Ready Reference Sources
Encyclopedias, Directories
and Handbooks
- Corsini Encyclopedia
of Psychology and Behavioral Science (BF 31 E52 2001 REF); this
title is also available electronically and may be checked out for a
24 hour period via netLibrary.
- Directory
of Scholarly Societies in Psychology.
- Drug
DB. Database to access drug information resources on the Internet.
- Encyclopedia
of Children and Childhood : in history and society.
(HQ767.84 .E53 2003
REF); also available online.
- Encyclopedia
of Psychology. (BF 31 E52 1994 REF)
- Handbook of
Child Psychology. (BF 721 H242 1998 REF)
- Handbook of
Psychology. (BF121 .H1955 2003 REF); great starting point for a
project-- each volume is topical, including areas such as 'Health Psychology,'
'Forensic Psychology' and 'Assessment Psychology.'
- International
Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family (HQ 9 E52 2003 REF); also
available online.
- Notable
Psychologists. Links to sites containing biographical information
on, and writings of notable psychologists.
- Psychology
with Style: A Hypertext Writing Guide.
- Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association. (BF 76.7 P83 2001
REF)
- Stevens' Handbook
of Experimental Psychology. (BF 181 S8 2002)
Searching
for Books
You can look for books
by searching the Five College
Online Library Catalog by author, title or subject. The following
are examples of subject headings that might be useful: "Adolescent
Psychology," "Developmental Psychology," "Self Esteem
in Women," and "Sex Role--United States." You may also find
it helpful to browse
the BF range of call numbers in the main stacks for additional
resources.
LITS also subcribes to PsycCritiques,
an APA resource for book
and film reviews of recent publications. Reviews date back as far as 1995.
Searching
for Journal Articles
- PsycInfo
(1872 - present)
This bibliographic database covers the professional and academic literature
in psychology and related disciplines. Coverage is worldwide, and includes
references and abstracts to over 1,800 journals, and dissertations in
more than 30 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English
language. Linked from PsycINFO is access to PsycARTICLES,
an ejournal collection that contains recent issues of the 40 journals
published by the American Psychological Association, along with 3 journals
published by the Canadian Psychological Association and 6 journals published
by Hogrefe and Huber.
Updated monthly. The PsycINFO index also exists in print format under
the title Psychological Abstracts from 1927- 1969 and can be
found in the Science Periodicals. Journals
Indexed.
- Child Development
Abstracts and Bibliography. Available in print format from 1927-
2001 in the Science Periodicals.
- ERIC
(Educational Resources Information Center)(1966 - present)
National index to materials in the field of education, sponsored by
the U.S. Department of Education. Contains over 700,000 citations covering
research documents, journal articles, technical reports, curricular
materials, etc. Records marked "EJ" are citations to journal
articles; "ED" are "ERIC Documents," texts which
are available through three major avenues: 1) The fulltext of "ED"
documents from 1993-present are now available online and are directly
linked from ERIC; 2) For "ED"
documents prior to 1993, UMass Amherst has most of these on microfiche--the
UMass librarians encourage you to ask for help on your first visit.
3) If you are not in a hurry, or can't get to UMass, you may also submit
an interlibrary
loan request for ERIC documents that are not available
online, just be sure to include the "ED #" somewhere in your
request. Journals
Indexed.
- Family
Index (1995 - present)
Interdisciplinary
index for periodical articles covering a wide range of topics in family
studies; includes over 2000 journal titles. This database is preceded
by the Inventory of Marriage and Family Literature which is available
in print format only from 1973 to 1994 in the Main Reference Room, call
number: HQ 728 A482 REF. Updated monthly.
- PubMed
(1966 - present)
PubMed provides access
to health/medical related information which is drawn primarily from
MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, HealthSTAR, as well as publisher-supplied citations.
This is a good place to look for topics related to neuroscience, pharmacology,
and many other areas combining psychology and medicine. PubMed
Journal Information. Online
Help. PubMed
Tutorial.
Identifying
and Locating Measurement Tools
Finding
a measurement or survey tool can be a lengthy, frustrating, and sometimes
expensive process.
The following are resources to help you not only understand this
process, but to assist you in finding tools for your research. Once you
identify a citation to a survey or measurement tool that sounds appropriate,
you usually have to write to the publisher (this may be a corporation, university,
or even a person) to receive a copy of the tool and the copyright permission
to reproduce it. Occasionally, you may find a survey tool in the appendix
of a journal article. In such instances, you will still need to contact
the author of the article for permission to use the tool in your own research.
- PsycInfo
and ERIC
databases may also be searched to try to find articles including
measurement tools in an appendix. Try subject headings like "measurement,"
"measures," or "tests" to pair with your other
search terms. Remember, just because an article cites a measurement
tool doesn't necessarily mean that the tool itself will be included
in the article, you will need to look at the article itself to determine
if the tool is present.
- ETS
Test Collection. A database of records on over 20,000 tests
and research instruments, created by both ETS and ERIC. UMass owns
the collection "Tests in Microfiche" which is indexed
in this database. This might be a fruitful option if you are don't
have time to send away to a publisher. When you do a search, look
at the field marked "Availability" to follow the source
to track down the test itself.
- Encyclopedia
of Psychological Assessment.
Covers a wide range of specific areas of study in psychology, from
Achievement Motivation to Well-Being (including Life Satisfaction).
Entries include a general conceptual and methodological overview,
a section on relevant assessment devices, and a list of references.
A good place to start as you are thinking about what kind of measurement
tool you might want to use to conduct research. A source such as
"Tests in Print" (named below) can be used to follow-up
on tools described here. BF 176 E53 2003 Ref.
- Finding
Information About Psychological Tests. FAQs from the APA
on the sometimes frustrating process of identifying and obtaining
measurement or survey tools.
- Internet
Psychology Lab. Online experiments in the areas of Visual
Perception, Cognition, and Audio Perception.
The
following are the major resources developed for the purpose of identifying
and evaluating appropriate measurement tools. These resources
provide the contact information for the publisher and/or author of a
measurement tool; they do not provide the tests themselves.
Estimated price for buying a copy of the tool is usually posted as well.
- Mental
Measurements Yearbook
-- In two steps, this resource
provides contact information and reviews of
instruments to help you identify an appropriate tool; please note
that this resource does not have the instruments themselves. When
you do a search, the results should have 'Publisher' information
which will point you to getting your hands on the tool itself. There
will also be a 'Reviewed In' section that tells you where to get
reviews or more information on an instrument to see if it is a good
fit. Most often, these reviews are located in the print version
of the Mental Measurements Yearbook located in
the Reference Room @ Z 5814 P8 B932 Ref. (they charge $15 dollars
for the reviews online!)
- Tests
in Print Z5814.E9
T47 Ref.
- Directory
of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures BF 431 D598 Ref.
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