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- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- High impact journals
- Web sites and Internet resources
Key databases
PsycINFO Selected Full Text
Scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
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The PsycINFO database includes American Dissertation Abstracts on psychology and the 58 journals of the PsycARTICLES Database.
Psychiatry Online Full Text
Psychiatry online includes access to the full-text of five peer-reviewed journals published by the American Psychiatric Association, the newsletter Psychiatric News, DSM-IV-TR, DSM-IV-TR® Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and its Treatment Companion, and the other psychiatric text books produced by the Association.
PsycARTICLES Full Text
PsycARTICLES contains full-text articles from 58 journals published by a range of publishers in the field of psychology and related disciplines. Publishers included are the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
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This database is the full-text journal (readable journal articles) component of the PsycINFO database.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
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Biological Sciences Selected Full Text
This database covers research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology,ecology, and specific aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
Biology Digest Selected Full Text
Aimed at keeping students and instructors current on the latest developments in biological research.
BioOne Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals published by small societies and non-commercial publishers in the United States.
JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.
The JSTOR database includes 188 biological journals, 68 sociological journals and 9 psychology journals.
LLBA: Language and Linguistic Behavior Abstracts Selected Full Text
Covers all aspects of language and applied linguistics, including language teaching and learning.
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MEDITEXT
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Meditext provides full-text journal articles from the 100+ Australasian medical and health journals indexed in AMI, the Australasian Medical Index. Subject coverage includes all aspects of health and medicine in Australasia such as: alternative medicine, clinical medicine, dentistry, ethics, experimental medicine, immunology, legal aspects, nursing, nutrition, occupational health, pharmacy, physiology, physiotherapy, public health, and psychology. There is an emphasis on clinical medicine and paraprofessional fields.
PILOTS
PILOTS indexes the published literature in post-traumatic stress disorder or acute stress disorder. It covers research on the assessment, description, prevention, or treatment of any psychiatric disorder associated with exposure to a traumatic event. In addition, it includes works discussing professional ethics, scientific methodology, or public policy relating to trauma victims.
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ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.
Taylor & Francis SSH Full Text
Access journals in the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
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Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines. | Discover Wiley InterScience (PDF)
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Encyclopedia of School Psychology
Psychologists and their theories for students
Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
The Oxford Reference online database has a number of useful online reference books such as 'The Oxford Companion to the Mind' and 'A Dictionary of Psychology'.
SAGE eReference
SAGE eReference is a database of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.
SAGE eReference will allow you to select a number of online reference books by subjects such as psychology and sociology.
Other online reference resources
APA Online: Topics
Encyclopedia of Psychology
Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Psychology
High impact journals
The following psychology journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Psychology:
American Psychologist 1946- and is in print at Call Number P150.5/A512
Annual Review of Psychology 1950-
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1996-2003 and is in print at Call Number P152/B419
Behavioral Neuroscience 1983- and is in print at Call Number P156/B419
Child Development 1930-2003 1987- (Gale databases)
Cognition 1994- and is in print at Call Number P150.5/C676
Cognitive Psychology 1995- and is in print at Call Number P153.4/C676
Cognitive Science 1998-2002 (Gale databases) and is in print at Call Number P153.4/C6765
Developmental Psychology 1969-
Ethology is in print at Call Number P156/Z485
Health Psychology 1982- and is in print at Call Number P610.19/H434
Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1965- and is in print at Call Number P157.05/JOU
Journal of Applied Psychology 1917- and is in print at Call Number P158.05/J86
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1968- and is in print at Call Number P157.05/JOU
Journal of Educational Psychology 1910- and is in print at Call Number P370.15/J86
Journal of Experimental Psychology - Animal Behavior Processes 1975- and is in print at Call Number P152.05/J86a
Journal of Experimental Psychology - General 1975- and is in print at Call Number P152.05/J86
Journal of Experimental Psychology - Human Perception and Performance 1975- and is in print at Call Number P152.05/J86h
Journal of Experimental Psychology - Learning, Memory, and Cognition 1982- and is in print at Call Number P152.05/J86L
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 1967-2006 1992- (delayed 1 yr)
Journal of Memory and Language 1995- and is in print at Call Number P153.1/J864
Journal of Organizational Behavior 1988-2003 1996-
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1965- and is in print at Call Number P150.5/JOU
Journal of Vocational Behavior is in print at Call Number P331.7/J86
Learning and Memory 1994- (delayed 1 yr)
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory is in print at Call Number P156.2/B419
Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology & Behavioral Neurology 1988 to 2002
Neuropsychologia 1995- and is in print at Call Number P616.8/N494
Neuropsychopharmacology 2000- (delayed 1 yr)
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 1995- and is in print at Call Number P150.5/O68
Psychological Bulletin 1904- and is in print at Call Number P150.5/P9742
Psychological Inquiry 1990-2003
Psychological Methods 1996-
Psychological Review 1894- and is in print at Call Number P150.5/P9747
Web sites and Internet resources
General
APA Style Cribsheet APA Research Style Cribsheet
Psychology Test Library The UNE's School of Psychology's links to worldwide psychological assessment resources
American Psychological Association Contains information for practising psychologists, students of psychology and the public
PubMed A literature database maintained by the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
Podcasts
All in the Mind an ABC Radio National show - presented by Natasha Mitchell (a science producer/reporter), 'All in the mind' is a program about the mind, brain and behaviour
Institute of Psychiatry podcasts and mp3 audio feeds of public lectures and events at the Institute of Psychiatry, a school of King's College, University of London
The Psych Files a free podcast about 'why people do what they do' for teachers, students and the general public, presented by Psychology professor Dr. Michael Britt
Portals
APA Online Maintained by the American Psychological Association (APA)
PsychGrad.Org The Psychology Graduate's Applicants Portal. Though US-oriented, the links sections may be of interest
PsycPORT A collection of resources including topical psychology news, journals contents, abstracts, and some fulltext articles, maintained by the APA
Social Psychology Network Contains a large number of links, categorized by subject area
Top20Psychology.com A portal site of portal sites for psychology
Journals
PsychLINE Over 1900 psychology e-journals in this easily searchable database, many with full, free online content
Fulltext Psychology Related Journals Part of AmoebaWeb, this site is a useful portal for psych journals. Maintained by Douglas Degelman, Professor of Psychology at Vanguard University