Tests
Mental
Measurements Yearbook
- Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute,
contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language
standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational
aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed
Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Each entry includes test author,
publication information, scoring information, an overview of the
test, a description of the test materials and time needed, and
one or more reviews of the test. E-Resource List Click to Connect
Thesaurus
American Psychological, A. (2001).
Thesaurus of psychological index terms. Washington, American
Psychological Association. REF Z695.1.P7K5 9th.ed. 2001.
Biographies
Sheehy, N., A. J. Chapman, et al.
(1997). Biographical dictionary of psychology. London ;
New York, Routledge Reference. REF BF109.A1B56 1997.
Watson, R. I. (1974). Eminent contributors to psychology.
New York, Springer Pub. Co. REF Z7201.W37 v.1 v.2.
Style
Manual
American Psychological, A. and e. rd (2001).
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association.
Washington, D.C., American Psychological Association. REF
BF76.7.A46 5th.ed. 2001 (Ask at circulation desk).
Annual Review
Annual
Review of Psychology - Annual Reviews
provides access to critical review articles that synthesize primary
research literature in Psychology. Users can browse a single issue
or search across all issues.
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Index and Abstract E-Resources
MIT CogNet - MIT
CogNet, the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Community Online, provides
access to a searchable, full-text library of books, journals,
and reference works from the MIT Press, as well as content and
links to resources from other publishers, professional associations,
institutions, and individuals. Additional features are conference
materials, a directory of cognitive science programs, threaded
discussion groups, job listings and other career information,
and more. E-Resource List
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PsycINFO (American Psychological
Association) - PsycINFO,
the primary database for psychology and related disciplines, is
a database of psychological literature from the 1800's to the
present, from 1300 journals from 50 countries. Through SilverPlatter,
it provides full text, searchable access to more than 25,000 articles
from 42 journals published by APA and allied organizations from
1988 to the present, and links to non-APA full text journals owned
in electronic format by the University Libraries. Related subject
areas included education, organizational management, psychophysiology,
psychiatry, nursing, ergonomics, environmental psychology, human
factors engineering, sociology, business, law and more. Published
by the American Psychological Association. E-Resource List
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ProQuest Psychology Journals
- ProQuest Psychology Journals:
A full text database subset of PsycINFO, including only 400 full-text
journals that are licensed to ProQuest. Coverage is typically
from 1996, with a few titles prior to that date. (Coverage does
not presently include APA journals; additions to coverage occur
frequently.) E-Resource List Click to Connect
PubMed (Medline)
- MEDLINE (which stands for MEDlars onLINE) is
the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) premier bibliographic database. It includes the
fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and
the preclinical sciences. MEDLINE has 9 million citations and author abstracts from
current biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. Coverage:
indexes 3600 journals, international in scope, 1966-Present. Updates: Monthly
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Social Sciences Citation Index
- Social Sciences Citation
Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of
the social sciences. It covers 1400 social science journals. The
index can be used to look up either a specific author or a particular
publication to see how many articles in the database cited that
author or publication. The index can also be used to find
related articles (articles that have at least one reference in
common).
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Web Resources
http://www.apa.org/
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/ebsl/psych.htm
http://www.psychwww.com/
http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols/megapsych.html
last updated 02/21/2006
by Mary Frances McLaughlin
