Library: Psychology: General

Psychology Research Databases

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PsycArticles (APA) From the American Psychological Association (APA), this database is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed, scholarly, and scientific articles in psychology. Contains full text from nearly 80 journals and coverage spans from 1894 to present.
Psychology Database (ProQuest) "Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics."
Academic Search Ultimate The world's largest academic, multi-disciplinary database with full text journals, newspapers, magazines, reports, eBooks and videos. Meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline.
SAGE Journals Online An interdisciplinary database that contains over 1,000 full text, online journals in the fields of business, education, health, the humanities, law enforcement, criminology, and other social sciences. Several of these journals are the most authoritative and influential in their fields. Access from 1999-present.

PsyArXiv Search and access preprints in the psychological sciences

Multidisciplinary eBook databases:

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) Multidisciplinary eBooks representing a broad range of subjects.
Ebook Central (ProQuest) eBooks on a range of subjects such as business, information technology, education, engineering, health, history, humanities, life & physical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.

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Films On Demand (Psychology) Contains over 1,500 videos on many areas of psychology such as abnormal, applied, biological, developmental and social.
Alexander Street Videos (Psychology & Counseling) Includes therapy sessions, documentaries, interviews, keynote presentations, transcripts, client narratives and psychological experiments online. The content covers a vast range of client issues such as addiction, autism, depression, grief, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicide. It also highlights the psychology behind human behavior with studies on conformity, power, obedience, responsibility, aggression, and conditioning.

ImageQuest (Britannica) Nearly 3 million rights-cleared images from more than 50 collections including Getty Images, the National Portrait Gallery of London, and the National Geographic Society.
Credo Reference Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.

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Credo Reference Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
Britannica Academic The largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world, this database contains articles, maps, images, videos, and yearbooks from 1993 to present. Use it instead of Wikipedia for your research!
Gale eBooks More than 50 reference eBooks in business, communications, history, law, literature, medicine, nation & world, science, and technology.

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Selected Resources

In the 1940s, Kenneth and Mamie Clark conducted the doll test, finding that black children preferred white dolls to black. Wilson tried the study and found similar results today.

Past, Present, and Promise Past, Present, and Promise is the first program in the Discovering Psychology series. It provides an introduction to and overview of psychology, from its origins in the nineteenth century to current study of the brain's biochemistry. You'll explore the development of psychology in general and some of the paths scientists take to determine relationships among the mind, the brain, and behavior.
Understanding Research Understanding Research is the second program in the Discovering Psychology series. This program examines how we know what we know. You'll explore the scientific method, the distinction between fact and theory, and the different ways in which data are collected and applied, both in labs and in real-world settings.
Center for the History of Psychology Search the archives of the History of American Psychology, the world’s largest repository of manuscripts, monographs, media, and artifacts relevant to the history of psychology and related human sciences.

American Psychological Association (APA) “A scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With more than 154,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide.” Website includes links to psychology topics, publications, news, careers and more. Offers student affiliate memberships.
Association for Psychological Science Founded in 1988, APS's mission is “promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare."
Society for General Psychology: Division 1 From the American Psychological Association
Society for the History of Psychology: Division 26 From the American Psychological Association

Selected Publications

American Psychologist The official peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the American Psychological Association.
British Journal of Psychology Peer reviewed journal with 12 month full text delay due to publisher embargo
History of Psychology
Psychological Bulletin
Psychological Methods
Psychological Review
Psychological Science
Review of General Psychology
General Psychologist (Newsletter) A newsletter of Division One of the American Psychological Association (APA)

How to use this guide

This guide is designed to help you with your research, introducing a range of Psychology resources available to you. The Psychology Research Databases box lists databases recommended in your subject area that you can search to find articles, eBooks, etc.

Notable Psychologists

Fonagy, P. & Fonagy, P. (2005). Erik Erikson (1902--1994) [Photograph]. In B. Hopkins (Ed.), Cambridge encyclopedia of child development. Cambridge University Press.

Alfred Adler
Bärbel Inhelder
Carl Jung
Christine Ladd Franklin
Erich Fromm
Erik Erikson
Franz Brentano
G. Stanley Hall
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Inez Beverly Prosser
Kenneth Clark
Mamie Clark
Margaret Washburn
Martha Bernal
Mary Calkins
Sigmund Freud
Wilhelm Wundt
William James
APA Presidents Former American Psychological Association presidents from 1892 to present