Subject Guides: Psychology: Find resources

Finding books for Psychology

Books

The main Psychology print book collection is located in the Psychology (B) section on the first floor of the JB Morrell Library. Materials relevant to Psychology are found, however, in many sections of the Library - always use YorSearch to find what you need.

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Lots of our books will also be available online as e-books. Look for the links in YorSearch, under the View Online section of each book.

Finding journals

All journal titles are listed on YorSearch. Search for the title of the journal you need.

The majority of the Library's journals are available online. Click on View Online to see the full-text journal online if available. Electronic access may be offered by more than one link so check which years are available. Click on the link to get to the full-text journal.

If the journal you need is not available online, click on Find in Library to check what is available and where it is shelved.

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Reading Lists

Books

For each module you take, you will find at least one reading list on the Yorkshare VLE. Many reading lists are made available on Yorkshare using the Library's online Reading Lists system, which links directly to the library catalogue records for items in the Library's collections, plus e-books, e-journal articles and other Web resources.

Further recommendations may be provided in module guides, or during lectures or seminars. You can search YorSearch to find the item you need, using the author's name and/or title keywords.

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Psychology

If you're new to a topic and want some ideas about where to start, Oxford Bibliographies Online might help. It provides introductory essays and suggested reading for psychology, presented in articles on specific topics.

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Psychology This link opens in a new window
An up-to-date and authoritative guide to the literature across a wide range of topics in psychology. Sources covered include journal articles, reference works, monographs and book chapters.

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Databases

To start a more detailed search for articles and other research evidence, you'll need to use online databases. These are collections of resources that allow you to search for articles from hundreds of different journals at the same time.

Core resources for Psychology

PsycINFO (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
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PsycINFO is the American Psychological Association's bibliographic database. PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 1,900 periodicals written in over 35 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 80,000 references are added annually through weekly updates.

For help with this resource, take a look at our Quick Guide.
MEDLINE (1946 onwards) (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
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Primary abstracting and indexing service for the medical and biomedical sciences indexing over 4,600 journals. Provides information on:

- Medicine
- Nursing
- Dentistry
- Veterinary medicine
- Allied health
- Pre-clinical sciences

As well as the following topics as they relate to biomedicine and healthcare:

- Biology
- Environmental science
- Marine biology
- Plant and animal science
- Biophysics
- Chemistry

Medline is the electronic version of Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and the International Nursing Index.

Daily and weekly updates.

For help with this resource, take a look at our Quick Guide or try our interactive tutorial.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

For help with this resource, take a look at our Quick Guide.

For help using this resource for bibliometrics see Bibliometrics: a practical guide.

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Additional sources for Psychology

ASSIA (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
ASSIA (Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts) indexes around 650 English language social science journals. Subject coverage includes social services, health, employment, ethnic studies, education, criminology, and related areas.

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Cochrane Library (Wiley) This link opens in a new window
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The Cochrane Library presents the work of the not-for profit Cochrane Collaboration and others interested in assembling best evidence on the effects of health care. It is made up of a number of databases including:

- The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
- The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
- The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects
- The Cochrane Methodology Register
- Health Technology Assessment Database
- NHS Economic Evaluations Database
- About The Cochrane Collaboration

Updated monthly.

For help with this resource, take a look at our Quick Guide or try our interactive tutorial.

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Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Criminal Justice Abstracts aims to provide comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and access to some reports from government and non-governmental agencies. For each document, a summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing. The database coverage extends from 1968 onwards, and is updated weekly.

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EMBASE (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
Also known as the Excerpta Medical Database. EMBASE covers biomedical and pharmaceutical information, indexing over 3,500 pharmaceutical and biomedical related journals. Topics covered include:

- Drug research
- Pharmacology
- Pharmaceutics
- Toxicology
- Clinical and experimental human medicine
- Health policy and management
- Public health
- Occupational health
- Environmental health
- Drug dependence and abuse
- Psychiatry
- Forensic medicine
- Biomedical engineering/instrumentation

Updated daily.
ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
The ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to augment American education by increasing and facilitating the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. The database is updated monthly.

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Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
The Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500 serials publications, and also abstracts of books, book chapters, and dissertations. The database is updated monthly.

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Oxford Bibliographies Online: Psychology This link opens in a new window
An up-to-date and authoritative guide to the literature across a wide range of topics in psychology. Sources covered include journal articles, reference works, monographs and book chapters.

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Oxford Clinical Psychology This link opens in a new window
Clinical psychology titles from Oxford University Press in the areas of forensic mental health assessments, cognitive behavioural therapy, specialty competencies in professional psychology, programs, and treatments.

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Oxford Handbooks Online: Psychology This link opens in a new window
Access to the full text of complete titles and chapters from titles not yet available in print. You will have access to content published online up to and including the year 2022, plus selected individual titles.

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PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It was developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at web sites of participating publishers.

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Scopus This link opens in a new window
Personalisation options are available via the link above.

Alternative link without personalisation if you have problems with the link above (please clear the cookies and cache in your browser): Scopus.
An abstracting, indexing and citation database covering peer-reviewed research literature and web sources in the natural sciences and medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.

For help with this resource, take a look at our Quick Guide.
For help using this resource for bibliometrics see Bibliometrics: a practical guide.
For further information about Scopus metrics see Elsevier's Research Metrics Guidebook.

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TRIP This link opens in a new window
Designed to search for high quality medical resources on the Internet to support evidence-based practice.

Updated monthly.

You'll find our full range of databases through the E-resources Guide.

Box of Broadcasts

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an on demand TV and radio service for education. You can record and access an extensive archive from 65 free-to-air channels, create clips from programmes and compile playlists. See what you can discover today!

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You will need to register for an account the first time that you access Box of Broadcasts.

Please note that you may only access and use Box of Broadcasts in the United Kingdom..
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an on demand TV and radio service for education. Users can record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels and access an extensive archive of programmes already available. Users can also create clips from programmes and compile playlists.

Please note that you may only access and use BoB in the United Kingdom.

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Using YorSearch

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B	Psychology	B 7.91	Psychotherapy (Psychology)
B 2.1	Perception	D	Sociology
B 2.12	Visual perception	D 1.15	Social psychology
B 2.13	Auditory perception	MZ	Linguistics
B 2.3	Learning	MZ 20	Psycholinguistics
B 2.4	Memory	MZ 35	Communication
B 2.5	Cognition/Cognitive neuroscience	Y	Medicine
B 4.1	Personality	Y 2.8	Human neurophysiology
B 5	Developmental psychology	Y 6.89	Clinical/abnormal psychology
B 5.1	Child psychology	Y 6.8917	Psychoanalysis

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