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Below are a few major, frequently used sources for the study of psychology. Interdisciplinary indexes such as Expanded Academic ASAP, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Social Sciences Index also cover psychology. These can be found in the research guide to General Social Sciences. Please consult with a reference librarian for help with many sources in your topic. Internet resources require a Tufts I.D. number for off-campus access (authorized users statement). |
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Subject specific reference materials can help you to gain broad-based knowledge of your field, through vocabulary, factual information, additional references, and bibliographies.Some suggested print sources:
Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Psychoanalysis
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
Doing a subject search in the catalog allows you to retrieve specific types of sources.
In addition, the following electronic resources provide valuable information:
Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: DSM-IV-TR
The DSM-IV-TR is the electronic version of the latest revision
of the classic tool from the American Psychiatric Association
for diagnosis of mental disorders. It contains newly published
information on the associated features, culture, age, and gender
features, prevalence, course, and familial patterns of those disorders.
Mental
Measurements Yearbook (How
to search)
A guide to standardized psychological and educational tests. Includes
references to reviews, information about the tests, and how to
obtain them.
You can search for books about psychology in the library catalog in several ways:
Keyword
Searching
Type in words that describe your topic:
Developmental Psychology and Children
Subject
searching
If you know the Library of Congress subject heading used to describe
your area of research, you can search for a particular subject.
If you don't know the Library of Congress Subject Headings, speak
to a librarian for help. Some examples of subject searches are:
Books on psychology can be found under the call number range BF1-990; books on psychiatry can be found under the call number range RC435-571.
Find books in other libraries.
To locate books in other Boston Library Consortium libraries and request them, use the Boston Library Consortium Catalogs. To locate books in many libraries throughout the world, use WorldCat.
For more information on searching article indexes, see our Database Searching Tips page (also available in PDF).
AARP
AgeLine 1978-
Provides bibliographic references and original abstracts for materials
related to aging and middle age, from an interdisciplinary perspective
of economics, sociology, gerontology, public policy, business,
health and health care services, and consumer issues.
BIOSIS
Previews 1980-
A comprehensive life sciences database, incorporating Biological
Abstracts.
Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography 1927-
[PRINT. Tisch Reference Indexes [SOC] HQ750 .A1 C47]
Index to books and journals. Includes over 2,000 abstracts and
references annually.
Contemporary Psychology: A Journal of Reviews 1956-
[PRINT. Tisch Periodicals BF1 .C53]
Includes critical reviews of books and films in all fields of
psychology.
Current
Contents Connect 2001-
A current awareness index with a multidisciplinary focus, covering
over 8,000 of the world's scholarly journals grouped into the
following broad disciplinary areas: Agriculture, Biology, &
Environmental Sciences; Art & Humanities; Clinical Medicine;
Engineering, Computing & Technology; Life Sciences; Physical,
Chemical & Earth Sciences; Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Also included is access to ISI Current Web Contents.
ERIC
1984- (How
to search)
This major education index includes citations and abstracts to
journals, books, and documents. Includes material in child psychology.
Tisch Library subscribes to ERIC documents on microfiche from
1975 to the present.
Health
Reference Center 1980-
Articles on fitness, nutrition, public health, HMOs, etc.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
The IBSS has more than two million references to articles and books going back to 1951 in the social sciences. It is produced by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Linguistics
and Language Behavior Abstracts 1973- (How
to search)
The index covers all aspects of the study of language including
phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete
coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including
descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical
linguistics.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts 1967-
[PRINT. Tisch Reference Indexes [SOC] BF455 .A1 L15]
Provides abstracts to over 1,500 journals and reports, including
foreign material.
MEDLINE.
Ovid, 1966- Old
Medline, 1951-1965.
Worldwide coverage of the biomedical literature.
PILOTS
The PILOTS (Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress ) bibliographic database, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, includes citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and offers both current and retrospective coverage.
PsycINFO
1872-
PsycInfo indexes the professional and academic literature in psychology
and related disciplines, covering dissertations and over 1300
journals in more than 30 languages as well as book chapters and
books in English. Over 50,000 references are added annually.
Psychological Abstracts 1927-
[PRINT. Tisch Reference Indexes [SOC] BF1 .P65]
The most comprehensive index to the literature of psychology.
Indexes and abstracts more than 1,200 English-language journals,
reports and books.
Electronic journals
Periodicals held by Tufts are listed in the catalog. Holdings in all formats are unified in one record, and most entries for journals held in digital format contain a hyperlink to the source; searches in the catalog enable one to follow these links directly. A supplementary list of electronic journals is on the Tisch homepage under Electronic Journals. For an example of a catalog search for a journal, set the catalog's Type of Search to "Journal Title," and type in Annual Review of Psychology.
Many psychology journals held in digital format are parts of Project Muse or JSTOR. Others can be found in Science Direct or Wiley Interscience. Journals published by the American Psychological Association are available through OVID. Although these databases include search engines for the journals they contain, the indexes listed above are the most comprehensive and authoritative sources for the literature of the discipline, and frequently link directly to the journal article itself.
Tufts University Department of Psychology
CogNet
CogNet provides a collection of searchable electronic texts for
the cognitive and brain sciences containing works from the MIT
Press, as well as information on new research, job listings, discussion
groups and information on seminars and lectures.
Noetica: Cognitive Science Forum
American Psychological Association
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