CONTENTS
Articles
Books
InterLibrary Loan
Web Resources
Citation Help
Additional Research Help
ARTICLES
The databases below are especially helpful for accessing articles and citations in your discipline.
If you are off-campus, use the link for off-campus access to our databases provided at the end of each description on the Find Articles page.
PsycINFO - scholarly journal articles, from 1887 to the present
ABI/Inform - excellent source on management, advertising, and organizational psychology
Academic Search Premier - large interdisciplinary database, with much fulltext content
AccessScience - McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online
Communication & Mass Media Complete - communication, mass media, and journalism
ERIC - large database; for education, human development, child psychology, and more
JSTOR - large, interdisciplinary fulltext database
OmniFile Full Text Mega- multi-disciplinary database, with much full-text content
ProQuest Psychology Journals - choose "Psychology" from the Database pull-down menu
ScienceDirect - selected fulltext scholarly content from the Elsevier publisher
Social Sciences Full Text - standard resource, with full text content of over 200 journals
Wiley InterScience - fulltext scholarly journals in psychology and other disciplines
Click here for all Ryan Library databases.
BOOKS
Check Phineas, Ryan Library's online catalog, for hardcopy books.
The databases NetLibrary Collection and Oxford Reference Online have full-text books online.
Google Books is another good place to begin a book search and includes fulltext of many public domain books.
WorldCat searches the holdings of thousands of libraries worldwide.
Below is a representative list of subject encylopedias held at Ryan Library's reference area.
Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
Encyclopedia of Psychology
Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy
Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Handbook of Psychology
International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
Mental Measurements Yearbook
INTERLIBRARY LOAN
Use InterLibrary Loan (LINK+ and ILLiad) to access books and articles not held at Ryan Library.
WEB RESOURCES
Psychology
AmoebaWeb - excellent web portal, maintained by Dr. Douglas Dedelman, Vanguard University of Southern California
FAQ / Finding Information About Psychological Tests - from the American Psychological Association
Scirus - comprehensive scientific search engine
Social Psychology Network - superior portal site, maintained by Dr. Scott Plous, Wesleyan University
Test Reviews Online - includes index to the Mental Measurements Yearbook
Directories
BUBL Link
InfoMine
Librarians' Internet Index
Search Engines
Google Advanced - provides more options for your search strategy
Google Scholar - Google search of scholarly content
Zuula - A meta-search engine that searches more than one search engine at a time.
CITATION HELP
Endnote is a Web-based tool for managing and citing references in papers and creating bibliographies. EndNote has numerous citation styles including APA, MLA, Chicago (Turabian). EndNote is available to current members of the PLNU community.
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH HELP
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