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Background Information (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Handbooks)

Dictionary of Cognitive Science :
Neuroscience, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, and Philosophy
Location: JPL Reference Stacks BF311 .V56713 2004

Handbook of Psychology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks BF121 .H1955 2003 v.1-12

Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
Location: JPL Reference Stacks BF311 .E53 2003

Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
Location: JPL Reference Stacks & Downtown Library, Reference BF31 .E52 2001

Dictionary of Biological Psychology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QP360 .D52 2001

Dictionary of Psychology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks BF31 .C64 2001

The Encyclopedia of Memory and Memory Disorders
Location: JPL Reference Stacks BF371 .N55 2001

Handbook of Clinical Child Psychology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks RJ503.3 .H36 2001

Encyclopedia of Psychology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks BF31 .E52 2000
Location: Downtown Library, Reference BF31 .E52 1994

Encyclopedia of Stress
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QP82.2 .S8 E53 2000

INS Dictionary of Neuropsychology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks QP360 .I55 1999

Handbook of Child Psychology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks BF721 .H242 1998
Location: Downtown Library, Reference BF721 .H242 1998

Handbook of Counseling Psychology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks BF637. C6 H315 2000
Location: Downtown Library, Stacks BF637 .C6 H316 2003 (2nd ed.)

Dictionary of Statistics for Psychologists
Location: JPL Reference Stacks BF39 .E927 1999

Handbook of Social Psychology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HM251 .H224 1998

Encyclopedia of Mental Health
Location: JPL Reference Stacks RA790.5 .E53 1998

Psychologists' Desk Reference
Location: JPL Reference Stacks RC467.2 .P78 1998

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Books

Books and Materials at the UTSA Library

UCAT, UTSA Library Online Catalog
Search UCAT to locate books, journal titles (not articles), government documents, maps and multimedia materials available at the UTSA Library. Read the Search Tips to learn how to conduct a better search.

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• Classics in the History of Psychology
  Free Website: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/
  This website provides full-text documents of historically significant works in the field of psychology.

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Databases & Article Searching

Annual Reviews Online
Free Website: http://www.annualreviews.org/
Published annually by Highwire Press, this website offer comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists, providing syntheses of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. Includes Annual Review of Psychology, from 1950 to current. Full Text

Biological Abstracts (UTSA subscription)
Provides bibliographic references and abstracts of life science journal literature. The database includes citations to articles about agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, genetics, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. Coverage is international and begins in 1980. Updated regularly. Citations Only

Blackwell Synergy (UTSA subscription)
Includes full-text content from nearly 700 journals published by Blackwell Publishing in art, education, literature and linguistics, economics and finance, psychology, political science, sociology, and many other subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage varies. Updated regularly. Full Text/Full Image

Health Reference Center - Academic (UTSA subscription)
Provides selected abstracts and full-text access to a variety of health information sources including 40 nursing and allied health journals, consumer health magazines, reference books, newsletters, health pamphlets, newspaper articles, and general interest titles, from the early 1980s to the present. Full Text

Medline (UTSA subscription)
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, this database provides citations to articles from over 3,900 journals published in the United States and seventy other countries. MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources in allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. Coverage is from 1966 to the present. Updated regularly. Citations Only

Project Muse (UTSA subscription)
Full-text and full-image versions of several Johns Hopkins University Press's scholarly journals in math, science, humanities and the social sciences, including titles in psychology and psychiatry. Searchable by keyword and by journal. Full Image

ProQuest Psychology Journals (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to more than 400 full-text, full image psychology journals. Updated regularly. Dates of coverage vary by journal but some coverage is from 1987 to present. Full Text

PsycArticles (UTSA subscription)
Provides full-text articles from nearly 50 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), the APA's Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Updated regularly. Dates of coverage vary by journal, but some coverage is from 1988 to present. Full Text/Full Image

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image for over 400 scholarly journals, many of them peer-reviewed. Topics covered by the database include emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Dates of coverage vary widely, with most articles originally published from the mid- and late 1990s to present. Full Text/Full Image

Psychology: a SAGE Full-Text Collection (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text access to over thirty journals published by Sage on topics in psychology and related areas such as psychiatry, family studies, and Latin American studies. Coverage for some titles dates from 1982. Updated monthly. Full Text

PsycInfo (Ovid Interface) (UTSA subscription)
PsycInfo (CSA Interface) (UTSA subscription)
Covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, sociology, education, and linguistics, from 1967 to the present. Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 1,400 journals worldwide as well as books, and book chapters in the English language. Dissertations are also included, although not abstracted. ProQuest interface provides some linking to full-text via the PsycArticles and ProQuest Psychology Journals databases. Citations Only.

ScienceDirect (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to approximately 700 journals published by Elsevier Science. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1,100 journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full Image

Wiley InterScience (UTSA subscription)
Provides full-text access to approximately 200 of the more than 400 journals published by Wiley, plus tables of contents and abstracts. Updated constantly. Full Image

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Tests and Measures

UTSA Library Multimedia Center - Testing Materials
Free Website: http://lib.utsa.edu/Services/Circulation/test_inst.html
This is a list of educational and psychological tests that are available for check-out in the UTSA Library Multimedia Center.

Mental Measurement Yearbook Test Reviews Online
Free Website: http://www.unl.edu/buros/
Provided by the Buros Institute, this website helps you find where tests and test reviews are located. Search by alphabetical listing, test category, or keyword. Over 4000 tests are listed; over 2000 have been reviewed by the Buros Institute.

Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests Available in Compilations
Free Website: http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/Test&meas/testmainframe.htm
This index of tests and measures was created by Helen Hough, Central Sciences Information Specialist, University of Texas at Arlington. If you find an item in this index and want to know if UTSA Library has the item, search the list of Psychological Tests in Books at the UTSA Library. Items not available at the UTSA Library can be obtained through Interlibrary Loan .

Remember, if you want to use a test in a manuscript that you plan to publish, you must obtain permission from the publisher before using the test.

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Organizations and Other Web Resources

American Psychological Association
Free Website: http://www.apa.org
The official website of the American Psychological Association contains information about books and journals published by the organization. Site also includes information about citing in APA style.
For additional APA citation guidelines, see the subject guide APA Journals at the UTSA Library.

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Free Website: http://www.aacap.org/
Provides information about developmental, behavioral and mental disorders in children and adolescents.

American Psychological Society
Free Website: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/
The official website of the American Psychological Society. Provides information about employment opportunities, journals published by the organization, funding opportunities, etc.

NIMH: National Institute of Mental Health
Free Website: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
Official website of the National Institute of Mental Health. Contains a wealth of information about mental disorders, funding for research, clinical trials, employment opportunities, etc.

Psi Chi: The National Honor Society in Psychology
Free Website: http://www.psichi.org/
Official website of Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology. Contains information about the organization, its members and chapters, and available awards and grants for students of psychology. Provides access to abstracts and some full text from society publications Eye on Psi Chi and Psi Chi Journal.

Psych Web
Free Website: http://www.psychwww.com/
Provides links to websites that cover a broad range of topics in psychology such as self-help, scholarly resources, and careers in psychology.

Psychology World Wide Web Virtual Library
Free Website: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/psi/
Maintained by the University of Florida, provides links to websites that have been evaluated for their adequacy as information sources. Includes links to general information resources, books and publishers in the field, employment resources, professional societies, and more, with a site search for added convenience.