Psychology
Finding Journal Articles
Key databases
- PsycArticles on Ebscohost Contains full text from 49 journals published by the APA and allied organisations.
- PsycINFO on Ebscohost Provides references and abstracts to journal articles covering psychology and related disciplines.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection on Ebscohost Full text from nearly 500 journals covering psychology and related subjects.
- Psychology Collection on Gale Index to a collection of journals covering psychology and related disciplines with full text provided for most articles.
Other recommended databases
- Academic Search Complete on Ebscohost A comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database, with more the 5,300 full text periodicals. Includes some psychology journals.
- Expanded Academic ASAP on Gale Full text multidisciplinary database, includes some psychology.
- Ejournals Database on Ebscohost Electronic Journal Service indexes thousands of electronic journal titles, including some psychology titles. Full text available online for selected titles.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print on Ebscohost Mental Measurements Yearbook is guide to contemporary testing instruments. Coverage from Volume 9 to the present. Tests in Print is a comprehensive bibliography of all known commercial available tests currently in print in the English language.
- MIT Cognet Includes 6 full text MIT Press journals and abstracts from other 25 journals, as well as full text ebooks, covering cognitive science and psychology.
- Scopus The world’s largest abstract and indexing database. It also includes the journals indexed by ScienceDirect and has 100% Medline coverage. ScienceDirect Full text science database, with a strong coverage of psychology.
- Sage Premier Full text access to over 450 journals published by Sage, access is generally from 1999 onwards.
- SpringerLink Full text articles from almost all journals published by Springer.
- TVNews on Informit Provides online access to news, current affairs and selected documentary programs that have been broadcast on Australian television such as Four Corners, Catalyst and Cutting Edge.
Here's a Catalyst program about scientific techniques that are being developed to define and increase human happiness, The science of happiness, 11 min.
- Web of Science Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information, including psychology, from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world.
- Wiley Online Library Journals Multidisciplinary database providing fulltext access to articles in a variety of subject areas including humanities and social sciences, business, law, psychology, education, information technology, engineering and the sciences.
Tip: If full text is not provided use the Full Text? button 
to link to the full text in other databases (if available).
Ebooks
Selected titles:
- Encyclopedia of psychology from PsycBOOKS ebook database
- Vol. 1 Abortion to Bystander Phenomenon
- Vol. 2 Calkins, Mary Whiton to Determinants of Intelligence: Nutrition and Intelligence
- Vol. 3 Developmental Agenda to Goodenough, Florence Laura
- Vol. 4 Government Regulation to Hamilton Rating Scale
- Vol. 5 Learning to Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Vol. 6 Optimism and Pessimism to Rapaport, David
- Vol. 7 Rape to Systems Theory
- Vol. 8 Taine, Hippolyte to Zubin, Joseph
- Cambridge encyclopedia of child development
- The concise Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science
- A dictionary of psychology
- Elsevier's dictionary of psychological theories
- Encyclopedia of applied psychology
- Encyclopedia of cognitive science
- Handbook of child psychology Vol. 1 Vol. 2 Vol. 3 Vol. 4
- Handbook of psychology
- International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
- The Penguin dictionary of psychology
See the ebooks guide for more ebook databases.
Locating Tests
- APA Tests Site Provides information on how to find tests, including links to testing-related sites.
- Psychological Research and Experiments on the Net Provides links to known experiments on the internet that are psychologically related.
- See alsoMental Measurement Yearbook with Tests in Print.
- Measures for clinical practice and research : a sourcebook
Joel Fischer; Kevin Corcoran
4th ed..
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press 2007
A print copies of this 2 volume work are available at 150.287 FIS-M4. Vol 1 Couples, Families and Children. Vol 2 Adults.
Internet Resources
Online Tutorials
Learn how to improve your research skills and use library services effectively - watch our short online tutorials!
- Searching for an article in an Ebscohost database: basic searching (2min 38)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 1: the reading list (1min 21)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 2: finding an article (1min 36)
- How do I place a hold? (1min 52)
- How do I renew a loan? (1min 34)
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