Disciplines & Professions: Psychology

Web Sites

About.com's Psychology Directory
http://psychology.about.com/

Useful links and articles on a range of psychological issues and subdisciplines.

Academic Info's Psychology Gateway
http://www.academicinfo.net/psych.html

A great tool to help you find specialized directories and online documents. Table of contents includes library and print archives, the psychology student reference desk, teaching materials, mental health resources, and links to relevant databases and indexes.

Encyclopedia of Psychology
http://www.psychology.org/

Academic in focus. Information is classified by category, including paradigms and theory, biological factors, environmental factors, people and history, publications, organizations, and career information. Many items are cross-referenced.

Open Directory's Psychology Directory
http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/

Huge directory of information containing a wide variety of topics. Because volunteer editors maintain areas of personal interest, open directory categories tend toward the popular, such as evolutionary, existential, and alternative psychology; forensics and law; creativity; dreams; behavior analysis; and self-help, in addition to the typical categories of academic psychology.

Psych Web
http://www.psywww.com/

Intended for teachers and students of psychology, Psych Web has a new section devoted to sport psychology, as well as links to scholarly resources, self-help resources, online brochures, careers and academic departments, and an APA style guide.

Psychology Directory on the Social Science Internet Gateway
http://sosig.ac.uk/psychology/

Select a topical link from 13 technical categories. Results are then classified by the type of materials they are—articles, papers, reports; bibliographies; FAQs; journals; organizations; and research projects/centers. Example of categories include cognition, perception and motor functions, and developmental psychology.

Psychology Online Resource Central
http://www.psych-central.com/

Academically oriented site geared toward students and professors of psychology. Includes links to graduate schools, licensure, online research resources, conventions, and career planning.

Yahoo!'s Psychology Directory
http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Psychology/

A general interest site rather than a technical knowledge site. Categories to select from include intelligence, education, humor, and companies (such as those that publish psychological tests).

Databases

PsycARTICLES (American Psychological Association)

Provides full-text of 42 journals published by the American Psychological Association.

PsycINFO (American Psychological Association, available through OCLC FirstSearch, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and SilverPlatter)

This database offers references to professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. Abstracts from more then 1,300 journals as well as books and book chapters. Covers 1967 to the present.

PSYNDEXplus (Zentralstelle fur Psychologische Information und Dokumentation (ZPID) at the University of Trier, available through SilverPlatter)

Includes articles, books, chapters, reports, and disserations from Germany and the United States. Entries appear in German and English. Bilingual thesaurus provided to aid searching. 160,000+ records from 1977 to the present.

Print Resources

Baxter, Pam. Psychology: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1993.

Organizes more than 600 sources by subject and type of work. Provides annotations for sources. Includes index.

Damon, William, ed. Handbook of Child Psychology. 5th ed. 4 vols. New York: Wiley, 1998.

Entries are organized under larger topical headings. Covers wide array of issues and topics in child psychology. Includes a subject index and an author index.

Kazdin, Alan E., ed. Encyclopedia of Psychology. 8 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

More than 1,500 articles on psychological concepts, events, figures, and methods. Most entries include a bibliography. Final volume provides an index.

Magill, Frank N., ed. Survey of Social Science: Psychology Series. 6 vols. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem, 1993.

Alphabetical list of articles on topics in psychology. Each entry includes a bibliography and cross-references. Final volume provides an index and glossary of terms.

Reed, Jeffery G., and Pam M. Baxter. Library Use: A Handbook for Psychology. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: APA, 1992.

Intended specifically for students. Walks through conducting library research specific to psychology. Includes references and a list of specialized sources.

Roeckelein, Jon E. Dictionary of Theories, Laws, and Concepts in Psychology. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.

Uses thorough explanations and frequent cross-references to define key general psychology terms. Also provides references for many entries and a general list of references at the end of the book.

Sheehy, Noel, Anthony J. Chapman, and Wendy Conroy, eds. Biographical Dictionary of Psychology. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Biographical information on more than 700 notable figures in the field of psychology. Entries are organized alphabetically and include a list of the person's publications as well as suggestions for further reading.

Stratton, Peter, and Nicky Hayes. A Student's Dictionary of Psychology. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Alphabetical list of definitions of psychology terminology. Intended specifically for students encountering psychology for the first time.