Subject Guides

Databases

Academic Search Premier
The world's largest scholarly, multidisciplinary, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications, in nearly all academic areas of study.

Cabells Directory
The Cabells Directory is designed to help professors, graduate students and researchers publish their manuscripts.  Select the directory for Psychology & Psychiatry at the bottom of the page.

Cambridge Journals Online
Full-text database covering multiple journals including the subject areas of psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience.  Under “Subjects” select “Psychology and Psychiatry” to further define your search.

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works
A searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. New material is added on a biweekly basis and, when complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The database currently includes approximately 14,000 pages of personal accounts, transcripts, and reference material.

Counseling and Therapy in Video
Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling with 400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. This current release includes 276 videos totaling roughly 300 hours.

JSTOR
A full-text archival database with access to 6 journals in the field of psychology.

Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests In Print
Offers more than 2,000 commercially-available educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests.

PsycARTICLES
The full-text of 53 journals, most published by the APA. Select the PsycArticles limiter before you search.

PsycBOOKS
Full-text of over 1500 books, most published by the APA. Each chapter is available as a separate pdf.

PsycCRITIQUES
Full-text reviews of books in psychology. Formerly Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.

PsycINFO
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. This is a bibliographic database with abstracts covering 1806 to the present.

Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection
This is a comprehensive database from EBSCO covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 600 journals.

Psychology: A SAGE full-text collection
36 full-text psychology journals from 1944 to present.

PsycTHERAPY
This resource of 300 filmed demonstrations of 65 different therapy approaches is produced by the American Psychological Association. The filmed demonstrations
exemplify therapist interactions with individuals, couples, and families. Each demonstration is unscripted and spontaneous, and were taped within the last 10
years.

Wiley Interscience
Full-text journals and ebooks in psychology and the social sciences.

Web resources

BUBL Psychology Page
The BUBL Information service is a networked information service that provides the higher education community with value-added access to Internet resources and services.

Psychology World Wide Web Virtual Library
Keeps track of online psychology information as part of The World Wide Web Virtual Library.

Mental Measurements Resource Guide
This guide from Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries shows you how to find information about psychological tests and how to find the tests themselves.

APPIC Online Directory
A directory of professional psychology internship and postdoctoral training sites throughout the USA and Canada. This site is from the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers.

Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
The Buros home page includes citations to reviews of educational and psychological tests citations; descriptions of tests, and names and addresses of over 900 major commerical test publishers.

Internet Psychology Lab
This multimedia, interactive website presents many of the classic demonstrations and experiments of psychology.

The Personality Project
A well-organized, academic site, with good content and suggestions for further reading.

Nielsen's Psychology of Religion Pages
There is no better website on the psychology of religion. 

Social Psychology Network
An excellent portal to the world of social psychology on the Internet.

SOSIG:  Social Science Information Gateway
A database of several thousand Internet resources, each selected by a librarian or academic. This annotated catalogue is browsable and searchable by subject area.

Dictionaries

Biographical dictionary of psychology 

The dictionary of psychology (electronic resource)

The international dictionary of psychology 

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of psychology (ebook)

The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science (ebook)

Encyclopedia of human behavior 

Baker encyclopedia of psychology & counseling

Encyclopedia of human emotions

Encyclopedia of mental health

Encyclopedia of stress

Encyclopedia of aging 

Encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol & addictive behavior (electronic resource)

The Gale encyclopedia of childhood and adolescence

International encyclopedia of the social sciences (electronic resource)

Encyclopedia of applied psychology

Professional organizations

American Psychological Association's PsychNET

National Association of Professional Psychology Providers

Association for Psychological Science

Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Inc. 

Western Psychological Association

Hanover College's Directory of Psychological Societies

Washington State Psychological Society

Oregon Psychological Association

Finding books

By subject search

Below are some links to various subject searches in the catalog. The subject search is a specific and helpful way to find materials about your area of interest. Explore these or try some of your own subject searches using the "Subject" tab in Foxtrax. For more information on "power searching" by subject, ask your reference librarian.

Psychology

Adjustment (Psychology)

Adolescent psychology

Affect (Psychology)

Assertiveness (Psychology)

Attitude (Psychology)

Behaviorism (Psychology)

Change (Psychology)

Child Psychology

Constructivism (Psychology)

Context effects (Psychology)

Criminal psychology

Developmental psychology

Educational psychology

Ego (Psychology)

Emotions

Ethnopsychology

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939

Genetic psychology

Human behavior

Humanistic psychology

Influence (Psychology)

Individuality

Information theory in psychology

Intellect

James, William, 1842-1910 

Memory

Personality

Psychoanalysis

Rational emotive behavior therapy

Reality therapy

Social interaction

Social Psychology

Stress (Psychology)

Subconciousness

Values (Psychological Aspects)

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.

Customized search engine

FoxSearch Psychology

This Google Custom Search engine searches quality web sites selected by the library.