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Psychology Subject Guide
Contents
Scope and Introduction
Getting Started
Reference Resources
Research Guides
 Electronic Databases & Indexes
Journal Titles
Library of Congress Call No. &
Subject Headings
Related Subject Guides
Online Research Guides
Psychology Related Web Sites
Electronic
Databases & Indexes
Selected
Databases & Indexes
Other Useful Electronic Databases & Indexes
Database
Finder
Off-Campus
Access
Electronic
Indexes and Databases:
Electronic indexes
and databases provide citations or references to the articles in journals,
magazines, newspapers, books, book chapters, journal articles, conference
papers, government documents, etc. In some library databases, the full
text of the articles is available.
Selected Electronic Databases & Indexes
Access Science
Access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms,
and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology.
AccessScience provides the finest collection of science reference
materials—online and fully searchable. We offer easy accessibility to the
information you need to make research easy—with access to all the
articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill
Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the
McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest
Science News® headlines, biographies, and more. This online
encyclopedia is tailored to researchers and students looking for the most
relevant, readable, and trusted sources of information available. [from
Access Science]
Blackwell Synergy
459,037 articles from 780 leading journals.
Blackwell Synergy is the online
journals service from Blackwell Publishing. It holds the content for most
of Blackwell's journals, the majority of which are published on behalf of
international scholarly and professional societies. Blackwell Synergy
helps to improve the quality of research time by enabling readers to
search for relevant articles, read abstracts for free, print the full-text
of subscribed to articles, download citations, and make connections to
other relevant research through reference linking. [from Blackwell]
ProQuest Psychology Journals
Over 400 journals and related publications in
psychology.
With complete information from over 400 top
psychology and related publications, this database meets the needs of both
students and mental-health professionals. All the source publications are
available in the ASCII full-text format. Nearly all of them also offer
articles in the full-image and Text+Graphics Science & Technology formats.
[ProQuest description]
PubMed
PubMed is a service of the
National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations
from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back
to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other
related resources.
PsychInfo
(1887-current). Indexes and abstracts journal articles
and book chapters in psychology and behavioral sciences.
PsycINFO (R) contains citations and summaries
of journal articles, book chapters, and books, as well as citations to
dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of
related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology,
education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business,
and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international
material selected from more than 1,900 periodicals written in over 35
languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide
English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 80,000
references are added annually through regular updates.
PsycINFO is produced and copyrighted (c) by
the American Psychological Association. [description from PsychInfo]
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences
Collection is a comprehensive database providing 575 full text
publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database
covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry
& psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and
experimental methods. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts
are provided for all journals in the collection. Examples of publications
offered in the Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
include: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Clinical Neuropsychologist,
European Archives of Psychiatry & Clinical Neuroscience, and many
more. The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection can be
searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full
text from citations within PsycINFO. Nearly all full text
publications included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
The majority of full text titles in this database are available in native
(searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this
database dates as far back as 1965. [EbscoHost description]
PyscARTICLES
PsycARTICLES is a definitive source
of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles
in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general
psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical
research. The database contains more than 40,000 articles from 53 journals
- 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 8 from
allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the
editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present. [EbscoHost
description]
Science Direct
ScienceDirect is the unsurpassed single source for
scientific, technical and medical information on the Internet. Researchers
can access a critical mass of the world's STM journal titles and full-text
articles.
Social Work Abstract
The Social Work Abstracts database contains more than
45,000 records, from 1977 - present, from social work and related journals
on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging,
substance abuse, legislation, and more.
SocINDEX
SocINDEX with Full Text,
is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research
database. SocINDEX with Full Text offers coverage from all
subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology,
criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic
development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family,
politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure,
social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse,
urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts includes abstracts on all
aspects of sociology. Provides access to the latest research in sociology
and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Web of Science
Covers over 8,000 international journals in the
sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities.
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Other Useful Electronic Databases & Indexes
Academic Search Premier
(Indexing: 1984+, full-text: 1990+). Indexing and
abstracts of scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities,
education and more.
American Humanities Index
Provides a collection of bibliographic references to
literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States
and Canada. This database covers over 1,000 journals published from 1975
to the present. All journals included are indexed in their entirety (cover
to cover). This database provides citation information for articles,
essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including, poems,
fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
Books in Print- Patron
"The industry's largest Web-based bibliographic
resource" with an easy to use interface.
Books in Print Professional
comprehensive database of over 5 million book, audio
book, and video titles.
Britannica Online
The complete encyclopedia, with related Internet sites
and more. Encyclopedia Britannica.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most
robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and
mass media. This database originated with the acquisition and subsequent
merging of two popular databases in the fields of communication and mass
media studies -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National
Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly
produced by Pennsylvania State University). Communication & Mass Media
Complete offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation
coverage for additional sources. In total, several hundred valuable
sources are covered.
CQ Researcher Online
Comprehensive, non-biased reporting and analysis on
issues shaping our world.
Dissertation Abstracts
(Indexing: 1861+, Abstracting Dissertations: 1980+,
Abstracting Theses: 1988+). The complete range of academic subjects
appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions.
Ebsco Electronic Journal Service (EJS)
Provides access to full-text of many of FSU's online
journal subscriptions and also EJS Journals via pay per view. Includes
searching in article titles, journal titles, abstracts, full-text and
title list browsing.
Ebscohost
Search up to 24 of FSU's databases simultaneously
ECO
(Electronic Collection Online). An OCLC collection of
scholarly journals.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(Current). This resource features over 25,000
informative segments to meet the research needs of elementary, middle, and
high schools students.
Gale Ready Reference Shelf
Integrates 14 of Gale's reference directories. It
contains more than 320,000 listings for associations, research centers,
publishers, publications, databases, television and radio stations, and
more.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A database of E-Book reference titles.
Infotrac Expanded Academic ASAP
Coverage is available through 2,600 indexed and 1,400
full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including.
Infotrac OneFile
InfoTrac OneFile includes over 6,325 titles indexed
from 1980 to present; nearly 3,000 full-text titles, including Expanded
Academic ASAP.
Infotrac Reference Center Gold
This resource integrates a vast array of key business
and general interest titles from national news magazines and encyclopedias
to core business journals.
JSTOR
STOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual
mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly
journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Provides access to a wide range of news, business,
legal and reference information.
NCLIVE
A core group of reference and research materials
online in the form of full-text electronic information and indexes.
Opposing Viewpoints
Draws on the acclaimed social issues series published
by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and
Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for
information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews,
statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine
and newspaper articles.
PAIS International
(1972-current). Citations to public policy literature
of economics, government, law, international business, political science,
public administration, and other social sciences.
Periodical Abstracts
(1987-current). Abstracts from general and academic
journals, covering business, current affairs, economics, literature,
religion, psychology, women's studies, and others.
Proceedings First
(1993+). An index of conference publications.
ProQuest Direct
Search up to a dozen Proquest databases simultaneously
Proquest Dissertations and Theses- Full Text
More than two million dissertation and theses from
1861 to the present, many of them full text.
Reader’s Guide
(Indexing: 1983+, Abstracting: 1984+). Abstracts of
articles from popular magazines.
RISK
OFF CAMPUS PATRONS: USE THE LINK BELOW. Encompasses
risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other
sources, and risk-related concerns such as public and environmental health
and psychological aspects.
Serials Directory
(Indexing: current). Information includes journal
price, e-mail and Internet address.
SIRS Researcher
(Indexing: 1988+, Summaries: 1994+). Thousands of
full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic,
political, and global issues.
Union Lists of Periodicals
(Current). Journal bibliographic information and
Library holdings.
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
With Full text of articles from over 1,750
publications and Article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500
publications, Wilson OmniFile is especially convenient for users with
inquiries in areas that cross disciplines—ethnic studies, women’s studies,
history, and more. Wilson OmniFile is even helpful to those who are unsure
which specialty to search for their topic of interest.
Wilson Select Plus
(1994-current). Contains indexed and abstracted
articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online.
World Almanac
The World Almanacs - fundamental reference resources.
World Cat
Union catalog of materials held in libraries
world-wide. Coverage: Updated regularly.
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Database Finder
Use Database Finder to search
for a list of databases recommended for Psychology.
1. On the Library's home page
select Databases
2. Click the drop-down menu
Select a Subject located under Browse the Subject List of Databases
3. Scroll down to
Psychology, click
Go
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Off Campus
Access
Students,
faculty, and staff can access the majority of electronic databases and
indexes available at Chesnutt Library from computers located off-campus.
1. On the
Library's home page select
Off-Campus Access
(located under Services near the bottom of the page).
2. Read the
information and click
Create a PIN now
3.
Enter the requested information, including a new pin at least 4 digits
long.
4. A similar
screen will pop up prompting you to enter the PIN two more times.
5. If
successful you be in My Library Record. If you receive an error or invalid
PIN message contact the Circulation desk at 910-672-1231 for help.
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