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 ELECTRONIC DATABASES

 
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
An indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.

Current Contents Connect
A weekly service that includes seven content databases covering approximately 6,600 unique journals in the areas of science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Current 12 months.

Dissertation Abstracts see ProQuest Dissertations and Theses or WorldCatDissertations
Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations
.

ERIC  (Available from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Database of educational materials collected by the Educational Resources Information Center of the U.S. Department of Education.

Health and Wellness Resource Center Provides bibliographic references, abstracts, and full-text information; a medical dictionary; excerpts from reference books; contact information for support groups; hotlines for research centers; and pamphlets issued by leading health organizations.

Human Genome Abstracts Human Genome Abstracts offers a comprehensive source for developments and promising applications emerging from international genome research, including the massive Human Genome Project.
Human Population & Natural Resource Management The database deals with issues arising from the conflict between the ever-increasing population of the Earth and the Earth's limited environmental and natural resources. Human Population & Natural Resource Management explores human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature has also been summarized.
Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective This resource is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Subjects include Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Dance, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Minority Studies, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Religion and Theology, Social Work, Sociology, and Urban Studies.

Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
Information from the world's largest archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences administered by the Institute for Social Resarch at the University of Michigan.

MEDLINE (First Search) (PubMED) The National Institute of Health-National Library of Medicine database that contains citations and abstracts from over 3700 journals. Covers all areas of medicine including clinical medicine, experimental medicine, dentistry, nursing, health services administration, nutrition, and more. Some full text articles are linked through OVID or FirstSearch.

Mental Measurements Yearbook Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text 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."
MIT Cognet
The CogNet Library is a growing collection of searchable electronic texts for cognitive and brain sciences.
PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) PILOTS is a bibliographic database produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont, and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, while offering both current and retrospective coverage. Document types covered include journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages.
Primate Lit The PrimateLit database 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 all publication categories (articles, books, abstracts, technical reports, dissertations, book chapters, etc.) and many subject areas (behavior, colony management, ecology, reproduction, field studies, disease models, veterinary science, psychology, physiology, pharmacology, evolution, taxonomy, developmental and molecular biology, genetics and zoogeography).
Project Muse 300+ scholarly journals in humanities, mathematics and social science disciplines.
PsycARTICLES
Contains the full text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF (Educational Publishing Foundation) journals, most from 1988 to the present.
PsycINFO PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection This resource provides access to the full text of 35 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 36 years, and encompasses over 21,600 articles. It covers such subjects as Applied Psychology, Assessment, Child Development, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology, Cultural Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Family Studies, Group Work, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Language Acquisition, Latin American Studies, Learning Disabilities, Measurement, Neuropsychology, Personality, Philosophical Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychology of Diversity, School Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

Sociological Abstracts CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.ed.

Web of Science Science Citation Abstracts (SCI) and Social Science Citation Abstracts (SSCI)
Multi disciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences. Indexes literature from over 5,700 (SCI) and 1,700 (SSCI) journals. Provides citations and author abstracts from 5300 major journals. Coverage from 1992.


 

SELECTED WEB SITES

Guide to Evaluating Websites

ALA EBSS Psychology Resource Guide
APA - PsycPORT News Wire
APA - Funding Opportunities for Students
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society

APA Style Resources - Links to APA syle guides and help sheets on the Internet

Assignment Calculator
  Becoming a Psychologist
The Brain From Top to Bottom
DCity Brain Games: Stroop Color Test
  Experimental Psychology Graduate Programs

FAU Department of Psychology

Graduate School Application Timeline
Guide to Psychology and its Practice
Interference: The Stroop Effect
NOVA Online Stroop Test
Owl at Purdue: APA Formatting and Style Guide
PsycCareer - APA's Online Career Center
Psi Chi - National Honor Society in Psychology

PsycSite: Science of Psychology

Psychology Graduate Applicant's Portal
The Psychology Wiki
Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards

Psych Web Resources

Research Methods and Statistics Links
The Research Process
Serendip
Social Psychology Network

 

INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS
 

REF QL751.A65 Animal Behavior Abstracts.  1982 to 1991.
REF HQ750.A1C47 Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography.  1927 to 1996.
REF BF121.P76 PsycBooks: Books & Chapters in Psychology.  1987 to 1990.
REF BF1 .P65 Psychological Abstracts.  1927 to 1995.
REF Z7203 .P97 Psychological Index : An Annual Bibliography of the Literature of Psychology and Cognate Subjects.  No. 1-42.
H.C. Warren, ed. 1894-1935.
REF Z7401 .S365 Science Citation Index.  1945 to 1995.
REF Z7161 .S65 Social Science Citation Index.  1966 to 1997.

 

GUIDES TO THE LITERATURE

REF BF76.8.W36 Author's Guide to Journals in the Behavioral Sciences.
A.Y. Wang.  1989.
REF BF76.8.L65 A Guide to Journals in Psychology and Education.
W.H. Loke.  1990.
REF BF76.8.R43 Library Use: A Handbook for Psychology.
J.G. Reed and P. Baxter. 1977.
REF BF76.8.S73 The Psychologist's Companion: A Guide to Scientific Writing for Students and Researchers. R.J. Sternberg. 1988.
REF Z7401.M278 Reference Sources in Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Agriculture.
H.R. Malinowsky.  1994.

 

DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

REF BF311.B535 Blackwell Dictionary of Cognitive Psychology.
M.W. Eysenck, ed.   1990.
REF HM251.B476 Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology.
A.S.R. Manstead and M. Hewstone, eds.  1995.
REF QP84 .C26 The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development.
S.J. Ulyaszek, F.E. Johnson and M.A. Preece, eds.  1998.
REF BF1.C66 Companion Encyclopedia of Psychology.
A.M. Colman.   1994.
REF BF31.D48 The Complete Dictionary of Sexology.
R.T. Francoer, ed.  1995.
REF BF31 .E518 2004 The concise Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science.
W. E. Craighead and C. B. Nemeroff (eds.). 2004 
REF BF31 .E52 The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science.
W.E. Craighead and C.B. Nemeroff, eds.  2000.
REF BF637 .C6 G5332 The Counseling Dictionary: Concise Definitions of Frequently Used Terms.
Samuel T. Gladding.  2001.
REF BF31.D48 Dictionary of Behavioral Science.  2nd ed.
B.B. Wolman.  1989.
REF BF712.7.S78 Dictionary of Developmental Psychology.
I. Stuart-Hamilton. 1995.
REF BF637 .C6 S73 Dictionary of Images and Symbols in Counseling.
William Stewart.  1998.
REF BF698 .D527 The Dictionary of Personality and Social Psychology.
Ron Harre and Roger Lamb, ed.  1986.
REF BF31 .C65 A Dictionary of Psychology.
Andrew M Colman.  2001.
REF BF31 .C72 A Dictionary of Psychology.
Raymoind J. Corsini.  1999.
REF BF176 .S78 Dictionary of Psychological Testing, Assessment and Treatment.
I. Stuart-Hamilton.  1995.
REF BF39 .E83 Dictionary of Statistics for Psychologists.
B.S. Everitt and T. Wykes.  1999.
REF BF31 .R625 A Dictionary of Theories, Laws, and Concepts in Psychology.
Jon E. Roeckelein.  1998.
REF BF724.5.E53 Encyclopedia of Adult Development.
R. Kastenbaum, ed.  1993.
REF RC537 .R63 Encyclopedia of Depression.  2nd ed.
Roberta Roesch.  2001.
REF BF531 .E55 The Encyclopedia of Human Emotions.
David Levinson, James J. Ponzetti, Jr., and Peter F. Jorgensen, eds.   1999
REF RA790.E53 Encyclopedia of Mental Health.
H.S. Friedman.  1998.
REF BF31 .E52 Encyclopedia of Psychology .
Alan E. Kazdin, ed.  2000.
REF BF1078.E63 Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreaming.
M.A. Cardkadon, ed.  1993.
REF BF575 S75 E52 Encyclopedia of Stress.
George Fink, ed.  2000.
REF BF31.G35 Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology.
S. Gall, ed.  1996.
REF BF31.S83 International Dictionary of Psychology.
S. Sutherland.  1996.
REF RC334.I57 International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Neurology.
B.B. Wolman, ed.  1977. 12 volumes.
REF RC334.I572 International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis & Neurology.  Progress volume.  1983.
REF BF173.E83 Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis.
D. Evans.  1996.
REF BF637 .C6 K493 Key Words in Multicultural Intervention: A Dictionary.
Jeffrey Scott Mio [et al], eds.  1999.
REF BF31.L48 A Lexicon of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis.
J. Kuper, ed.  1988.
REF BF311 .M556 The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences.  2nd ed.
Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil, eds.  1999.
REF BF31 .O94 The Oxford Companion to the Mind.
Richard L. Gregory, ed.  1987.
REF RC437.H5 Psychiatric Dictionary. 7th ed.
R.J. Campbell.  1996.

 

HANDBOOKS AND MANUALS

REF RC455.2
.M38Z823
Clinician's Thesaurus: the Guidebook for Writing Psychological Reports.
E.L. Zuckerman.  1995.
RC456 .C66 2005 Comprehensive handbook of personality and psychopathology.
BF76.7 .C66 2005 Concise rules of APA style. 2005
REF BF721.H242 Handbook of Child Psychology.   5th ed.
W. Damon, ed.   1998.
REF RC467 .H29 Handbook of Social and Clinical Psychology: A Health Perspective.
C.R. Snyder and Donelson R. Forsyth, eds.  1991.
REF BF181.H336 Steven's Handbook of Experimental Psychology.   2nd ed.
R.C. Atkinson, [et al], eds.  1988.
SHELVED IN CIRCULATING LIBRARY COLLECTION
REF BF1.A48 How to Use Psychological Abstracts and Biological Abstracts.
B. Allan and B. Strickland-Hodge.   1987.
SHELVED IN CIRCULATING LIBRARY COLLECTION
REF BF77.I62 International Handbook of Psychology.
A.R. Gilgen and C.K. Gilgen, eds.   1987.
REF BF76.7.P832 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.  4th ed.
2001.
LOCATED AT THE RESERVE DESK

 

DIRECTORIES

REF BF30 C25 Cabell's directory of publishing opportunities in psychology. 2005
REF AS22.E52 Encyclopedia of Associations.
LOCATED IN THE READY REFERENCE AREA
REF HD2425.D53 National Trade and Professional Associations of the United States.
LOCATED IN THE READY REFERENCE AREA

 

BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

REF Q141.A47 American Men and Women of Science.
17th ed. 1989/1990 and 18th ed. 1992/1993
EARLIER EDITIONS LOCATED IN CIRCULATING COLLECTION
REF BF109.A1Z85 Biographical Dictionary of Psychology.
L. Zusne.   1984.
REF Q141.D5 Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
v.1 - v.18.
BF105.H5 History of Psychology in Autobiography.
v.1 - v.3, v.5

 

CAREER/EDUCATION GUIDES

REF BF77.B87 Allyn & Bacon Guide to Master's Programs in Psychology and Counseling Psychology.
W. Buskist and A. Mixon.  1998.
REF BF76.C38 Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You.  1st ed.
R.J. Sternberg, ed.  1997.
REF RJ503.3.D56 Directory of Graduate Programs in Clinical Child and Pediatric Psychology.
K.J. Tarnowski and S.J. Simonian.  1997.
REF RJ503.3.D57 Directory of Internship and Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Clinical/Pediatric Psychology.
S.J. Simonian and K.J. Tarnowski.  1997.
REF BF77.G73 Graduate Study in Psychology 1998-1999 with 1999 Addendum.
1998.

 

TEST/TESTING

REF BF431. G624 Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures.
Bert Goldman, ed.  1974.
REF LB3051.E79 ETS Test Collection Catalog.
Educational Testing Service.  1986-1992.
v.1-v.4 LOCATED IN REFERENCE
v.1-v.6 LOCATED IN MICROFORMS AREA
REF LB3051.E79 ETS Test Collection Catalog.  2nd ed.
Educational Testing Service.  1992-
LOCATED IN MICROFORMS AREA
HQ728.H27 Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques.
J. Touliatos, B.F. Perlmutter and M.A. Straus, eds.  1990.
BF176.G76 Handbook of Psychological Assessment.  2nd ed.
G. Groth-Marnat.  1990.
REF BF469.E42 An International Directory of Spatial Tests.
J. Eliot and I.M. Smith.  1983.
BF176.M35 Major Psychological Assessment Instruments. 2nd ed.
C.S. Newmark, ed.  1996.
 
REF LB1131.B84 Mental Measurements Yearbook. 13th ed.
1998.
LOCATED IN READY REFERENCE AREA
REF BF176.2.K78 Psychware Sourcebook. 3rd ed.
S.E. Krug, ed.  1988.
REF BF176.T419 Test Critiques. v. 1-7.
D.J. Keyser, R.C. Sweetland, eds.  1968.
REF BF176.T43 Tests: A Comprehensive Reference for Assessments in Psychology, Education, and Business.
R.C. Sweetland, D.J. Keyser, eds.  1983.
REF BF176.T43 Tests: A Comprehensive Reference for Assessments in Psychology, Education, and Business. Supplement
Richard C. Sweetland, D.J. Keyser, eds.  1984.
REF BF176.T43 Tests: A Comprehensive Reference for Assessments in Psychology, Education, and Business. 2nd ed.
R.C. Sweetland, D.J. Keyser, eds.  1986.
REF BF176.T43 Tests: A Comprehensive Reference for Assessments in Psychology, Education, and Business. 4th ed.
Taddy Maddox, ed.  1997.
REF BF722.J643 Tests and Measurements in Child Development: A Handbook II.
Orval G. Johnson.   1976.
LB3051.T448 Tests in Microfiche. ETS Test Collection
Educational Testing Service.  1975-
LOCATED IN MICROFORMS AREA
REF Z5814.E9T47 Tests in Print IV.
L.L. Murphy, J.C. Conoley and J.C. Impara, eds.  1994.
LOCATED IN READY REFERENCE AREA
EARLIER EDITIONS LOCATED IN REF LB1131 .B8

 

THESAURI

REF Z695.1.E3E34 Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors.  14th ed.
J.E. Houston.  2001.
LOCATED AT THE REFERENCE DESK
REF Z695.1.P7T48 Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.  10th ed.
A. Walker, Jr. ed.  2004.
LOCATED AT THE REFERENCE DESK
REF Z695.1S63B66 Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms.  2nd ed.
B. Booth.  1989.
LOCATED AT THE REFERENCE DESK

 

STATISTICAL SOURCES

REF Z1223 Z7 C55 American Statistics Index.
Congressional Information Service.
LOCATED AT GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
REF HA17 .D45 Demographic Yearbook.  Annuaire Demographique.
United Nations.  1949 to present.
LATEST 10 YEARS IN REFERENCE
DOC C3. 134 Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Bureau of Statistics.
LATEST VOLUME LOCATED AT REFERENCE DESK
REF Z7554 .U5 S852 Statistical Reference Index.
Congressional Information Service.
LOCATED IN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
REF Z7551 .S84 Statistical Sources.
Gale Research Company.  1992.

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