Manderino Library: Psychology and Counseling: Resources

Psychology & Counseling Resources

PsycINFO
The premier research tool for psychology, behavioral, and social science disciplines. Provides access to journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports. (EBSCO)

Journals are 99% peer-reviewed, with extensive coverage since the 1800s, and some coverage into the 17th and 18th centuries.
You can use the Classification Categories and Codes as a search limiter to narrow your results.
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PsycARTICLES
Contains the full-text of 100 journals, including all of the APA publications. NOTE: You will find more results by searching PsycINFO. Everything in PsycARTICLES is included in the more extensive PsycINFO database. (EBSCO)

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Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
This "collection" is subset of full-text resources from other EBSCO databases on psychological and behavioral sciences topics. (EBSCO)
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
MMY contains full-text reviews for testing instruments used in psychology, education, business and leadership. Includes all volumes since the first (1938). Note: MMY does NOT include the tests themselves. Also includes Tests in Print, a bibliography of commercially available tests currently in print, in English. From the Buros Institute. (EBSCO)

Useful Web Resources

This is a very small collection of Web sites that can help you research psychology and counseling.

Addiction Counselor
A state-by-state guide to addiction counselor education and licensure, plus additional information about the profession, including LGBTQ+ Resources.
APA: Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
The ethical principles and guidelines governing the professional conduct of psychologists. From the American Psychological Association.
DSM-V (An Introduction)
This is not the complete DSM-V, but does provide an introduction to it.
PA State Board of Psychology: Code of Ethics
Online text of PA Administrative Code, Title 49, Chapter 41.61: Code of Ethics. The official legal code of ethics for psychology in Pennsylvania.

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In Aug 2012, there was a proposal to amend the Code of Ethics. See the PA Bulletin Doc. No. 12-1596. Whether this proposal was accepted is currently unclear--and being investigated by a librarian. Stay tuned!

Annotated Bibliographies

Annotated Bibliographies
Learn how to create an annotated bibliography. Note the links to additional "Example" and "Samples" pages in the left-hand menu. From the OWL at Purdue University.
How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
Need help creating an annotated bibliography? This guide offers helpful tips. From Cornell University libraries.

Video Resources

If you are looking for media related to psychology and counseling these links may be a helpful place to start.

Counseling and Therapy in Video
Counseling and Therapy in Video provides a large online collection of video for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. View real counseling sessions to see various therapies in action. (Alexander Street Press)
Films on Demand: Digital Educational Video
This video collection offers thousands of full-length programs and tens of thousands of video segments! Topics include: humanities, sciences, medicine, business, social sciences, and more!

YouTube
Free online video sharing service. (As if I needed to tell you that.)
Psychology Channels
Counseling Channels

Related Resources

These resources are not made "specifically" for psychology research--but you might find them helpful.

OneSearch
OneSearch combines most of the library's resources into a single database. Rather than search databases separately, you can do just "one search." OneSearch includes articles, books, ebooks, and more. Hint: You will get a lot of results, so use the limits on the left side to focus in on what you need. (EBSCO)
Academic Search Ultimate
Find articles about almost every academic subject. This is our main resource for online, full-text articles. (EBSCO)

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Education Source
The premier education research tool, Education Source covers all levels of education, as well as all educational specialties such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. (EBSCO)

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ERIC
ERIC is one of the standard databases for education research (and useful for communication studies and psychology research). ERIC covers two types of materials: documents [reports, papers, book chapters, etc.] and journal articles. (EBSCO)

Alternate Access from the Dept. of Education site: ERIC: Institute of Education Sciences
Note: Anyone can use the Dept. of Education site--which provides free access to many ERIC documents and articles.
Cal U patrons: Using EBSCOhost gives you access to more full-text articles.
Gender Studies Database
Covers the full spectrum of Gender Studies. This tool combines the Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. (EBSCO)

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Google Books
Search the full-text of millions of books. Use as a "discovery" tool to find books on your topic. Books in the public domain (generally, pre-1923) are available full-text. Newer books offer limited viewing--from many pages to nothing.Note: This is just for books (and some magazines). To find scholarly articles, use Google Scholar.

Learn more About Google Books and the Google Books Library Project.
Additional info at: Google Books Wikipedia Article
Google Scholar
Google Scholar finds scholarly articles, books, papers, etc. Note: Look for "Full-Text @ Cal U" links in order to access items available through the library.

For more info, read about Library Links.
JSTOR Journal Archive
A full-text archive of over 1,700 of the best scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, mathematics, life sciences, etc. Full-text is available from the first issue, but usually does not include the most recent 2-5 years. Note: A very small number of journals now include current content.
LGBT Life with Full Text
The definitive index to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender issues. Includes the full-text of many publications, including some books. (EBSCO)

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MEDLINE Complete
This premier medical research database includes very high end journal content, with significant full-text availability. Note: This EBSCO version of MEDLINE provides many more full-text articles than PubMed. (EBSCO)

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Info from the NIH: MEDLINE, PubMed, and PMC (PubMed Central): How are they different?
SocINDEX with Full-Text
An important resource providing extensive coverage of sociology, social work, anthropology, and related topics. (EBSCO)

Alternate Access: Combined Search of SocINDEX and Social Work Abstracts
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