Psychology

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    Academic and Scholarly Articles

JSTOR           1831-present, varies by title Full-text backfiles to almost 850 scholarly journals from more than 25 academic disciplines published between the 19th and 21st centuries in the JSTOR Arts & Sciences I - IV, Arts & Sciences VII, and Biological Sciences collections. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a "moving wall" of 3 to 5 years before the present year.

PILOTS      1871-present; updated monthly PILOTS (covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress) comes from the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and 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. The database includes information about post-traumatic stress disorder; assessment, description, prevention, or treatment of any psychiatric disorder associated with exposure to a traumatic event; the provision of mental health services to a traumatized population; and issues of professional ethics, methodology, and policy.

PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)       Full text access to the 43 journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber, some going back to 1988. PsycARTICLES journals are indexed in the PsycINFO database.

PsycINFO (EBSCO)   Citations and abstracts to articles from more than 1300 international journals in psychology and related fields, going back to 1840. This database covers all areas of psychology, including experimental, developmental, communications, social processes and issues, personality, physical and psychological disorders, professional issues, applied psychology, educational psychology, and behavioral literature in such related fields as law, business and medicine. Also includes citations for books and book chapters.

Mental Measurements Yearbook        Volume 9-present; includes Tests in Print Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the MMY provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.  Tests in Print is a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. Provides vital information to users including test purpose, author, price, a score index identifying what is being measured, and citations for test reviews published in the MMY series.

CSA Discovery Guides   Discovery Guides brief you in the basics of a subject and offer recent insights, while providing the technological tools to enhance your understanding. Each guide links to CSA products that help you find pertinent information, discover publishing opportunities, identify scholars, and create a personal database.

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    General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles

Academic Search Complete            1887-present; updated daily The world's most comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, Academic Search Complete indexes more than 11,200 journals, and provides full text for more than 7,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,100 peer-reviewed journals. Includes PDF content going back as far as 1887. Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,300 journals.

OmniFile Full Text Mega    1982-present Multi-disciplinary database for full-text articles from over 1,750 publications, and abstracts and citations for over 3,500 publications in subjects that include education, general science, social sciences, business, art, etc. Includes the database Education Full Text.

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WorldCat      1000 CE-present; updated daily Includes over 40 million bibliographic records representing cataloged resources in 400 languages owned by libraries around the world. Materials date back to the 11th century. Owning libraries can be identified for books, journals, archival resources and electronic resources. The database can also be searched through its free web interface, at worldcat.org.

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    Government Documents

Government Publications Office Monthly Catalog       1967-present; updated monthly Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).

REFERENCE SOURCES

    Dissertations and Theses

WorldCat Dissertations and Theses        updated daily Index of over 8 million dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by member libraries, including all subjects.

    General Reference Works

Oxford Reference Online      Over 100 full text language and subject dictionaries and reference works. Topics covered include general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities, social sciences, and business.

WEBSITES*

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    Mental Health

    Social Psychology

*Descriptions for websites are from the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library at Gustavus Adolphus College.