Library: Psychology: Guide Home

Research Starter

Some strategies for starting research are:

Consult reference books and databases for quick information or an overview of a topic.
Find books and e-books for in-depth information or discussion on a topic.
Search journal indexes and databases for research from journal articles. Journals are likely to have the most current research.

Resources

APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
APA PsycBooks This link opens in a new window
CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window Contains full-text of the journal Psychology Today from 1992-present.
Credo Reference and Ebooks This link opens in a new window Credo Reference cover 11,000+ reference topics from all major academic subject areas and is a great starting point for research. Entries include images, quotations, audio files, videos, ebooks and full text articles on a variety of topics. In addition to reference topics, Credo includes over 700 academic reference books. Credo's Nursing and Allied Health Collection provides access to 23 current nursing ebooks.
Health Source - Consumer Edition This link opens in a new window Health Source: Consumer Edition is a rich collection of consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books, including books published by the People's Medical Society. Additionally, Health Source: Consumer Edition contains more than 4,500 Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish); AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which includes Drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers; and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Health Source: Consumer Edition covers topics such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, aging, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, women's health, etc.
Health Source Nursing/Academic This link opens in a new window Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong, including full text from Creative Nursing, Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, Issues in Mental Health Nursing, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Journal of Community Health Nursing, Journal of Nursing Management, Nursing Ethics, Nursing Forum, Nursing Inquiry, and many more. In addition, this database includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information, which includes Drug information monographs written in lay language for consumers.
PubMed This link opens in a new window PubMed comprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations include links to full-text content from South College Library.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window

Sage Open This link opens in a new window SAGE Open is a peer-reviewed, "Gold" open access journal from SAGE that publishes original research and review articles in an interactive, open access format. Articles may span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities.

Print journals are listed in the library catalog.

Library Catalog This link opens in a new window

Individual Ebooks

Case Analyses for Abnormal Psychology : Learning to Look Beyond the Symptoms This link opens in a new window
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision This link opens in a new window
DSM-5 Clinical Cases This link opens in a new window
DSM-5 Handbook Of Differential Diagnosis This link opens in a new window
DSM-5 Handbook On The Cultural Formulation Interview This link opens in a new window
Guía De Consulta De Los Criterios Diagnósticos Del DSM-5 This link opens in a new window
On Grief and Grieving : Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss This link opens in a new window
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Ebook Collections

APA PsycBooks This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference and Ebooks This link opens in a new window Credo Reference cover 11,000+ reference topics from all major academic subject areas and is a great starting point for research. Entries include images, quotations, audio files, videos, ebooks and full text articles on a variety of topics. In addition to reference topics, Credo includes over 700 academic reference books. Credo's Nursing and Allied Health Collection provides access to 23 current nursing ebooks.
EBSCO Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window Search and view the library's full text ebook collection from EBSCO. The collection of 280,000+ titles covers all subject areas from general studies to allied health and medicine.

Possible locations of print books on psychology, psychiatry, and human behavior in the Library of Congress system are:

BF (Psychology)
HV (Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology)
RC 435-571 (Psychiatry)

Print books are listed in the Library Catalog.

Library Catalog This link opens in a new window

General

Google Scholar Use this tool to search through millions of scholarly articles on the web. If you have an article title, searching it in google scholar is the quickest way to find out if it available online for free.
Helplines in United States
Mental Health America
A non-profit organization devoted to the improvement of mental health
NIMH: National Institute of Mental Health
Psych Central - Disorders
Terms and definitions of DSM criteria
Psychology videos from TED Ed

Psychological Development

Alliance for Aging Research
“…the nation’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and accelerating the pace of medical discoveries to vastly improve the universal human experience of aging and health.”
Alzheimer’s Association
Largest private non-profit funder of Alzheimer’s research
AACAP: American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
LDA: Learning Disabilities Association of America

Psychological Disorders

AADA: Anxiety Disorders Association of America
AASM: American Academy of Sleep Medicine
ADDA: Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Autism Self Advocacy Network
Autism Speaks
Organization concerned with the science, research, awareness and advocacy of autism.
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
DBSA: Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Families for Depression Awareness
“Families for Depression Awareness is a national nonprofit organization helping families recognize and cope with depressive disorders to get people well and prevent suicides.”
IOCDF: International OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) Foundation
National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
United States Department of Veterans Affairs agency dedicated to helping U.S. veterans cope with PTSD.
PSI: Postpartum Support International

Substance Abuse

DrugRehab.com
Includes information on addictions to different substances, treatment, recovery programs, and support groups.
NCADD: National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence
NIDA: National Institute on Drug Abuse
SAMHSA: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Support Groups

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