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Selected Resources in Psychology

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Books in the McCain Collection

Biography

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Thesauruses

Graduate Study

Guides, Manuals and Yearbooks

Style Manuals

Tests

Electronic Databases

Selected Websites

Books in the McCain Collection

Biography

: American Psychological Association. Directory. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1978 -.
Ref. BF11 .A67; A history of psychology in autobiography. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1930 -.
BF105 .H5 v. 1 - 8; Kimble, Gregory A., Michael Wertheimer and Charlotte White, eds. Portraits of pioneers in psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association; Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1991-.
BF109 .A1 P67 1991
Vols. 2 - 4 also available online via netLibrary:
Vol. 2: http://dbs.galib.uga.edu/cgi-bin/directions.cgi?code=zmnl&id=19355
Vol. 3: http://dbs.galib.uga.edu/cgi-bin/directions.cgi?code=zmnl&id=19354
Vol. 4: http://dbs.galib.uga.edu/cgi-bin/directions.cgi?code=zmnl&id=53969

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Thesauruses

: Bruno, Frank Joe. Dictionary of key words in psychology. Boston: Routledge, 1986.
Ref. BF31 .B78 1986; Corsini, Raymond J., ed. Encyclopedia of psychology. New York: Wiley, 1994.
Ref. BF31 .E52 1994 v. 1 - 4; Craighead, W. Edward and Charles B. Nemeroff, eds. Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science. 3rd ed. New York: Wiley, 2001.
Available online via netLibrary: http://www.netlibrary.com/ebook_info.asp?product_id=53430
: Gallagher, Lisa A., ed. Thesaurus of psychological index terms. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2005.
Ref. Z695.1.P7 T48 2005; Gregory, Richard L., ed. The Oxford companion to the mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Ref. BF31 .O94 1988
Also available online via netLibrary:
http://dbs.galib.uga.edu/cgi-bin/directions.cgi?code=zmnl&id=12405; Harre, Rom and Roger Lamb, eds. The encyclopedic dictionary of psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983.
Ref. BF31 .E555 1984; Kazdin, Alan E., ed. Encyclopedia of psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Ref. BF31 .E53 2000 v. 1 - 8

Graduate Study

: Getting in: a step-by-step plan for gaining admission to graduate school in psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1997.
BF80.7 .U6 G47 1997; Graduate study in psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1992 - .
Ref. BF77 .G73 1998

Guides, Manuals and Yearbooks

: Annual review of psychology. Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 1950 -.
BF30 .A56 1996 -.
Also available online via Annual Reviews 1996 -
http://psych.annualreviews.org/; Baxter, Pam M. Psychology: a guide to reference and information sources. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1993.
Ref. BF121 .B39; Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1994.
Ref. RC455.2.C4 D54 1994; Journals in psychology: a resource listing for authors. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1997.
Ref. BF76.8 .J68; Reed, Jeffrey G. Library use: a handbook for psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 1983.
BF76.8 .R43 1983; Reference handbook of research and statistical methods in psychology: for students and professionals. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
BF76.5 .R43

Style Manuals

: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001.
Reserve; Sternberg, Robert J. The psychologist’s companion: a guide to scientific writing for students and researchers. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Ref. BF76.8 .S73 1988

Tests

FAQ/Finding Information About Psychological Tests from the American Psychological Association (APA). Valuable guide on finding and using published and unpublished tests.

Mental Measurements Yearbook. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, 1938 -. Latest Edition: 17th, 2007. Earlier editions also in Reference. Information is not cumulative.
Ref. Z5814 .P8 B932

Complete list of tests reviewed in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series, from the 9th MMY (1985) through the present

Murphy, Linda L. et al., eds. Tests in Print V. . Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements. Latest edition: VI, 2002. Earlier editions also in Reference.
Ref. Z5814 .E9 T47

Sweetland, Richard C. and Daniel J. Kaiser, eds. Tests: a comprehensive reference for assessments in psychology, education and business. . Austin, TX: Pro-Ed, 1983.
Ref. BF176 .T43 1983

Goldman, Bert A., ed. Directory of unpublished experimental mental measures. Washington, DC [etc.]: American Psychological Association [etc.], 1974 -.
Ref. BF431 .G625 v. 1 - 8

PsycINFO

http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbpy

Search for an article referenced in Directory of unpublished experimental mental measures.

ERIC

If your topic is Education related, ERIC is another excellent source
Under Advanced Search, for Publication Type, select Tests/Evaluation Instruments

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Electronic Databases

PsycINFO
http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbpy
Includes citations and abstracts from journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertations, with some links to full-text. More than 1800 journals are indexed. Coverage is from 1887.

PsycARTICLES
http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbpa
Full-text database of approximately 50 journals in psychology, most published by the APA. Coverage is from 1988.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbpb
Includes citations, abstracts and some full-text from approximately 500 journals in psychology. Coverage is from 1984.

MEDLINE at EBSCOHost
http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbme
Includes citations, abstracts and some full-text from journals in medicine and related fields, including psychiatry. Coverage is from 1966, with full-text from 1990.

Dissertation Abstracts
http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zudi
Includes citations from dissertations and some master's theses, from 1861. Includes some dissertations completed internationally. Abstracts are included from mid-1980.

ERIC at EBSCOHost
Index and abstracts of articles, books, and documents covering education research and practice. Coverage is from 1966.

ERIC at FirstSearch
Index and abstracts of articles, books, and documents covering education research and practice. Coverage is from 1966.

Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Coverage includes Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences

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Selected Websites

: APA FAQ/Finding Information About Psychological Tests
http://www.apa.org/science/faq-findtests.html
FAQ based on inquiries received by the APA Science Directorate. Identifies basic test-related resources and gives direction for locating and evaluating psychological tests.; APA Style from the Writer's Handbook, UW Madison
http://www.wisc.edu/writetest/Handbook/DocAPA.html
Introduction to APA style with examples of citation formats.; APA Style.org - Electronic references
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
Contains excerpts from the 5th edition of the APA style manual, including examples for citation of electronic source materials.; Buros Institute Test Reviews Online
http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp
Citations to test reviews can be searched by keyword or browsed. Review itself must be found in our print volumes of Mental Measurements Yearbook; Classics in the History of Psychology
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/
Collection of "historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines." Can be browsed by author or topic, or searched.; Current Topics in Psychology
http://www.fenichel.com/Current.shtml
Collection of general and subject-specific websites related to psychology.; Encyclopedia of Psychology
http://www.psychology.org/
Large collection of links to psychology-related websites. Browse by category or search by keyword.; ETS Test Collection
http://www.ets.org/testcoll/index.html
Search for information on over 20,000 standardized tests and research instruments.; Internet Resources in Psychology and Related Disciplines
http://www.princeton.edu/~psychlib/links.htm
Large list of links compiled by the psychology librarian at Princeton University.; Psychology WWW Virtual Library
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/psi/
"Access to thousands of websites dealing with the numerous aspects of psychology, ranging from client-centered therapy to the history of the discipline."; SOSIG - Psychology
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/psych.html
Large collection of psychology-related Internet resources.

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