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 Online Databases
and Websites in Psychology 
Citation Guides - correct
format for proper documentation
Databases - scholarly
material, citation only or full text
E Books - use free electronic texts when
you can't find the printed book
Government Resources - reliable
government reports
Quick Reference -
quality, credible, and timely
reference resources -mostly all are free
Specialized Search Engines - gateways to
subject specific material
Web Directories - subject guides
to selective and carefully chosen sites on the Web
Web Resources -
selected list of sites freely available on the Web
Web Search in a Nutshell -
getting started in library research
Subscription Databases Available
Only to the WSC Community
Oxford Dictionary of
Psychology
- 2nd ed. (2006) Oxford Reference Online. 11,000 entries.
Library Journal calls this reference work sound, readable, reliable,
probably the best single-volume dictionary of its kind.
Psychology: Journals, Magazines -
provides abstracts and indexing for more than 610 titles, with
over 520 titles available in full text.
Coverage represents a range of
psychology disciplines including behavioral,
clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial,
personality, physiological, psychobiology, psychometrics and social
psychology.
ProQuest
Social Science Journals -
a definitive resource for those who need access to a variety of
specialized journals. The database includes
over 510 titles, with more than 280 available in full text.
Information on hundreds of topics including
addiction studies, family studies, urban studies and international
relations.
- Psych
INFO - Over 1.5
million records from 1887 to the present in what is considered to be the
most comprehensive international database of psychology. Includes academic
research and practice literature in the fields of medicine, psychiatry,
education, social work, social science and organizational behavior.
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Academic Search Complete indexes both popular and academic
periodicals in all subject areas.
Search
Tips (PDF)
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection.
This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including 550
peer-reviewed titles.
Nearly every full text title included in
this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated
daily.
Academic
One File
indexes
peer-reviewed, full text articles available in HTML or PDF formats from
the world's leading journals and reference sources. Also has full text
New York Times content back to 1995, hundreds of podcasts and
transcripts from radio and television broadcasts.
Search Tips
(PDF)
Access
to this database is made possible by funding from the Massachusetts
Board of Library Commissioners, and the six Massachusetts Regional
Library Systems.
MEDLINE
- created by the National Library of Medicine, users can search
abstracts from over 4,000 current biomedical journals. Authoritative medical
information on medicine, nursing, psychiatry, the health care system, and more. We have 3 different ways to access MEDLINE:
Need help
choosing
between platforms? (3 pages, PDF)
Citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals and
related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center, and report literature.
There are over 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. 107,000 full
text non-journal documents (ED numbers issued 1993-2004) are now
available for free.
2 page overview of
The ERIC
Database (PDF).
We have 3 different ways to access ERIC:
Public Affairs International. Public
affairs and worlds issues with coverage from 1972 to the present. An
index to over 1/2 million articles, books, government documents,
Internet sites and documents from more than 120 countries. Obviously useful for global issues
such as affirmative action, AIDS, ethnicity, climate change, political
persecution, women's rights, war and conflict, etc.
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Other Web
Resources - selective list of free sites
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Amoeba Web
- psychology web sources of all
types; a great site to start with.
Vanguard University of Southern California.
- Encyclopedia
of Psychology - Dept. of Psychology at Jacksonville (AL) State
University. Find "original information
generated by respected researchers and practitioners in various fields of
psychology" as well as a "hierarchical database of links to websites
providing information about scientific psychology." The search engines are
best used with simple terms.
- PsychCrawler
- sponsored by the APA; created to provide quick access to quality online
content in the field
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Psych
Topics
- APA's official site. Links to psych databases; search
feature and subject tree. Follow links to related articles and book
information.
- Psych Web
- for students and teachers of psychology. Site has received many web awards
for excellence.
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Psychology Matters -
ssearchable site;
compendium of psychological research that demonstrates the
application and value of psychological science in our everyday lives.
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Research Ethics
- institutional reviews, guidelines for research on humans and animals;
informed consent, ethical codes of professional societies
- Social
Psychology
- the largest social psychology database on the Internet. More
than 13,000 links related to psychology; browse topics or use its search
engine to search the site.
- Top
20 Psychology -also has sites in clinical, cognitive, educational,
social psychology; along with top sites in related fields of dreams,
history, psychologists, and test / quizzes.
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Government Resources
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Search Engines - Meta Sites
These are "gateway" sites: they don't have
psychology information, but link you to other sites that do. Less exciting than
Psychic Friends Network, but more practical.
- Hardin
Meta Directory - [of Internet Health Sources]. Access to comprehensive
sites on health-related subjects. It is a list of lists, but the best on the
'Net - it leads you to sites containing [mental] health information.
- Social
Science Information Gateway - aims to provide a trusted source of
selective, high quality information for researchers and students in the
social sciences. Part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.
- Mental
Help Net - largest and most comprehensive guide
on the Web; promotes mental health and
wellness education and advocacy
- MetaSites
- from the online Encyclopedia of Psychology
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Psychology WWW Virtual
Library -
. Sites listed on The Psychology Virtual Library
are inspected and evaluated for their adequacy as information sources before
they are linked. Maintained by
Dialogical.net
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Web
Directories
There are excellent subject
directories on the web. that can point you to the best online
resources in specific areas of psychology. These human
guides to the Internet are a great way to find the best of the Web, and
often find sites that can't be accessed by search engines.
The best ones to use
for scholarly material are:
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Librarians
Internet Index - Provides
a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy,
librarian-selected Internet resources. Covers a broad range of
subjects, has both a topical directory arrangement and search capabilities.
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InfoMine - Virtual library of
scholarly Internet resources.
Features
well organized access; notable for its
collection of annotated and indexed links.
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Academic Info -
gateway
to freely available academic resources on the web,
with annotated entries. General links, related topics, in
the news sections.
More
subject directories on the web
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