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This is a guide to some of the most important electronic resources in the field of Psychology. Email or phone the subject specialist for more information and assistance.

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Citing References - APA

APA (American Psychological Association) style is one of the common citation styles for referencing:

APA Style Guide from Purdue Online Writing Lab
The resource provides the American Psychological Association (APA) citation and format style. It contains resources on in-text citation and the References page, as well as APA sample papers, slide presentations, and the APA classroom poster.
You may also read the Citation style recommendations / guidelines for other disciplines from the University.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association
Call Number: BF76.7 .P83 2020
Publication Date: 2019-10-01
7th edition
Concise Guide to APA Style by American Psychological Association Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: WZ39 .C66 2020
Publication Date: 2019-12-01
7th edition

Major Online Psychology Resources

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works
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Contains real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material.
MEDLINE via OvidSP
Coverage: 1946 - present
US National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database of citations and abstracts currently from approximately 5,000 biomedical journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Coverage extends back to 1946 in which OLDMEDLINE records are included.
MEDLINE via EBSCOhost
Coverage: 1946 - present
US National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database of citations and abstracts currently from approximately 5,000 biomedical journals in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care systems, and preclinical sciences. Coverage extends back to 1946 in which OLDMEDLINE records are included.
PTSDpubs
Coverage: 1871 - present
Provides index and abstracts to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.
APA PsycArticles
Provides full text access to 70 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.
Psychology : A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Includes the full text of 34 professional journals on various aspects of psychology.
APA PsycInfo
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Coverage: 1806 - present
Provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Scopus
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Coverage: 1823 - present
Includes the abstracts and references of 15,000 peer-reviewed journals across different subject disciplines.
Social Sciences Citation Index at Web of Science
Coverage: 1956 - present
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Includes all cited references captured from indexed articles and supports cited reference search.
Serials Directory
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Provides up-to-date bibliographic information and pricing structures for popular serials. It contains 212,000 U.S. and international titles, including newspapers; data from 108,235 publishers worldwide.
Ulrichsweb.com
Ulrichsweb is an authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types -- academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.

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