Psychology

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Ros Smith 020 7815 6697
Brenda Spooner 020 7815 6635
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Core E-resources

Psycarticles [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 134,000 articles from 63 journals - 50 published by the APA and its imprint, the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF) - and 13 from allied organisations. It includes all journal articles and book reviews. Coverage spans 1894 to present.

Psycinfo [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. From 1974. Includes details of articles with abstracts from over 1300 psychology journals, from 1974.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. Has more than 420 full-text journals. Also links to full text from citations within PsycINFO.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

ASSIA [electronic resource].
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts). Covers English language journals in applied social sciences. Includes health, economics, social issues & social policy, organisational behaviour and communication.

Additional E-resources

Education Research Complete [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Education Research Complete is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,730 journals, as well as full text for nearly 830 journals. This database also includes full text for 67 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

IBSS [electronic resource].
Updated weekly, with data going back to 1951. IBSS Online (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) contains references to over 2400 selected journals and 7000 books per year.

Medline - via EBSCO [electronic resource].
The US National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database of over 16 million references from more than 5,000 biomedical journals published in the United States and 80 other countries. Subject coverage is from the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences, and is worldwide, but most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. Records date from the 1950's onwards, many include abstracts. The database includes links to some full text articles, but this is not a full text database.

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK), Arts and Humanities Citation Index, BIDS-ISI [electronic resource].
References,citations, selected abstracts. Includes Science Citation Index expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present. Covers over 9000 scholarly research journals and is updated weekly. Includes:
SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX:
Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981.

British Education Index [electronic resource].
Covers education and training mainly in the UK.

RefWorks [electronic resource].
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

BioMed Central [electronic resource].
An independent publishing house providing free access to peer reviewed biomedical literature. It publishes over 50 on-line journals and also hosts affiliated journals.

Journal Collections and Newspapers

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Business Source Premier [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. Provides full-text for approximately 2,300 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and marketing. Includes Dun & Bradstreet company information.

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

IngentaConnect [electronic resource].
IngentaConnect offers access to article summaries of over 2500 publications, along with the full text of over 4500 publications from 150 publishers (including: Academic Press, Arnold, Blackwell Science, Blackwell Publishers,Elsevier, Gordon and Breach, Harwood Academic, Portland Press, Professional Engineering Publishing and White Horse Press).

Sage Journals Online (Sage Premier) [electronic resource].
SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.

SpringerLink [electronic resource].
Provides online, full-text access to Springer's journal titles as well as journals from other publishers. Subjects include: life sciences, chemical sciences, environmental sciences, geosciences, computer science, mathematics, medicine, physics & astronomy, engineering and economics.

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Selected Websites for this area.

Amoeba Web
Excellent gateway to resources in most academically related subject areas in psychology, including tests and hints on writing styles.

British Psychological Society
Links to key resources, career opportunities and professional contacts.

Directory of Open Access Journals
Free full text academic journals.

Intute: Social Sciences - Psychology

Intute: Health and Life Sciences - Medicine
Contains material on the psychological aspects of health and medicine.

N.B. These sites take a long time to load.

Online Psychology Degree

The resources available here give useful discussions of key psychological subjects. HOWEVER the rest of the site functions as a marketing tool for psychology courses in the U.S.A.

Personality Project
Personality surveys and suggested readings for research.

PsychScholar
Resources for research and teaching including links to tutorials.

PsychWeb
Topics are searchable and include a self-test quiz. Produced by the American Psychological Association.

Psychology World Wide Web Virtual Library
Sources are evaluated and include the option to search by topic and to participate in current research.

Senate House Library

Members of the British Psychology Society are entitled to use the society's collection in Senate House. This page gives information about the terms and conditions.

A list of the Society's journals may be found here.

Social Psychology Network
Good links to teaching resources, software and an online directory.

Some Psychology Blogs

British Psychological Society Research Digest Blog This blog is regularly updated, easy to search, and includes a useful round-up of recent psychological studies.

PsyBlog...Understand Your Mind Although it sounds like a self-help site, this blog is authored by a doctoral student of Psychology at UCL. It features a wide range of research studies with a slightly lighter

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