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Resources by Subject - Psychology

For a list of all databases see Alphabetical List of Databases/Indexes.
For large, multi-disciplinary indexes see General Databases/Indexes.

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Restricted Resource - UI Access Only - Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Iowa

Related Branch Library: Psychology Library
Related Academic Department: Department of Psychology
Contact Your Librarian: Dottie Persson
Search four databases at once
(PsycINFO, PubMed, LLBA, Web of Science)


Databases / Indexes

AskERIC
ERIC focuses on education-related topics. It also covers many other subject areas, such as psychology, social sciences, health education, recreation and leisure, communications, and personnel issues. ERIC integrates two print indexes. The Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE) covers journal articles, and Resources in Education (RIE) covers many types of materials, including conference papers and grant-sponsored research reports. ERIC subject descriptors are listed in the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, available at the public service desks in the Main Library and the Psychology Library. NOTE: This resource uses the freely available AskERIC interface.

Blackwell Synergy Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Cambridge Journals Online Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

CogNet Library Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A major electronic resource for cognitive and brain sciences which provides searchable full-text of major reference works, books, and journals from MIT Press and other publishers and resource providers. Also includes conference materials, CogSci Dictionary, Almanac of cognitive science programs, and much more.

The Educator's Reference Desk
Through The Educator's Reference Desk you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.

Elsevier ScienceDirect Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Full text collection of over 1,000,000 articles from 1995 to present covers a variety of subject areas and disciplines, including biochemistry, biological sciences, business, chemistry, earth sciences, economics, engineering, mathematics and computer science, neurosciences, physics and social sciences.

Emerald Library Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Emerald Library includes management and library information science journals as well as a specialist range of engineering and applied science and technology journals.

ERIC (CSA version) Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
ERIC focuses on journal and non-journal education-related topics. ERIC subject descriptors are listed in the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, available at the public service desks in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, Main Library and the Psychology Library as well as electronically through EBSCOhost or CSA. Full-text of ERIC documents from 1993 to the present is available from the ERIC website free. NOTE: There is a choice of interface based on user preference.

ERIC (EBSCOhost version) Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
ERIC focuses on journal and non-journal education-related topics. ERIC subject descriptors are listed in the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, available at the public service desks in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, Main Library and the Psychology Library as well as electronically through EBSCOhost or CSA. Full-text of ERIC documents from 1993 to the present is available from the ERIC website free. NOTE: There is a choice of interface based on user preference.

ERIC Full-text Documents Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Full text of the ERIC documents (EDs) from 1993 to the present are available. Please note that ERIC documents 1966-July, 2004 are available in microfiche in the Media Collection, Main Library. New ERIC documents (July, 2004 to the present) are available in electronic format only. There is an effort to digitize documents acquired by the ERIC system1966-1992. If there is no link to the full-text in a database for ERIC documents 1966-1992, check with the South Circulation Desk, Main Library for the microfiche copy.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, and tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science.

HighWire Press Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

IngentaConnect Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Journals@Ovid Full Text Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

JSTOR (Journal Storage) Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, philosophy, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title. Note that this database contains ONLY back issues. Journals may be searched across multiple titles as well as by the individual titles below. The JSTOR database does NOT include full-text of the most recent 3 to 5 years.

Mental Measurements Yearbook Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed "Mental Measurements Yearbooks."

Oxford Journals Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

PILOTS Database Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
The PILOTS bibliographic database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. The PILOTS database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage.

Project Muse Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
With full text for well over 300 journal titles from university publishers, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Coverage begins in 1995.

PsycARTICLES Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

PsychCrawler
A product of the American Psychological Association.

PsycINFO Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
The PsycINFO database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. PsycINFO's coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1500 journals in more than 35 languages, and book chapters and books in the English language. Over 50,000 references are added annually. Popular literature is excluded.

SpringerLink Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Electronic versions of the Springer journals in chemical sciences, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, and physics. Includes former Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Tests in Print Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Tests in Print, produced by the Buros Institute, is a listing of commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP compliments and supplements the Mental Measurements Yearbook.

Wiley InterScience Restricted Resource - UI Access Only



Encyclopedias

Internet Mental Health
Encyclopedia of mental health information created by a Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. Phillip Long.

Sage eReference Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
A database of reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American Studies, Aging & Gerontology, Anthropology, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Gender & Sexuality Studies, History, Politics, Psychology, Social Issues, Social Work & Social Policy, and Sociology.



Full Text

Diagnostic and statistical manual : DSM-IV-TR Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Mental Measurements Yearbook Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains full text information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed "Mental Measurements Yearbooks."



Government Sites

Library of Congress

National Institute of Mental Health

National Institutes of Health



Institutions and Associations

American Counseling Association

American Educational Research Association (AERA)

American Medical Association

American Psychiatric Association

American Psychological Association

American Psychological Association Science Student Council
For graduate students.

American Psychological Society

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

Columbia University, Psychology Library

Gradschools.com
Psychology departments and graduate programs. A service of Educational Directories Unlimited, Inc.

Indiana University, Psychology Library
Bloomington.

Iowa Psychological Association

John H. Krantz, Hanover College, and Yvan Russell, MA
Psychology departments and graduate programs.

Midwestern Psychological Association

National Association of School Psychologists

Princeton University, Psychology Library

Psychology Library, Princeton University
More associations, institutions, organizations, societies.

PsychWeb
Psychology departments and graduate programs.

Social Psychology Network - NRC Ranking of U.S. Psychology Ph.D. Programs

Society for Consumer Psychology

Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

University of California LA, Department of Psychology

University of California, Berkeley - Department of Psychology

University of California, Berkeley - Psychology Library

University of California, Santa Barbara Library

University of Chicago, Psychology Department

University of Waterloo (Canada) Library
More associations, institutions, organizations, societies.

Yale University Library, Social Science Library



Journal Collections

Annual Reviews Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Blackwell Synergy Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Cambridge Journals Online Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Elsevier ScienceDirect Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Full text collection of over 1,000,000 articles from 1995 to present covers a variety of subject areas and disciplines, including biochemistry, biological sciences, business, chemistry, earth sciences, economics, engineering, mathematics and computer science, neurosciences, physics and social sciences.

Emerald Library Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Emerald Library includes management and library information science journals as well as a specialist range of engineering and applied science and technology journals.

Gerontological Society of America Journals Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Search all of the Gerontological Society of America journals.

HighWire Press Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

IngentaConnect Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Journals@Ovid Full Text Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

JSTOR (Journal Storage) Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, philosophy, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title. Note that this database contains ONLY back issues. Journals may be searched across multiple titles as well as by the individual titles below. The JSTOR database does NOT include full-text of the most recent 3 to 5 years.

Oxford Journals Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Project Muse Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
With full text for well over 300 journal titles from university publishers, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Coverage begins in 1995.

PsycARTICLES Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

Psychonomic Society Publications Journal Archives Restricted Resource - UI Access Only

SpringerLink Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Electronic versions of the Springer journals in chemical sciences, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine, and physics. Includes former Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Wiley InterScience Restricted Resource - UI Access Only



Other Resources

APA's FAQ / Finding Information About Psychological Tests
Provides information about published and unpublished tests and suggestions for locating test materials and test publishers.

Association for Psychological Type
Meyer-Briggs Type Indicator site.

Association of Test Publishers

Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
The Buros Institute, publishers of The Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print, provides critical analyses of tests and testing instruments.

The C.G. Jung Page

Classical Adlerian Psychology Home Page
Alfred Adler Institute of San Francisco.

Classics in the History of Psychology (CHP)

Cognitive Science Web Resources

Cognitive-Neuroscience Resources
The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC).

CRESST-- National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing
Research on K-12 educational testing.

Educational Testing Service

Encyclopedia of Psychology
Maintained by Jacksonville (Florida) State University.

Faculty of 1000. Medicine Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Based on the recommendations of a selected faculty of nearly 2500 leading international researchers and clinicians, it systematically highlights and reviews the most pertinent papers in any field of medicine.

Google Directory -- Psychology

Making of America
University of Michigan. A digital library of primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction. This site provides access to 9,500 books and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.

Mental Health Net -- Assessment Resources

Mental Help Net (MHN)

National Council on Measurement in Education

Neuropsychology Central -- Neuropsychological Assessment

Princeton's Psychology Library Internet Resources

PsycCRITIQUES Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Searchable database of book reviews in psychology.

PsychCentral
Dr. John Grohol's mental health page.

The Psychological Corporation
An example of a psychological testing corporation found on the web.

Psychology World Wide Web Virtual Library
The Psychology Virtual Library keeps track of online information as part of The World Wide Web Virtual Library.

PsychScholar

Psychwatch.com
Begun in April, 1998, as a weekly email newsletter and has since evolved into a global communication and information network, providing information to those in the healthcare and mental health care fields.

PsychWeb
Created by Russell A. Dewey, PhD, of Georgia Southern University.

RefWorks Restricted Resource - UI Access Only
Import references from online databases to create personal citation databases and produce bibliographies.

School Psychology Resources Online
Created by Sandra Koser Steingart, Ph.D., Office of Psychological Services, Baltimore County Public Schools.

Sigmund Freud and the Freud Archives

Social Psychology Network
Supported by the National Science Foundation.

Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Library (WPIC)

Yahoo! Directory -- Psychology

Yahoo! Education Standards and Testing