Psychology: Mortola Library Resources

This guide lists basic sources helpful for library research in psychology.  Related research guides include Experimental Psychology and Clinical Psychology.  In addition to the reference materials listed here, the Birnbaum Library has many circulating books that may be of interest to those pursuing research in psychology.  Consult the library catalog to find out what is available.

• Background Sources in Psychology
• Finding Books in the Pace Library
• Finding Journal Articles
• Finding Web Sites
• Citing Your Sources

Background Sources in Psychology

Backwell Dictionary of Cognitive Psychology

Mortola Ref BF311 .B535 1991

Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence

Mortola Ref BF724 .B487 2003

Dictionary of Psychology

Mortola Ref BF31 .C72 1999

Encyclopedia of Mental Health

Mortola Ref RA790.5 .E53 1998

Encyclopedia of Psychology

Mortola Ref BF31.E52 2000 (vols. 1-8)

Handbook of Child Psychology

Mortola Ref BF721 .H242 1998

Handbook of Counseling Psychology

Mortola Ref BF637 .C6 H315 2000

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Finding Books in the Pace University Library

You can find other books on your research topic by searching the online Pace Library Catalog by subject or keyword. Subject searches target the specific Library of Congress Subject Headings that have been assigned to the books that the Pace Library owns.  Unless you know the subject headings that pertain to your topic, you may want to begin with a Keyword search.  Once you have found a source that you find useful, look at the Library of Congress Subject Headings towards the bottom of the catalog record to determine the best terms to use in a Subject search for further materials.  For more information, please see our guide to Using the Pace Library Catalog.

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Finding Journal Articles

To find out which psychology journals the library subscribes to (in print and/or electronic formats), go into the Pace Library Catalog, and choose to Browse Journals by Subject.

To find journal articles on a particular topic, use one of the library's databases.  To access psychology databases that the Pace Library subscribes to, go to the library home page at http://www.pace.edu/library, click on Articles via Databases, and use the pull-down menu labeled "Subject Research Area" to select Psychology and click the GO button.  You may also choose a specific database from an alphabetical list.  The following library databases may be useful for research in psychology:

PsycINFO    1887-present

Psychology database published by the American Psychological Association.  Also see PsycArticles, which includes the full-text of APA journals dating back to 1988.  Help on searching this database is available.

Academic Search Premier

Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.  Help on searching this database is available.

Education Abstracts    1983-present

Abstracts only, selected full text available in the Omnifile database.  Help on searching this database is available.

ERIC    1966-present

Citations and abstracts for over 980 journals dealing with education and related fields.  Help on searching this database is available.

Medline     1966-present

Indexes journals published in the U.S. and internationally.  Covers all areas of medicine, including psychiatry.  Help on searching this database is available.

Research Library    1989-present

Contains citations, with abstracts, to more than 1,800 general-interest periodicals. Included are over 500 periodicals related to the social sciences, nearly 400 related to the humanities, more than 150 in the general sciences field, and approximately 200 business titles. More than 200 of the journals are available in full text.  Help on searching this database is available.

Sociological Abstracts    1963-present

Indexes and abstracts English-language journals in sociology, social work, and other social sciences.  Help on searching this database is available.

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Finding Web Sites

The Pace Library maintains a directory of Web sites that librarians have looked at and judged to be appropriate for academic research.  To access this directory, visit the Library's Internet Resources page and use the pull-down menu provided to select Psychology.  Other, more extensive directories of high-quality Web resources that you may find useful include:

INFOMINE    http://infomine.ucr.edu/

A collection of scholarly Internet resources, arranged by subject.  INFOMINE was developed by the University of California, Riverside.

Librarians' Index to the Internet    http://lii.org/

Though specifically intended for users of public libraries, this annotated subject directory links to more than 9,000 high-quality Web resources.

The Scout Report Archives    http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/archives/

Search for critical evaluations of Websites that have appeared in previous editions of the Scout Report.

You may also find useful information on the Web by using a general search engine.  Bear in mind that anybody can publish on the Web, so it is particularly important to critically evaluate the information that you find there.  For more information, please see the Pace Library's guide to Evaluating Resources.

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Citing Your Sources

Once you have finished your research and written your paper, you will need to prepare your bibliography and cite any sources you have referenced within the text.  Please see the Pace Library's guide to How to Cite Resources for more information on citation styles for print and electronic resources.  Check with your instructor if you are unsure of which citation style to use.

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