Penn State University Libraries - PSYCH 243

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries (Wikipedia for College) Good for Browsing and Background Information on topics

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Oxford Reference Online

Ready for Books?

Once you have your key concepts and keywords, you can use The CAT to find books on your topic.

Using the "Begins With (Browse)" search, you can search the CAT using book titles or authors' names. Authors' names should be entered "last name, first name" and titles should be entered without the initial article (the, a, an...). If the book you want is about the author, make sure you search the name as aSubject, not Author.

Examples:    Morton, J.   -OR-   english grammar for students of french

Don't have a title/author in mind? Instead of a "Keyword" Search, try using the "Topic: Title+Subject" search option with one or more keywords.

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Lion Search – one single search box that searches across all library resources for books, scholarly journals, e-books, newspapers, and more!