Psychology Subject Guide

This guide provides print, electronic, and Internet sources of information that may be useful for researching psychology topics. For guides to other subjects, see the Subject Guides page.

Books

Use the UT Libraries Catalog to determine if we have a book, periodical, video, or other resource, its call number, and its location in the library. Click on the 'Find Items' link to determine if the item is available for check out.

Articles

To identify articles on psychology and related topics, use one or more indexing and abstracting services. Some services also index dissertations, books and book chapters, conference papers, and/or association papers. Most of the UTK databases are restricted to use by faculty, staff, and students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Psychology and Social Sciences Databases

• HAPI (Health & Psychosocial Instruments)

Assists in the identification of measurement and evaluation instruments found in the health and psychosocial literature.

• Medline (via PubMed), 1966-

Provides international coverage of the literature of medicine.

• Mental Measurements Yearbook, 1989-

Provides information about standardized tests that are included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbook (beginning with the 9th edition).

• PsycARTICLES

Provides full-text of articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. Most titles begin with volume 1.

• PsycINFO, 1887-

Provides international coverage of the literature of psychology and related disciplines.

• Social Sciences Abstracts, 1983-

An index to primary scholarly journals in the social sciences. For coverage prior to 1983, use the print version. Ref. AI3.S62.

• Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science), 1956-

An index covering scholarly literature in the social sciences. Allows searching of cited references. Access to Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index also available in Web of Science.

• Other Psychology and Health Sciences databases.

Multidisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Premier

Full-text collection of popular and scholarly periodicals.

• Dissertation Abstracts, 1861-

Indexes dissertations and theses accepted at accredited institutions worldwide.

E-Journals

Electronic journals available from publishers or full-text databases are listed on the E-Journals page.

Websites

• Encyclopedia of Psychology


• Psych Web


• PsychCentral


• WWW Virtual Library: Psychology

Style Guides

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition
  Hodges Reference Desk: BF76.7.P83 2001


• APA Style.org (Guidance from APA on how to cite electronic media)


• APA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue University Online Writing Lab)

Students

• American Psychological Association of Graduate Students


• Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC)


• Psychology Graduate Applicant's Portal


• Student Information from the American Psychological Association


• UT Psychology Department

Associations

• American Psychological Association


• American Psychological Society


• Scholarly Societies Project (University of Waterloo Library)


• Southeastern Psychological Society


• WWW Virtual Library: Psychology Professional Societies

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Page last updated May 16, 2008.