BOOKS

CONSULS:  Use CONSULS to find books in Eastern's library, as well as journals, CDs, videos, and microforms.  From the CONSULS homepage you can also log into your library account to renew books and request books from the libraries on the Central, Southern, and Western campuses.

Call Numbers for Psychology

You can browse these call numbers for books in psychology, both in the Reference Section of the library (2^nd floor) and in the main stacks (3^rd floor).

Subclass BF

Subclass RC

Subclass RJ

Subject Headings (Library of Congress Subject Headings) for Psychology

The CONSULS library catalog uses subject headings from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) list.  A complete set (five volumes) of the latest version of this list is kept in the Reference Index area on the second floor of the library. 

Below are some sample LSCH headings for psychology topics.  Consult the LSCH to find additional headings, or use the CONSULS keyword search instead of the subject search.   (Keyword search does not use the LCSH headings.)

Apperception

Child psychology

Cognitive psychology

Developmental psychology

Educational psychology

Emotions

Motivation (Psychology)

Neuropsychology

Psychobiology

Psycholinguistics

Psychological tests

Psychology--Comparative

Psychology--Methodology

Psychology--Research

Psychology, Applied

Senses and sensation

Stress (psychology)

Women--Psychology

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Research Databases for Psychology

These databases are usually the best ones to search for articles on psychology topics:

MEDLINE

MEDLINE is a database of article citations and abstracts (brief summaries) that is produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. MEDLINE contains records for journal articles in the fields of medicine, biological and physical sciences, dental medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, allied and public health, and the health care system.  MEDLINE is a very large database with records for articles from over 4,800 biomedical journals. You can search MEDLINE by keyword or by subject.  Subject headings come from a specialized thesaurus called MeSH (for “Medical Subject Headings”).

PsycARTICLES

PsycARTICLES contains the full-text (in PDF format) of articles from forty-five journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), along with eight journals from affiliated organizations (i.e, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.)  The coverage runs from 1985 to present.

PsycINFO

PsycINFO is a very large database of citations and abstracts (not full-text) to journal articles, books, individual chapters of books, and scholarly dissertations in psychology and related behavioral and health sciences. Although PsycINFO itself does not provide articles, it does contain links to articles in some other databases, including PsycARTICLES.   PsycINFO offers both basic and advanced search screens that let you apply various search limits, keyword searching, and subject searching, using specialized headings from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. 

A special note about finding psychological tests in PsycINFO: PsycINFO Help recommends that you start by searching to find the names of tests that have been used in research and written about in the literature. Test names appear in both the Abstract field and the Tests & Measures field. If the document includes the actual test in its entirety, it is marked as "Appended" in the Tests & Measures field.

Social Sciences Citation Index

The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is part of Thomson’s Web of Science. SSCI provides bibliographic coverage (with abstracts) of over 1,700 scholarly social sciences journals, as well as selected entries for articles from approximately 3,300 additional journals in the fields of science and technology. Although you can search the database by topic, SSCI is best known for providing a special type of searching known as “cited reference searching.” Cited reference searching lets you search for articles that refer to a specified author or work. A tutorial is available from a link near the bottom of the opening page.

NOTE:  The library’s general subject databases, such as Academic OneFile and Academic Search Premier, also contain articles on topics in psychology.  If you use these databases, make sure that you limit your searches to “peer reviewed” or “refereed” publications.

How to Find Out If the Library Owns a Journal

Search the ECSU Journal Locator to find journals that are available to Smith Library researchers, whether in print or online.  The Journal Locator provides links to both full-text journals in databases and online journals to which the library subscribes.  For online/electronic sources, follow the links to the right volume and issue. 

CONSULS contains records for all the library’s print and microform journals and some online journals.  Use the Journal Title search type to look up a journal name in CONSULS.

REFERENCE RESOURCES: PRINT AND ONLINE

Here are some psychology books in the Smith Library reference collection:

APA dictionary of psychology.  Gary R. VandenBos, editor in chief.  Washington, D.C.:  American Psychological Association, c2007. (ECSU Reference BF31.A63 2007)

Comprehensive handbook of psychological assessment.  Michel Hersen, editor in chief.  Hoboken, N.J.:  John Wiley & Sons, c2004.(ECSU Reference BF176.C654 2004 v.1-4)

Concise Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science [electronic resource].  W. Edward Craighead and Charles B. Nemeroff, editors. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2004. (Link to online)

Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science.  W. Edward Craighead and Charles B. Nemeroff, editors. New York: Wiley, c2001. (ECSU Reference BF31.C725 2001 v.1-4)

Developmental psychopathology.  Dante Cicchetti and Donald J. Cohen, editors. 2nd edition. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, c2006. (ECSU Reference RC454.4.D483 2006 v.1-3)

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-IV-TR.  4th edition, text revision. Washington, DC:  American Psychiatric Association, c2000. (RC455.2.C4 D536 2000  2 hour reserve)

Dictionary of cognitive science: neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, and philosophy.  Olivier Houdé, editor, with Daniel Kayser ... [et al.] ; Vivian Waltz, translator; Christian Cavé, scientific advisor.  New York: Psychology Press, 2004. (ECSU Reference BF311.V56713 2004)

Encyclopedia of behavior modification and cognitive behavior therapy.  Michel Hersen, editor in chief.  Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2005. (ECSU Reference RC489.B4 E485 2005 v.1-3)

Encyclopedia of psychology.  Alan E. Kazdin, editor in chief.  Washington, D.C.:  American Psychological Association; Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. (ECSU Reference BF31.E52 2000 v.1-8)

Gale encyclopedia of mental disorders.  Ellen Thackery and Madeline Harris, editors.  Detroit: Thomson Gale, c2003. (ECSU Reference RC437.G35 2003 v.1-2)

Handbook of child psychology.  William Damon, editor-in-chief.  New York: J. Wiley, c1998. (ECSU Reference BF721.H242 1998 v.1-4)

Handbook of child and adolescent psychiatry.  Joseph D. Noshpitz, editor-in-chief; Stanley Greenspan, Serena Wieder, Joy Osofsky, editors. New York: Wiley, c1997-c1998. (ECSU Reference RJ499.3 H356 1997 v.1-7)

Handbook of clinical child psychology.  C. Eugene Walker and Michael C. Roberts, editors. 3rd edition. New York: Wiley, c2001. (ECSU Reference RJ503.3.H36 2001)

Handbook of infant mental health.  World Association for Infant Mental Health. Joy D. Osofsky and Hiram E. Fitzgerald, editors. New York: Wiley, c2000. (ECSU Reference RJ502.5.H362 2000 v.1-4)

Handbook of psychology. Irving B. Weiner, editor-in-chief. New York: Wiley, c2003. (ECSU Reference BF121.H1955 2003 v.1-10)

Handbook of racial-cultural psychology and counseling.  Robert T. Carter, editor.  Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley & Sons, c2005. (ECSU Reference RC455.4.E8 H368 2004 v.1-2)

International handbook of psychology. Kurt Pawlik and Mark R. Rosenzweig, editors.   London; Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 2000. (ECSU Reference BF121.I58 2000)

Mental measurements yearbook. Highland Park, N.J.: The Mental Measurements Yearbook, 1941- current.  (ECSU Reference Z5814.P8 B91 15th and previous editions)

Psychiatry.  Allan Tasman, Jerald Kay, and Jeffery A. Lieberman, editors.  2nd edition. Chichester, West Sussex, England: J. Wiley & Sons, c2003. (ECSU Reference RC454.P7816 2003 v.1-2)

Stevens' handbook of experimental psychology.  Hal Pashler, editor-in-chief.  New York: John Wiley & Sons, c2002. (ECSU Reference BF181 .H336 2002 v.1-4)

Tests: A comprehensive reference for assessment in psychology, education, and business.  Taddy Maddox, editor.  5th edition.  Austin, Texas: Pro-Ed, c2003. (ECSU Reference BF176.T43 2003; library also has 4th edition, c1997)

Tests in print VI: an index to tests, test reviews, and the literature on specific tests. Linda L. Murphy ... [et. al.], editors. Lincoln, Neb.: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

WEB RESOURCES IN PSYCHOLOGY

Psychology Department

American Psychological Association

       APA FAQ About Finding Information on Psychological Tests

       APA State Psychological Associations

       APA Students’ Page

       APA Style Tips

APS Psychology Links

Buros Institute’s Test Reviews Online
Note: Reviews cost $15, but you can look up a test by name, keyword, or category and find a review in the Mental Measurements Yearbook(ECSU Reference Z5814.P8 B91).

Association for Psychological Science

Psychology Classics