Birmingham-Southern College
 Charles Andrew Rush Learning Center & N. E. Miles Library

PSYCHOLOGY
Sources in the BSC Library
 

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Colman, A.W. (2001).  A dictionary of psychology.  Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
Ref. BF31 .C65 2001 (also online)

Corsini, R.J. (Ed.). (1994). Encyclopedia of psychology (2^nd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Ref. BF31 .E52 1994 (vols. 1-4)

Corsini, R. J., & Auerbach, A. J. (Eds.). (1996). Concise encyclopedia of psychology (2^nd ed.).  New York: Wiley.
Ref. BF31 .E553 1996

Kazdin, A. E. (Ed.). (2000). Encyclopedia of pyschology. New York: Oxford U. Pr.
Ref. BF31 .E52 2000 (vols. 1-8).

Kuper, A., & Kuper, J. (Eds.). (1996). The social science encyclopedia (2^nd ed.). London; New York: Routledge.
Ref. H41 .S63 1996

Reber, A.S. & Reber, E.S. (2001). Penguin dictionary of psychology (2^nd ed.). London: Penguin.
Ref. BF31 .R43 2001

Sills, D.L. (Ed.). (1968-1979). International encyclopedia of the social sciences. New York: MacMillan.
Ref. H41 .I5 (vols. 1-19)

Sutherland, N.S. (1996). The international dictionary of psychology (2^nd ed.) New York: Crossroad.
Ref. BF31. S83 1996

Winn, P. (Ed.). (2001). Dictionary of biological psychology.  London: Routledge.
Ref. QP360 .D52 2001

Wolman, B.B. (Ed.).(1996). Encyclopedia of psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis. New York: Holt.
Ref. RC437 .E49 1996

Handbooks and Literature Reviews

Advances in experimental social psychology (vol. 1, 1964 - ). New York: Academic Press.
HM251. A35        Library has vols. 1-3, 13-18, and 20-present.

American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4^th ed.). Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association.
Ref. RC455 .2 .C4 D536 2000

American Psychological Association. (1998). Graduate study in psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Ref. BF77 .G73 1998

American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5^th ed.). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Ref. BF76 .7 .P83 2001  (A second copy is in Ready Ref.)
**An online guide to APA style is available at http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html 
**APA’s guidelines for citing electronic sources are at http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

Annual review of psychology. (vol. 1-, 1950-). Stanford, CA: Annual Reviews.
BF30 .A56 Also available online (1996-present) at http://psych.annualreviews.org

Damon, W. (Ed.). (1998). Handbook of child psychology (5^th ed.). New York: J. Wiley.
BF721 .H242 1998     Library has vols. 1 - 4.

Dyer, C. (1995).  Beginning research in psychology: A guide to research methods and statistics.  Oxford: Blackwell. 
BF76.5 .D94 1995.

Gilbert, D.T., Fiske, S.T. &  Lindzey, G. (Eds.). (1998). Handbook of social psychology (4^th ed.).  New York: Oxford University Press.
Ref. HM251 .H224 1998 (vols. 1-2)

Mental measurements yearbook. (1938-). Highland Park, NJ: The mental measurements yearbook.
Ref. Z5814 .P8 B932     Library has the 6^th, 7^th, 10^th, 11^th, 12^th,,13^th , 14^th and 15^th editions.

Mayne, T. (2000) Insider’s guide to graduate programs in clinical and counseling psychology. New York: Guilford Press.
Ref. RC467 .7 .I57 2000-2001

Rosnow, R.L., & Rosnow, M. (1992). Writing papers in psychology: a student guide. (2^nd ed.).  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishers.
BF76 .7 .R67 1992

Sternberg, R.J. (Ed.) (2000). Guide to publishing in psychology journals. Cambridge, U.K.; New York : Cambridge University Press.
BF76.8 .G85 2000

Weiner, I.B. (Ed.) (2003).  Handbook of Psychology.  New York: Wiley.
Ref. BF121 .H1955 2003 (vols. 1-12) 

"Regular" Books  

The library has a good collection of books in the field of psychology, selected by faculty members over the years. You can access this collection by looking in I-Link, our online catalog, accessible from the Library homepage. You can search by words or phrases as well as by author, title or subject. Circulating books are located on the second floor of the Library.  Books available at other libraries can be found by consulting WorldCat, an international union catalog.

Psychology Indexes and Databases

The following indexes are accessible from the Library's Indexes & Databases web page: 

PsycINFO (1872-present)
The premier psychology database!  Contains citations and summaries of journal articles (with some available full text); citations to book chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations, all in the field of psychology, are also included. Journal coverage, spanning 1872-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,900 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present.

PsycArticles (1988-present)
A searchable database of over 30,000 full-text articles from 50 journals and chapters published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.

Social Sciences Full Text (1983-present)
Bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from more than 500 English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, and offers the full text of over 100 of those periodicals (for recent years). Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles.

ERIC (1966-present)
Provides citation and abstract information from nearly 1000 educational journals, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, and standards and guidelines from the Educational Resource Information Center and educational symposium report literature.  Also includes full-text digests on education topics.

PubMed (1966-present)
The National Library of Medicine bibliographic database, covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and healthcare. It includes bibliographic citations and author abstracts from nearly 4000 current biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. The file contains over 11 million records dating back to 1966. Coverage is international, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts.

Sociological Abstracts (1963-present)
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews from over 1,700 journals, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Infotrac's Expanded Academic Index, EBSCOHost's Academic Search Elite, Lexis-Nexis Academic, and ProQuest's Research Library are among the general periodicals indexes which are available from the Library's Indexes & Databases page. Each cover some psychology journals, as well as general interest publications, and provide access to articles in full text.

Psychology Journals

The library subscribes to a number of journals in the field of psychology, in print and via PsycArticles.  A list of current print subscriptions follows; for a list of journals covered in PsycArticles, see http://orgs.bsc.edu/libref/psycjournals.htm.  Additional journals are available through other full-text databases.  For exact information on holdings and format, consult Periodicals @ BSC, a comprehensive list of magazines and journals available in the BSC Library (in print or microfilm) and full-text through the Library's electronic databases.   And remember: the BSC Library offers interlibrary loan service for articles and books not available locally - simply fill out an interlibrary loan request form.

Psychology journals currently received in print at BSC:

American journal of orthopsychiatry                                       
Annual review of psychology                                                  
Behavior therapy                      
Child development                                       
Cognitive psychology                                                         
Educational and psychological measurement                                    
Evolution and human behavior                    
Journal of applied behavior analysis                                                                                     
Journal of applied social psychology                                          
Journal of experimental social psychology                                    
The Journal of general psychology                                             
The Journal of nervous and mental disease                                    
Journal of personality                                                       
The Journal of psychology           
Journal of social issues                                        
The Journal of social psychology
Learning and motivation                                             
Monitor on Psychology
Political behavior
Psychological reports                                                        
Psychology of women quarterly
Psychology today         
Psychophysiology            

Selected Internet Resources  

American Psychological Association homepage.  http://www.apa.org

American Psychological Society homepage. http://www.psychologicalscience.org

CyberPsychLink, an interesting portal to an assortment of psychology websites.  http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/dmartin/psych2.html 

Electronic Journals and Periodicals in Psychology and Related Fields (from Hanover College). http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/journal.html

PsychCrawler, the APA's index to "quality content" in psychology. http://www.psychcrawler.com

Psychology Online Resource Central, a collection of links of interest to psychology students. http://www.psych-central.com/ 

PsychWeb, a compendium of information for students and teachers. http://www.psywww.com/

 

Remember:As you work through the research process,
please feel free to ask the library staff for help at any point.