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BOOKS

Books can be searched in EUREKA by author, title, subject, or keyword. Examples of general Psychology subject headings are:

Adolescent Psychology
Animal Behavior
Child Psychology
Cognition
Developmental Psychology
Mental Health
Personality
Psychiatry
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DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS
APA Dictionary of Psychology ref BF 31 V295 2006
Counseling Dictionary ref BF 637 C6 G5332 2006
Dictionary of Biological Psychology ref QP 360 D52 2001
Dictionary of Multicultural Psychology ref GN 502 H336 2005
Dictionary of Personal Development ref BF 637 S4 T67 2002
Dictionary of Psychological Testing, Assessment and Treatment ref BF 176 S78 2007
The Dictionary of Psychology   ref BF 31 C65 2001
Encyclopedia of Aging  (ebook)
Encyclopedia of Aging ref HQ 1061 E53 2006 v. 1-2
Encyclopedia of Psychology   ref BF 31 E52 2000 v.1-8
Encyclopedia of School Psychology   ref LB 1027.55 E52 2004
Encyclopedia of Stress   ref BF 575 S75 E52 2000
Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders  (ebook)
    Also available at ref RC 437 G35 2003 vol. 1-2
Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health ref RC 437 G36 2008
Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology  (ebook)
    also available at ref BF 31 G35 2001
Handbook of Psychology  ref BF 121 H1955 2003 vol. 1-12
International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family  (ebook)
    Also available at ref HQ 9 E52 2003 vol. 1-4
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying  (ebook)
    Also available at ref HQ 1073 M33 2003 vol. 1-2
Psychiatry   RC 454 P7816 2003 v.1-2
Student's Dictionary of Psychological Terms 2 South BF 31 S34 2000
  
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HANDBOOKS
Handbook of Child Psychology v.1-4   ref BF 721 H242 2006
Handbook of Consumer Psychology 2 South HF 5415.32 H363 2008
Handbook of Health Psychology   ref R 726.7 H3645 2001
Handbook of Psychology ref BF 121 H1955 2003 vol. 1-12
Handbook of Psychotherapy and Religious Diversity   ref RC 489 R46 2000
Handbook of Racial-Cultural Psychology and Counseling
    ref RC 455.4 E8 H368 2005 vol.1-2
Handbook of Rehabilitation Psychology   ref R 726.7 H366 2000
Key Words in Multicultural Interventions   ref BF 637 C6 K493 1999
New Handbook of Psychotherapy and Counseling with Men   ref BF 637 C6 N485 2001
  
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BIOGRAPHIES
Subject search EUREKA for individual psychologists, e.g. Vygotsky or Freud.

Biographical Dictionary of Psychology   ref BF 109 A1 B56 1997
A History of Psychology in Autobiography   ref BF 105 H5 v.1 (1930)-9 (2007)
  
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LITERATURE REVIEWS
Advances in Child Development and Behavior 1963-current  2 South BF 721 A45
Annual Review of Neuroscience 1997-current
    also available in paper at ref QP 351 A68 1978-2005
Annual Review of Psychology 1996-current
    also available in paper at ref BF 30 A56 1950-2005
  
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TEST DIRECTORIES
Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures   ref BF 431 G625 v.1-9
ETS Test Collection Cumulative Index 1975-2000   ref LB 3051 E32 2000
Measures of Personality and Social Psychological Attitudes   ref BF 698.4 M38 1990
Mental Measurements Yearbook
    Also available at ref LBZ 5814 P8 B932 2005
Test Critiques ref BF 176 T419 v,1-11
Tests: a Comprehensive Reference for Assessments in Psychology, Education,
    and Business
 ref BF 176 T43 2003
Education: Tests and Test Critiques
    A CSUS Library Research Guide for locating tests in the Library
  
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FIND ARTICLES
Online Indexes
These databases can be found through the Library Home Page under Resources & Collections, Database & Article Searching or All Databases, Listed Alphabetically. Databases and indexes can be accessed via the Library computers or on-campus computer labs. Unless noted otherwise; electronic indexes are restricted to CSUS students, faculty, & staff. Instructions for off-campus access are available at Off-Campus Access to Library E-Resources .
  • CINAHL Plus with Full Text (1937-current)
    The online version of Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature provides access to over 3,000 journals. CINAHLŽ covers nursing and allied health Updated monthly.
  • PsycINFO (1887-current)
    Provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,700 journals from over 50 countries. This database, provided by the American Psychological Association, also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters ranging in date from 1887 to the present.
  • PsycARTICLES (Ebsco)
    A full text database of about 60 journals including APA journals.
  • GenderWatch
    A full text database focusing on gender impacts on various subject areas. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports
  • PubMed (1950-current)
    From the U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health; covers all areas of medicine, dentistry, nursing, health administration, genetics, biology, and nuturition. Indexes over 5,000 journals. Free to the public (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi)
  • Philosopher's Index
    The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database covering scholarly research in the fifteen fields of philosophy, published in journals and books since 1940. 80% of the records are taken from journal articles, with the remaining 20% taken from books and contributions to anthologies. Over 560 journals are covered, from 40 countries.
  • Mental Measurements Yearbook  (Vol. 9-current)
    A comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments
  • Sociological Abstracts (1963-current)
    Indexes more than 2,700 journals covering sociology and related disciplines including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies. From 1963-current. Thesaurus of Sociological Indexing Terms 2 North Index Area HMZ 1 .S671999 and online.
  • Test in Print (Ebsco)
    A comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Tests are linked to reviews published in the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY)
  
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DISSERTATIONS AND THESES
Dissertations and Theses  (Dissertations 1980-current; Theses 1988-current)
Dissertation Abstracts International 1950-2005.  Index Area LBZ 5055 .U49 D5
Finding CSUS Masters Theses & Projects
     http://library.csus.edu/guides/rogenmoserd/general/mastersthesis.html
  
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RESOURCE GUIDES
Guide to Publishing in Psychology Journals   ref BF 76.8 G85 2000
Graduate Study in Psychology   ref BF 77 A47 2007
GRE Psychology   ref BF 78 P34 2001
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association   ref BF 76.7 P83 2001
Writing Empirical Research Reports.   ref LB 2369 P97 2000
  
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INTERNET RESOURCES
  • APA Style Guide  /guides/blackmer/APAstyle.htm
  • American Psychological Association Help Center.   http://helping.apa.org/
    The American Psychological Association (APA) Help Center offers useful facts, information, and advice on how psychological services that can help people cope with problems such as stress, depression, family strife, or chronic illness.
  • Annual Reviews in the Social Sciences    http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/socialhome.dtl
    Annual Reviews has placed the full text of all titles in the Physical and Social Sciences suites on line, including all six Social Sciences titles: Anthropology, Energy and the Environment, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, and Sociology. Online full-text content for the Social Sciences.
  • Cogprints: Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archive http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
    Associated with the eLib Programme this site offers hundreds of full-text scholarly papers related to the study of cognition. Users will find papers in fields such as Philosophy, Psychology, Linguistics, Biology, and Computer Science.
  • PSYCHLINE:Your Guide to Psychology and Social Science Journals on the Web
    http://www.psycline.org/
    Created and maintained by Armin Gunther and Martien Brand, this metasite indexes over 2,000 online psychology and social science journals published in English, German, French, Dutch, and Spanish.
  • PsycINFO Search Help Center   http://www.apa.org/psycinfo/training/
    Produced by the American Psychological Association, this website provides links to tips on searching the PsycINFO database as well as example searches.
  • Psychological Research on the Net   http://psych.hanover.edu/research/exponnet.html
    Maintained by Hanover College this site presents an extensive annotated list of psychological research currently being conducted on the Web.
  • PsycWeb  http://www.psychwww.com/
    Created and maintained by Georgia Southern professor of psychology Russell Dewey, this Website offers a wealth of materials for students and researchers in the general field of psychology. Perhaps the site's most impressive feature is a searchable journals database.
  • School Psychology Resources Online  http://www.schoolpsychology.net/
    With over 1,000 annotated links, this Website offers a directory of online resources in the broad field of school psychology. Resources are divided into two categories: Specific Conditions, Disorders, and Disabilities, and Other Information.
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