Psychology Research Guide
This guide provides information on key reference resources in psychology in both print and electronic formats.
- Indexes and Databases
- Psychological Tests
- Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- Web Guides
- APA Style
- Associations and Organizations
- E-Books
- E-Print Archives
- Online Guides and Tutorials
- New Books in Psychology & Neuroscience [new window]
Indexes and Databases
Use these tools to find citations, abstracts and/or full text materials on your topic. Both scholarly and popular articles are included.
Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycINFO indexes journal articles, dissertations, reports, books, book chapters, and other scholarly documents. The definitive resource in psychology, it indexes literature from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. Coverage is from 1872 - present. Guide to Searching PsycINFO
Indexes 8,500 research journals across the Social Sciences, Sciences and Arts & Humanities. Allows you to search for articles by subject, author, journal, and author address as well as for articles that cite a known author or work (citation searching). Coverage is from 1945 - present. See Guide to Using Web of Science
Medline is produced by the National Library of Medicine. Covers the broad field of biomedicine. Includes indexing in areas such as health psychology and clinical psychology. Coverage is from 1966 - present.
Social Sciences AbstractsIndexes journals from a wide variety of social science disciplines and interdisciplinary fields. These fields include psychology, sociology, urban studies, etc. Emphasis is on the United States with some international coverage. Coverage is from 1994 - present.
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
Covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Indexes 650 journals from 16 countries. A comprehensive source of social science and health information.
IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Includes references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected book chapters from 1951 - present.
PsycARTICLES (via Scholars Portal)
Provides full text access to 50 major psychology journals including all journals published by the American Psychological Association, and 3 Canadian Psychological Association journals. These journals are also indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage is from 1988-present for most journals. Interface allows full text searching across all journals.
History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields including history of psychology. The database integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (Technology and Culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. Updated quarterly, the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine covers 1975 to the present.
Provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities. Coverage of the database spans 1940 to present and includes various publication types (articles, books, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, etc). Also includes Current Primate References (CPR) containing the last 6 months of references, and Book Received in the last half year.
Psychological Tests
For an introduction to finding psychological tests, including tests available at York University, see Guide to Finding Tests.
Contains fulltext 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. Contains data from Yearbook 9 onwards. Guide to Finding Tests.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HaPI assists researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and evaluators, including students, to identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation (from the publisher).
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Encyclopedias are useful to get basic background information on a topic and are good places to start the research process. Dictionaries give brief definitions of unfamiliar words, terms and acronyms.
Encyclopedia of Psychology
Call Number: BF 31 E552 2000
Author: Alan E. Kazdin, editor
Publication Date: 2000
Location: SCOTT-REF
8 volumes. Entries include bibliographic references. Electronic access to individual volumes is available below:
- Vol. 1 (Ab-By)
- Vol.2 (Ca-De)
- Vol.3 (De-Go)
- Vol.4 (Go-Le)
- Vol.5 (Le-Op)
- Vol.6 (Op-Ra)
- Vol.7 (Ra-Sy)
- Vol.8 (Ta-Z)
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Provides articles on topics in the social sciences. Includes coverage of cognitive science, developmental psychology, social psychology, psychiatry, health studies, gender studies, etc. Online version allows for browsing entries, classified categories, index as well as full-text searching. Includes references.
MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
Organized into six domains of cognitive and brain sciences: (1) computational intelligence (2) culture, cognition, and evolution (3) linguistics and language (4) neuroscience (5) philosophy, and (6) psychology. Each section contains an extended series of brief entries.
Handbook of Psychology
Call Number: BF 121 H1955 2003
Author: Irving B. Weiner, editor
Publication Date: 2003
Location: SCOTT-REF
12 volumes organized thematically. Articles include substantial list of references.
Comprehensive Clinical Psychology
Call Number: RC 467 C597 1998
Author: Alan S. Bellack, Michel Hersen, editors
Publication Date: 1998
Location: SCOTT-REF
11 volume handbook organized thematically. Articles include substantial list of references.
Dictionary of Psychology
Call Number: BF 31 C72 1999
Author: Raymond J. Corsini
Publication Date: 1999
Location: SCOTT-REF
Online version of this 2001 Oxford dictionary by Andrew M. Colman includes 10,500 short entries.
Web Guides
Below are links to meta sites such as digital collections, subject specific search engines and other academic research guides. They are useful places to start your Internet research.
Classics in the History of Psychology
Provides full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 25 books and about 200 articles and chapters on-line. The site also contains links to over 200 relevant works posted at other sites.
Social Science Information Gateway: Psychology
An excellent list of selected Web resources in social psychology arranged by resource type (articles, databases, bibliographies, etc.).
Produced by the American Psychological Association to provide quick access to quality content in the field of psychology. Searches across newsletters, press releases, reports etc.
A guide to the branches and literature of personality psychology. Sections list online and print resources for each topic area. Provides links to research labs and web sites of personality researchers.
APA Style
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed.Corrections to the Manual, 6th ed.
The Owl at Purdue - APA
APA Style Manual from The Teaching of Psychology (APA)
Associations and Organizations
Below are links to professional, academic, advocacy and other types of associations in the field.
Canadian Psychological Association
Includes information on CPA, press releases, career information and job postings, fact sheets, etc.
American Psychological Association
Official web site for the largest association of psychologists in the world. Site contains conference info, job postings, programs, newsletters, press releases, etc. Some resources are for members only.
National Institute of Mental Health
The mission of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)in the United States is to diminish the burden of mental illness through research. Provides press releases, and information on mental heath research, conferences, etc.
E-Books
Provides searchable full-text access to over 800 psychology books, many published by APA. The 8-vol. Encyclopedia of Psychology is also available via PsycBooks. To browse this collection by title, select the Browse tab.
An interdisciplinary online collection in cognitive and brain sciences includes 7 MIT Press e-journals, over 400 online books, the MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences and other reference sources. Covers areas of cognitive science such as psychology, linguistics, computational intelligence, philosophy, and neuroscience.
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E-Print Archives
Open access archives of full text documents usually submitted by authors for wider distribution. Papers may be preliminary drafts or final versions.
An electronic archive for self-archived full text papers in psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, and many areas of computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology, as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. Can be searched or browsed by topic.
History & Theory of Psychology EPrint Archive
An archive of full text eprints submitted by authors for wider distribution in the areas of the history and theory of psychology. Pre-prints (drafts) and final versions of papers are included.
Online Guides and Tutorials
Step-by-step guide to using PsycINFO. Covers keyword searching, using the thesaurus, search limits, reading a record, and finding the material.
How to Find Information on Psychological Tests
A guide to finding information about psychological tests. Covers commercial and non-commercial (unpublished) tests and the use of such tools as the Mental Measurements Yearbook, and the Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures. Also discusses how to obtain tests at York University.
Guide to Cited Reference Searching
A brief guide on how to do cited reference searching using Web of Science. This method of searching allow you to find out who has cited an article after it was published. The guide explains the concept and how to use Web of Science.
Last modified by: Adam Taves on Fri Nov 20 13:56:08 EST 2009
