Psychology

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 full-text 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 full-text database
OmniFile Full Text Mega- multi-disciplinary database, with much full-text content 
ScienceDirect - selected full-text scholarly content from the Elsevier publisher
Social Sciences Full Text - standard resource, with full text content of over 200 journals
Wiley Online Library - 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 full text 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.

Dr. Frank Quinn, Director of Ryan Library and Psychology Department Liaison
619-849-2338
fquinn@pointloma.edu