Research Guides: Psychology: Recommended Resources

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All current Virginia Tech students, faculty, and staff, regardless of your location, may request through ILLiad for materials:

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Overview Resources for Psychology

Gale Ebooks
Gale Ebooks is a collection of searchable ebook reference works. You can search within a particular work or across the entire collection. Individual articles from these sources are presented in HTML and PDF. Illustrations, photos, maps, and multimedia content is often included.
Oxford Handbooks Online
Oxford Handbooks Online provides scholarly overviews of topics through in-depth articles. We have access to handbooks in philosophy, political science, and psychology.

Psychology - OpenStax Open Textbook
This open textbook provides a free, frequently updated overview of the Psychology discipline. Check out Chapter 1 for Theories - historical and contemporary. Chapter 2, Psychological Research, covers Approaches and Analysis methods.

Recommended Scholarly Research Databases

PsycINFO from EBSCOhost
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PsycINFO indexes citations, abstracts, cited references, and some full text from articles, books, dissertations, and reviews on all aspects of psychology. Full text provided as HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources, age group, classification code, methodology, and population group. 1840-present.
PsycARTICLES from EBSCOhost
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PsycARTICLES indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. Full text provided as HTML and PDF. You can limit to age groups, classification codes, methodology, and population group. 1894-present.
PubMed from NLM
Indexes citations, abstracts and full text from journal articles, case studies, conference papers, clinical trial reports, news reports, and reviews in the fields of medicine,nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences. Full text available in HTML and PDF. You can limit to types of clinical queries, age, gender and species of subject, and review articles that summaries research on a topic. 1946-present.

PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant Web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.

PubMed is a free resource that is developed and maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

A mobile version is available.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection from EBSCOhost
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The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection database indexes citations, abstracts, and full text from journal articles, magazines, and book reviews in the field of psychiatry and psychology, anthropology, emotional and behavioral characteristics. Full-text articles are available in HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1930-present.
PsycCRITIQUES
PsycCRITIQUES provides full-text reviews of current books and some popular films, videos, and software as well as comparative reviews of books in the field of psychology. The focus is on current books—most new reviews are of books in current year. Reviews are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. Full text available in HTML. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1956-2017.
Scopus
This is a large multidisciplinary, bibliographic database that indexes journal articles, conference papers, and books in the sciences, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. It indexes a great deal of content in psychology and other related fields; you can also export results to .csv files, to SciVal (the research analytics tool), and have a number of options for limiting and expanding results and for sorting your results.

Videos, Images, Multimedia

PsycTHERAPY from EBSCOhost
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PsycTHERAPY provides unscripted videos of therapy sessions, with searchable transcripts and the ability to create playlists.

The Journal of Visualized Experiments

JoVE is a unique collection of peer reviewed video journals. Virginia Tech subscribes to three of them: Behavior, Science Education, and Neuroscience (linked below). JoVE creates the ultimate solutions for advancing research and science education by making and publishing videos of scientific experiments from the top laboratories around the globe. By allowing scientists, educators and students to see the intricate details of cutting-edge experiments rather than read them in text articles, JoVE increases STEM research productivity and student learning, saving their institutions time and money.

JoVE Behavior
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) Behavior includes observational and experimental methods to understand human and animal behavior.
JoVE Science Education
JoVE Science Education is a revolutionary video library dedicated to teaching scientific fundamentals through simple easy-to-understand video demonstrations.
JoVE Neuroscience
JoVE Neuroscience includes methods and techniques for studying the brain and nervous system; also featuring potential treatments for neurological conditions and diseases.

APA Citation Resources

APA Tutorial: The Basics of APA Style
Official APA tutorial: Skim through for what you need or watch it all! "This tutorial is designed for those who have no previous knowledge of APA Style®. It shows users how to structure and format their work, recommends ways to reduce bias in language, identifies how to avoid charges of plagiarism, shows how to cite references in text, and provides selected reference examples."
APA Citation Style - VT Libraries page
This page on the VT Libraries site provides info on APA citation style and links to the library copy of the print manual (scroll to the bottom of the page) and online resources for help in using this style.

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