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PsycARTICLES
A definitive source of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 40,000 articles from 53 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 8 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present.

Tests - Databases

BUROS MENTAL MEASUREMENTS YEARBOOK
Online access to the 9-16th Mental Measurements Yearbooks via the EBSCOhost interface. The Mental Measurements Yearbook series, produced since 1938 by the Buros Institute, provides users with critical evaluations for over 2,000 commercial tests within a wide variety of areas that include education, psychology, business, aptitude, achievement, and intelligence. Typical MMY entries include descriptive information about the test, professional reviews, and reviewer references. Full text of test reviews is included in the database, and up to three independent reviews are included for each test.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)
Contains thousands of instruments including questionnaires, rating scales, index measures, scenarios, vignettes, observations, checklists, manuals, coding schemes, and projectice techniques. Under 'Limit to' select Primary Source or Secondary Source. Primary source means the citation is the original source for the instrument. Secondary Source means the instrument was originally developed by another author or for another study. Use reliability and validity as keywords to locate instruments with tested psychometric properties.

PsycINFO
Covers mainly journal articles (includes some books and other materials) relevant to psychology, educations, medicine, business, sociology, and psychiatry. Start with a keywords search to find articles relating to a type of inventory and then combine it with a keyword search using the word appended. This will find instruments relating to a specific subject that are included in the article appendix.

Tests - Print

REF = Reference Dept. – Third Floor

TEST CRITIQUES (REF. B176 T419)
Kansas City, MO: Test Corporation of America, 1984-1994

A review of psychology, education and business tests. Each critique provides practical information not found in other reference works on tests.

DIRECTORY OF UNPUBLISHED EXPERIMENTAL MENTAL MEASURES (REF BF431 G625)
Washington D.C. American Psychological Association, 1974 –

Lists unpublished tests appearing in a large number of psychology and related journals.  Each entry has a brief description and journal reference. They are grouped by general type with subject index.

MENTAL MEASUREMENTS YEARBOOK (print edition - REF Z5814 P8 B967)
Highland Park, N.J.: Mental Measurements Yearbook, 1938 – 1998
Recent editions are available online through the library’s website.

Ten editions of the yearbook are available and these are updated by TESTS IN PRINT. These publications provide the most extensive coverage of published standardized test commercially available in the English-speaking world. Some entries include excerpts of reviews.  All have general information about the tests. Extensive bibliographies are provided listing additional articles in MMY volumes as well as journals. The ten editions and TIP supplement each other and have title, name and broad subject indexes. Recent editions are available online through the library’s website.

TESTS:  A COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE FOR ASSESSMENTS IN PSYCHOLOGY EDUCATION AND BUSINESS (REF BF176 T43)
Austin, TX Pro-Ed, 2003

A quick guide to tests giving purpose and a short description.  It covers thousands of tests in a classified format with title, author, publisher, etc.

Print Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Note: REF = Reference Dept. – Third Floor

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY (REF LB1027.55 E52 2004 – EdD Program Shelf)
New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers/Plenum Publishers, 2004

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE (REF BF311 E53 2003)
London: New York: Nature Pub. Group 2003

CORSINI ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR (REF BF31 E5)
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOLOGY (REF BF31 E52)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MENTAL HEALTH (REF RA790 E53)
San Diego: Academic Press, 1998

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS (REF RC437)
New York: Henry Holt, 1996

DICTIONARY OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE: NEUROSCIENCE, PSYCHOLOGY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, LINGUISTICS AND PHILOSOPHY
New York: Psychology Press, 2004

A DICTIONARY OF PSYCHOLOGY (REF BF31 C65 2001)
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

PUBLICATION MANUAL OF THE APA (REF BF76.7 P38 – Ask at the Reference Desk – 3rd Floor)
Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association, 2001

A guide to mechanical and style rules for authors, editors and students in the field of psychology.

JOURNALS IN PSYCHOLOGY: A RESOURCE LISTING FOR AUTHORS (REF BF76.8 J68)
Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1997

Print Biographies

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Ref - Reference Department Third floor


(BF 109 A1 D45 2005 -  Stack 3)
Mahwah, N. J. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

Information on the personal lives and professional writings of Sigmund Freud and the psychodynamic approach, B. F. Skinner and the behavioral approach, and Carl Rogers and the phenomenological approach.

POTRAITS OF PIONEERS IN PSYCHOLOGY (BF 109 A1 P672 v. 1- 5 – Stack 3)
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association; Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1991-2003
Francis Galton -- William James -- Ivan Petrovich Pavlov -- Sigmund Freud -- Mary Whiton Calkins -- Joseph Jastrow -- E.B. Titchner -- Ethel Puffer -- Harvey Carr -- Edward L. Thorndike -- C.G. Jung -- John B. Watson -- Max Wertheimer -- Clark L. Hull -- Edward Chace Tolman -- Leta Stetter Hollingworth -- Wolfgang Kohler -- Walter S. Hunter -- Edna Heidbreder -- Karl Spencer Lashley -- Harry Stack Sullivan -- Robert Choate Tryon.

WOMEN IN PSYCHOLOGY A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCEBOOK (REF BF109 A1 W65)
New York: Greenwood Press, 1990

Biographical profiles of 36 women psychologists. Covers family background, education, career development, major contributions, etc. Special section note award winning contributions of various women and bibliographic resources.

BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF PSYCHOLOGY (REF BF109 A1 B56)
New York: Routledge, 1997

Biographical information on over 500 prominent psychologists.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

 

 

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