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Information about the Library's collection in psychology

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Nan Hyland is the psychology selector. Please contact her with any questions you have about the collection--journals, books, online resources, etc. She can be reached at nch9@cornell.edu or 255-8125.

Michael Engle is the contact for reference and instruction questions for psychology. He is also responsible for the Psychology Research Guide and invites your suggestions for additions and corrections.

If you would like to recommend a resource to be added to the library collection, please fill out the online Purchase Request form, or contact Nan Hyland directly.

Library Instruction and Research Consultations for Psychology

The digital revolution has made an enormous amount of information available to researchers in psychology, but discovering resources and using them effectively can be challenging, both for incoming students and seasoned scholars.

The library provides instruction in using its resources for classes from first-year students to graduate-level seminars.

Faculty: If you would like to arrange for a course-specific library instruction session, please fill out the online Instruction Session Request Form, or contact Tony Cosgrave, our Instruction coordinator [ajc5@cornell.edu].

Students and other Cornell-affiliated patrons: If you would like to arrange for an individual research consultation, please fill out the online Consultation Session Request Form, or contact Michael Engle directly.

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Psychology: A Research Guide

Psychology: A Research Guide is an extensive, annotated bibliography of print and online resources in these categories: Encyclopedias and Dictionaries, Guides and Handbooks, the CUL Catalog, Bibliographies, Biographical Sources, Periodical Indexes, Web Portals, APA Style, and Guides to Graduate Study. We update this site regularly with new titles and welcome your recommendations and suggestions for additional resources, as well as evaluations of existing resources.

Reference Titles Online

Colman, Andrew M. A Dictionary of Psychology. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001.

Handbook of Psychology. Ed. Irving B. Weiner. Also available as 12 print vols. New York: Wiley, 2004

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Ed. Neil J. Smelser, Paul B. Baltes. Also available as 26 print vols. New York: Elsevier, 2001.

Stevens' Handbook of Experimental Psychology. 3rd ed. New York Wiley, 2004.

Online Index to Journal and Book Articles

PsycINFO. Washington: American Psychological Association. Covers 1887 to date .

(Library Gateway)

Electronic Journal Collections

PsycARTICLES. Washington: American Psychological Association. 1988- .

(Library Gateway)

A searchable database of full-text articles from journals published by APA and allied organizations since 1988. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

ScienceDirect. New York: Elsevier Science.

(Library Gateway)

Online, full-text journals covering the physical, natural, and social sciences. Of interest are the collections of neurology and psychology titles in ScienceDirect.

Wiley Interscience

(Library Gateway)

Online, full-text psychology journals published by Wiley in Abnormal Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Developmental and Infant-Child Psychology, Educational Psychology, General Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Social Psychology.

Annual Reviews

Annual Review of Psychology. 1950 to date

Annual Review of Neuroscience. 1978 to date

Web Portals

"The Psychology Virtual Library keeps track of online information as part of The World Wide Web Virtual Library. Sites are inspected and evaluated for their adequacy as information sources before they are linked from here." (Home Page) A free Web portal that collects and annotates Web sites of interest to psychologists and psychology students.

Table of Contents: Academic Departments; Basic Academic Psychology; Books and Publishers; Clinical Social Work; Directories or Guides to Psychology Sites; E-Mail Lists and Newsgroups; Employment – Entrepreneurship; History of Psychology; Journals (Electronic and Print); Library Resources Online; Mental Health Resources; Professional Societies; Psychology of Religion; School Psychology; Stress Management; Transpersonal Psychology; What's New in Psychology Sites.

Other Web portals of interest are listed in Psychology: A Research Guide.

Citing References Using APA Style

Online help using Publication Manual of the APA (5th ed.)

(Library Gateway Help)

Professional Associations

American Psychological Association/APA Online.

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