University of Cincinnati


 psychology resources

The Clermont College Library web page can be accessed at http://www.ucclermont.edu/library
If you are not on campus, use the ‘Off Campus Access’ link on the Library’s website to login and validate that you are a member of the Clermont College community.

Articles (Indexes and Databases)

Psychological and Behavioral Sciences Collection
(http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=pbh)
Index, abstracts, and full text covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Includes some full text or has links to full text.

PsychInfo (http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://rave.ohiolink.edu/databases/login/psyc) Index and abstracts of articles, books, chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology. Includes some full text or has links to full text.

Annual Review of Psychology
(http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/psych) Indexes and contains the full text of literature review articles in psychology and related areas.  It is published annually and coverage is from 1950 to the present.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?profile=web&defaultdb=loh Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher, publication date; price; time requirements; existence of validity and reliability data; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations.

HaPI – Health and Psychological Instruments
(http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://gateway.ovid.com/autologin.html)
Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. This link brings up the News Page, click "continue" button at the top of this page, then choose the database.

There are many online, full-text journals available to you.  Below are titles of a few psychology journals:
 
 Addiction   Human Performance
 American Psychologist   Journal of Counseling Psychology 
 Behaviour Research and Therapy    Journal of Educational Psychology
 Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice   School Psychology Quarterly


Books, Reference and Media

From Oxford Reference Online, you will be able to use the Dictionary of Psychology: (http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html)

The Clermont College Library has a variety of sources available in its reference and circulating collection. Most can be found in the BF range, such as these reference resources:

Tests : a comprehensive reference  for assessments in psychology,
education, and business
REF BF176 .T43 2008
The Praeger handbook on stress and coping REF BF575.S75 P73 2007
Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence REF HQ 772 .G27 1997
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Growth and Development REF QP84 .C26 1

An effective way to find resources on your topic of interest do a KEYWORD or SUBJECT SEARCH by using the
online catalog (http://uclid.uc.edu/search/X). For example, search: 

Social Phobia AND treatment

You may also limit your location to “Clermont”. However, be aware that this limit would eliminate electronic books and resources from the results.

Web Resources

Spaces are ‘_’s in web addresses.

American Psychological Association (http://www.apa.org)

Association for Psychological Science (http://www.psychologicalscience.org/)

International Society for Mental Health (http://www.ismho.org/)

The Ohio Department of Mental Health (http://www.mh.state.oh.us/)

Kentucky Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services (http://mhmr.ky.gov/mhsas/resdir.asp)

The National Institute of Mental Health (http://www.nimh.nih.gov/)

Encyclopedia of Psychology (http://www.psychology.org/)

Social Psychology Network (http://www.socialpsychology.org/)

Internet Mental Health (http://www.mentalhealth.com/)

 



revised 07/2008 - Kathleen Epperson
created 08/2003 - Rosemary Young