Psychology
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PsycINFO Selected Full Text
PsycINFO indexes scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health. ProQuest Help
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 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.
American Psychiatric Publishing (APPI) Full Text
The American Psychiatric Association has published over 250 ebooks on psychiatry, mental health and behavioural science. They are authoritative, up-to-date and aimed at both professionals and students.
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PsycARTICLES Full Text
PsycARTICLES contains full-text articles from journals in psychology and related disciplines. ProQuest Help
This database is the full-text journal (readable journal articles) component of the PsycINFO database.
PsycCRITIQUES Full Text
A database of psychology book and film reviews, updated weekly. Produced by the APA.
NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE
NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE provides access to over 140 reference sources, classic texts and illustrative atlases on clinical neuroscience, lab animal science, neuroscience, neuropsychology and toxicology.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.
Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
SAGE Premier Full Text
SAGE Premier includes 550+ titles in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine with full-text back to 1999.
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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. ProQuest Help
Biology Digest Selected Full Text
Aimed at keeping students and instructors current on the latest developments in biological research.
BioOne Full Text
BioOne provides access to peer-reviewed journals in the biological sciences published by small societies and non-commercial publishers in the United States.
CTIV
Counseling and Therapy in Video includes over 350 videos of therapy sessions with searchable transcripts, including advice from consultants, lecturers and therapist interviews.
JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology.
The JSTOR database includes 188 biological journals, 68 sociological journals and 9 psychology journals.
LLBA Selected Full Text
Language and Linguistic Behavior Abstracts covers all aspects of language and applied linguistics, including language teaching and learning.
Health Collection 
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The Health Collection includes research articles, reports and case studies dealing with health in Australia.
PILOTS
PILOTS indexes the published literature relating to post-traumatic stress disorder or acute stress disorder. It includes research in professional ethics, scientific methodology and public policy.
ScienceDirect Full Text
Science Direct offers full-text access to over 200 Elsevier journals.
SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.
Taylor & Francis Full Text
Access journals in the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
Wiley Online Library Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines. 
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Encyclopedia of School Psychology
Psychologists and their theories for students
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online offers a range of 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 set 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
Web sites and Internet resources
General
APA Style Cribsheet APA Research Style Cribsheet
American Psychological Association Contains information for practising psychologists, students of psychology and the public
Genes to Cognition Online Dolan DNA learning Center (Cold Spring Harbor NY) modern neuroscience focused on cognitive disorders, cognitive processes, and research approaches.
Psychology Test Library The UNE's School of Psychology's links to worldwide psychological assessment resources
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