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Psychology: A Select Guide to Reference Sources |
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Listed here are some general reference sources for Psychology. You should use LINC to look for other materials. Instructions on how to use LINC is available at http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/l/. Library of Congress Classification for PsychologyLibrary materials are arranged on the shelves in classified order and readings on this subject are usually classified as follows: BF 1-940 Psychology This guide contains the following sections:
1. Literature GuidesBanister, Peter, (et al.). Qualitative methods in psychology : a research guide. Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1994.
Baxter, Pam M. Psychology : a guide to reference and information sources. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1993.
Borchardt, D. H. and R. D. Francis. How to find out in psychology : a guide to the literature and methods of research. New York : Pergamon, 1984.
Camic, Paul M. and Sara J. Knight, eds. Clinical handbook of health psychology : a practical guide to effective interventions. Toronto : Hogrefe &
Huber Publishers, 1998.
Douglas, Nancy, E. and Nathan Baum. Library research guide to psychology : illustrated search strategy and sources. Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pierian Press, 1984.
Dyer, Colin. Beginning research in psychology : a practical guide to research methods and statistics. Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1995.
Herron, Nancy L., ed. The social sciences : a cross-disciplinary guide to selected sources. 3rd ed. Englewood, Colo. : Libraries
Unlimited, 2002. An introduction to statistics in psychology : a complete guide for students. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1999.
Li, Tze-chung. Social science reference sources : a practical guide. 3rd ed. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Michie, Jonathan, ed. Reader’s guide to the social sciences. 2 vols. Chicago
: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
Reed, Jeffrey G. and Pam M. Baxter. Library use : a handbook for psychology. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 1992.
Searle, Ann. Introducing research and data in psychology : a guide to methods and analysis. New York : Routledge, 1999.
Webb, William H. Sources of information in the social sciences : a guide to the literature. 3rd ed. Chicago : American Library Association, 1986.
Bibliographic guide to psychology. New York : Macmillan, 1985-1999.
Loke, Wing Hong. A guide to journals in psychology and education. Metuchen,
N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1990.
Lubin, Bernard, (et al. ). Research on group treatment methods : a selectively annotated bibliography. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
Wepsiec, Jan. Social sciences : an international bibliography of serial literature, 1830-1985. New York : Mansell, 1992.
4. Encyclopaedias/Dictionaries
Colman, Andrew M. A dictionary of psychology. Oxford : Oxford University
Press, 2001.
Colman, Andrew M. Companion encyclopedia of psychology. 3rd ed. London : E.
Arnold, 1998.
Corsini, Raymond J . and Alan J. Auerbach, eds. Concise encyclopedia of psychology. 2nd ed. New York : J. Wiley, 1996.
Corsini, Raymond J., ed. Encyclopedia of psychology. 2nd ed. New York :
Wiley, 1994.
Corte, Erik de, ed. International encyclopedia of developmental and instructional psychology. New York : Pergamon, 1996.
Hayes, Nicky and Peter Stratton. A student’s dictionary of psychology. 4th ed. London : Arnold, 2003.
International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. New York : Elsevier, 2001. 26 vols.
Kazdin, Alan E., ed. Encyclopedia of psychology. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2000. 8 vols.
Smelser, Neil J. and Paul B. Baltes, eds. International encyclopedia of the social and behavioral sciences. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2001. 26 vols.
Stuart-Hamilton, Ian. Dictionary of cognitive psychology. Bristol, Pa. : J.
Kingsley Publishers, 1996.
Stuart-Hamilton, Ian. Dictionary of developmental psychology. Bristol, Pa. :
J. Kingsley Publishers, 1995.
Stuart-Hamilton, Ian. Dictionary of psychological testing, assessment and treatment. Bristol, Pa. : J. Kingsley Publishers, 1995.
Sutherland, Stuart. The Macmillan dictionary of psychology. 2nd ed. London :
Macmillan, 1995.
Winn, Philip, ed. Dictionary of biological psychology. New York : Routledge,
2001.
Wolman, Benjamin B., ed. International encyclopedia of psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis & neurology. New York : Produced for Aesculapius Publishers by Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1977. 12 vols.
Bishop, Lloyd K. and Paula E. Lester. Instrumentation in education : an
anthology.
Corcoran, Kevin and Joel Fischer. Measures for clinical practice : a sourcebook. 3rd ed. New York : Free Press, 2000. 2 vols.
Groth-Marnat, Gary. Handbook of psychological assessment. 4th ed. Hoboken, N.Y. : J. Wiley, 2003.
Maruish, Mark E., ed. Handbook of psychological assessment in primary care settings. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Pub., 2000.
Plake, Barbara S. and James C. Impara, eds. The fourteenth mental measurements yearbook. Lincoln, Neb. : Buros Institute of Mental Measurements,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2001.
Sweetland, Richard C. and Daniel J. Keyser, eds. Tests : a comprehensive reference for assessments in psychology, education and business. 3rd ed. Kansas
City, Mo : Test Corp of America, 1991.
Go to
http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg > E-Resources
> Databases > Title PsycARTICLES Published by the American Psychological Association, PsycARTICLES is recognized worldwide as a leading full text source for academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines. Featuring a continuously growing number of significant and highly regarded periodicals, PsycARTICLES is an unmatched resource for information in behavioral science.
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Sociological Abstracts
E-Journals
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Below is a select list of titles :
E-Newspapers
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Factiva Factiva is a platform that offers news and business information and a product of the Dow Jones and Reuters Company. Factiva, which replaced Dow Jones Interactive in June 2002, provides access to publications from 152 countries, written in 22 languages. This encompasses information from close to 9,000 sources from local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, company profiles, market research reports.
LexisNexis Academic Contains full-text documents from nearly 6,000 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications. The newspapers covered include Bangkok Post, The Financial Times, The Times (London), The New York Times. For Singapore newspapers, Business Times (Singapore) and The Straits Times are available from 1 May 1992.
Arts & media in Singapore. 2nd ed. Singapore : Ministry of
Information & the Arts, 2000.
Census of population 2000. Singapore : Dept. of Statistics,
2001. Available at URL : The website has a quick count and 9 advances data releases showing the data collected from the census carried out in 2000. Data includes economic characteristics, education, religions, household income and fertility.
Census of population 2000 : advance data release. Singapore : Dept. of Statistics, 2001.
Cheung, Paul Po Lo. A guide to Singapore official statistics. Singapore :
Dept. of Statistics, 1999. Chew, Soon Beng, Leu, Mike Gwo Jiun and Tan, Kim Heng. Values and lifestyles of young Singaporeans. Singapore : Prentice Hall, 1998. Chia, B.H. Too young to die : an Asian perspective on youth suicide. Singapore : Times Books, 1999.
Guide to Singapore official statistics : Singapore official statistics and related information on the internet. The major types of Singapore official statistical information available on Internet are summarised here at the URL : http://www.singstat.gov.sg/stats/singstat/internet.html
Lim-Yeo, Pin Pin. Statistics on Singapore : an annotated list of sources in NUS Library. Singapore : Reference & Information Services Dept., NUS Central Library, 2000.
Connect to http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/bib/ss/sscont.html
Yearbook of Statistics Singapore. Singapore. Singapore : Dept. of Statistics, 1968- HA1801 SYS (CL Information Desk, CL Singapore-Malaysia Collection)
For theses, go to http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg > E-Resources > Databases > By Type > Theses and Dissertations
Local Theses/Academic Exercises
Australian Digital Theses Database National database of digitised masters and doctoral dissertations available via the web. All the universities in Australia contribute to the database.
Hong Kong University Theses Online Comprises more than 11,280 titles and dissertations submitted for higher degrees to the University of Hong KOng since 1941. These include works in the arts and humanities, education, the social, medical and natural sciences, many of them deal entirely with or focus on subjects relating to Hong Kong.
Index to Theses with Abstracts accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland (1716-) The Index to Theses with Abstracts includes works accepted for higher degrees by the universities of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Council for National Academic Awards. This database comprisesthe following print equivalents :
ProQuest digital dissertations
Ballenger, Bruce. The curious researcher : a guide to writing research papers. 4th ed. New York : Pearson/Longman, 2004.
The Chicago manual of style. 15th ed. Chicago :
University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Cone, John D. and Sharon L. Foster. Dissertations and theses from start to finish : psychology and related fields. Washington, D.C. : American
Psychological Association, 1993.
Li, Xia and Nancy B. Crane. Electronic styles : a handbook for citing electronic information. 2nd ed. Medford, N.J. : Information Today, 1996.
Ownby, Raymond L. Psychological reports : a guide to report writing in professional psychology. 3rd ed. New York : John Wiley, 1997.
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. 5th ed. Washington, D.C. : American
Psychological Association, 2001.
Rosnow, Ralph L. and Mimi Rosnow. Writing papers in psychology : a student guide. 5th ed. Pacific Grove : Brooks, 2001.
Steinberg, Robert J. The psychologist's companion : a guide to scientific writing for students and researchers. 3rd ed. New York : Cambridge University
Press, 1993.
Smyth T. Raymond. Writing in psychology : a student guide. 2nd ed. New York :
John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
Turabian, Kate L. A manual for writers of term papers, theses and dissertations. 6th ed. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996. Content by: Lynette Lim
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