Last revised:June 2008

Psychology Resources

Scope: This guide provides a selected list of print and electronic resources in Psychology. It is primarily intended as a general reference tool for UMBC Students at Universities at Shady Grove (USG), and others interested in the field.

The print resources listed here are available in the Shady Grove Library Reference collection (SHADYG REF). They cannot be checked out. Electronic resources listed here include proprietary databases and E-journals as well as Internet resources. These databases and E-journals can be accessed only at Shady Grove Library. There is no Login required for in-house use of these electronic resources.

UMBC patrons can also access databases and E-journals available to them via Albin O. Kuhn Library. A Login to Research Port is required for remote access to Kuhn Library databases.

If you find any link not working, or if you need assistance using these resources, please contact Shady Grove Library at shadylib@umd.edu or call 301-738-6020.

Reference Books

• Carter, Robert T. ed. Handbook of Racial-Cultural Psychology and Counseling. 2 vols. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & sons; 2004.
  Location: SHADYG REF
  Call No. RC455.4.E8H368 2004
  
• Damon, William, ed. Handbook of Child Psychology, 5th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley; 1998.
  Location: SHADYG REF
  Call No. BF721 .H242 1998
  
• Pope-Davis, Donald B. Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling & Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003.
  Location: SHADYG REF
  Call No. BF637.C6 H3173 2003
  
• Steele, R. G. & Michael Roberts, eds. Handbook of Mental Health Services for Children, Adolescents, and Families. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 2005.
  Location: SHADYG REF
  Call No. RJ501.A2 H36 2005
  
• Teti, Douglas, M. Handbook of Research Methods in Developmental Sciences. Malden, MA: Blackwell; 2005.
  Location: SHADYG REF
  Call No. BF713.5 .H36 2005
  
• Valsiner, J. & Kevin J. Connolly, eds. Handbook of Developmental Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications; 2003.
  Location: SHADYG REF
  Call No. BF713 .H364 2003
  

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Corsini, R. J., & Auerbach, A. J., eds. Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology, 2nd ed. New York,NY: Wiley; 1998.
  Location: SHADYG REF
  Call No. BF31 .C67 1998
  
• Corsini, R.J. The Dictionary of Psychology. Philadelphia, PA: Brunner/Mazel; 1999.
  Location: SHADYG REF
  Call No. BF31.C72 1999
  
• Hall, Lena E. Dictionary of Multicultural Psychology: Issues, Terms, and Concepts. Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage Publications; 2005.
  Location: SHADYG REF
  Call No. GN502 .H336 2005
  
• Parke, Ross D. & Virginia Otis Locke, eds. Child Psychology: A Contemporary Viewpoint. Boston, MA: McGraw Hill; 2003.
  Location: SHADYG REF
  Call no. BF .H418 2002
  
• Roeckelein, Jon E. Dictionary of Theories, Laws, and Concepts in Psychology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press; 1998.
  Location: SHADYG REF
  Call No. BF31 .R625 1998
  
• Strickland, Bonnie, ed. The Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology. Detroit, MI: Gale Group; 2001
  Location: SHADYG REF
  Call No. BF31 .G35 2001
  

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Databases

Note: The following electronic databases are available through Shady Grove Library. Use these databases to find journal article, book chapters, book reviews, etc. related to your topic. Consult Research Port for the full list of available Psychology subject databases. These databases can also be remotely accessed by registered patrons via Research Port. Please contact library staff if you need additional information.

• PsycARTICLES
  This is a small searchable database of full text articles from major journals published by the American Psychological Association. All these full text journals are indexed in PsycINFO.
  
• PsycINFO
  PsycINFO covers the entire range of psychology disciplines, and also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as psychiatry, neuroscience, medicine, sociology, education, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.
  
• Academic Search Premier
  This multidisciplinary database provides abstracts and indexing for over 7,000 journals and full text of over 4,000 scholarly publications, including more than 3,100 peer-reviewed publications.
  
• Mental Measurements Yearbook
  The Yearbook provides full-text descriptive entries, references, and full-text critical reviews of more than 2,200 assessment tools. It is the most authoritative and well-known index to educational, psychological, and vocational tests and measurements commercially published in the English language.
  
• Business Source Complete
  Business Source Complete is an upgraded version of Business Source Premier. It provides a comprehensive coverage in all aspects of business. In addition to the searchable cited references, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the most-cited authors in the database. It is a useful database for industrial and organizational psychology resources.
  

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Journals

Most journal titles in psychology are searchable through Research Port, UM Libraries' gateway to electronic resources. The following print journals are available at Shady Grove Library. Please check the UM Libraries' Journals Catalog for subscription years and issues available.

• American Psychologist
• Annual review of Psychology

These journals are available in Microfiche format at Shady Grove Library. Please check the UM Libraries' Journals Catalog for subscription years available. If you need assistance with Microfiche journals, please check with library staff.

• American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
• American Psychologist
• Journal of Applied Psychology
• Journal of Abnormal Psychology
• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Videos and DVD's

Shady Grove Library has an extensive collection of videos and DVD's in Psychology and related fields. Our video collection is searchable but it is non-circulating. Library has two video viewing stations. Registered patrons can borrow the videos to view in the library. These are just a few of the titles the library owns:

• The Psychology of Criminal Behavior
• Emotional Development of Children
• Client Centered Therapy
• Cognitive Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
• Sensation and Perception
• Behavior Disorders of Childhood
• Personality Disorders; Substance Abuse Disorders
• Looking at Abnormal Behavior; the Nature of Stress
• Anxiety Disorders

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Tests and Measurements

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Internet resources

• Social Psychology Network
  Started as a resource for students at Wesleyan University, the network now maintains over 12,000 links and is perhaps the largest social psychology database on the Internet.
• Psychology Resources
  Annotated guide to psychology resources on the internet; this site is maintained by Education Index.
• Association for Psychological Science
  The Association for Psychological Science (previously American Psychological Society) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national level. Provides a comprehensive list of some very useful links to additional psychological resources and organizations both international and within the United States.
• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
  The Society's mission is to enhance human well-being and performance in organizational and work settings by promoting the science, practice, and teaching of industrial-organizational psychology.This is amembership organization promoting the education of current and future industrial-organizational psychologists.

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