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Psychology
Research Guide
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Sigmund and Anna Freud in
Dolomites, Italy, Library of Congress |
Finding Books |
Selected Reference Works |
Databases |
Web Resources
Finding Books
Use
CLIO
to find books (including reference books), journals, links to
online journals, and other materials, in the Columbia or Barnard
libraries. CLIO does not index journals. Use an online
index or database to locate articles on a particular topic.
Useful call numbers:
Psychology: BF1 to BF990
Psychiatry (including psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, etc): RC435 to
RC569.5
Some useful subject headings in
CLIO:
Psychological tests
Psychology, experimental
Gestalt psychology
Consciousness
Motivation
Psychology, applied
Psychology, comparative
Sex (psychology)
Developmental psychology
Identity (psychology)
Libraries
Psychology Library
409 Schermerhorn (directions)
NYS Psychiatric Institute Library
is located in the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10032 (directions)
You can visit this library using your Columbia/Barnard ID, but you can't borrow books. Scanning of
materials is free at this library.
Selected Reference Works
available in Barnard Library Reference Area and Online
| Title |
Call Number |
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APA
Dictionary of Psychology |
BF31
.A632 2007 |
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Dictionary of Psychology - Colman |
BF31 .C65
2006 |
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Encyclopedia of Psychology |
BF31 .E52 2000 |
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The Corsini Encyclopedia of
Psychology and Behavioral Science |
BF31 .E52 2001 |
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The Penguin Dictionary of
Psychology |
BF31 .R43 2001 |
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Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association |
BF76.7 .P83 2001 |
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Signed articles |
H41.I58 2001 |
Mental Measurements Yearbook
Descriptive information and critical reviews of over 2,000
commercially-available tests and measures. |
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Databases for finding articles in journals, statistics, etc.
available with Columbia ID
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
An Ovid database with citations to identify and evaluate measurement tests used in health
and psychosocial studies.
Ovid Search Tips:
for all the Ovid databases
- Multiple words together are taken as a phrase.
- For truncation (to find variant endings), use $.
- For a Keyword search, uncheck the box next to “Map Term to Subject Heading.”
- For a more focused search using subject terms, check the box next to “Map Term to Subject Heading.”
- To combine previous searches, click on "Combine Searches," check appropriate boxes, then click “Continue.”
- you can switch between Ovid databases and repeat your searches using "Change Database" at the top
MEDLINE
An Ovid database (Medline
is also available through OCLC FirstSearch, so it appears twice on the Databases list) with citations and abstracts for articles in
biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, published from 1950
to the present.
Search tips: see Ovid
Search Tips above
PsycARTICLES
Full-text articles from
60 peer-reviewed journals and chapters from selected books published by the American
Psychological Association.
Search Tips: Use quotes to search for a phrase, and
* for truncation (to find variant endings).
PsycINFO
An Ovid database with citations and abstracts for articles in the psychological, social, behavioral,
and health sciences, published from 1806 to the present.
Search tips: see Ovid Search Tips above
Proquest
Contains scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers (e.g. NY Times back to 1851).
Search tips:
- Two words together are taken as a phrase; three or more will be searched as separate words.
- Use * for truncation (to find variant endings).
Social Sciences Citation Index
A Thomson-ISI Web of Science database that lists all the citations used in every article in the database;
useful for determining if any articles have cited a specific article or book, for tracing the development of
an idea, or to examine the references of an article you cannot obtain.
Search tips:
- Use quotes to search for a phrase, and * for truncation.
- Limit document type to "Review" to obtain articles that provide an overview of a topic.
- "Times Cited" is a rough measure of how influential the paper is in the field.
Social Sciences Full Text
Citations and abstracts for articles in social sciences
periodicals, including psychology.
Search Tips:
- When using the "All - Smart Search" query, do not use quotes or
truncation symbols. The results will be ranked by relevance in an "All - Smart Search" query.
- However, if you use quotes with an "All - Smart Search" query, the
automatic truncation will be turned off and the search will only find exactly what you entered.
Web Resources
American Psychological Association Online
Association for Psychological Science (previously the American
Psychological Society)
Psychology Subject Guide from Columbia University Libraries
Encyclopedia of Psychology
online
Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing Archive: PEP Web
Psych Web
Psychological Research on the Net
Psychology World Wide Web Virtual Library
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