To Find Books
Use the MERLIN Library Catalog and the MOBIUS Union Catalog to find resources relevant to your research. Relevant works can be found using subject headings (Library of Congress) such as:
- Aggressiveness Psychology
- Aggressive Behavior In Animals
- Anxiety
- Attitude Psychology
- Collective Behavior
- Community Psychology
- Crowds
- Ethnopsychology
- Experimental Design
- Extrasensory Perception
- Human Experimentation In Psychology
- Motivation Psychology
- Neuropsychology
- Organizational Behavior
- Parapsychology
- Political Psychology
- Psychology
- Psychology Experimental
- Psychology Comparative
- Psychology History
- Social Psychology
- Substance Abuse
To find the location of a book in Miller Nichols Library, see the Location Guide.
To Find Articles
Remote (off-campus) access to databases is available only to UMKC students, faculty, and staff. All other users must access online resources within the Libraries. Begin searching by selecting a database. After selection you will be prompted to provide a UMKC Single Sign-On user name and password OR a 9-digit UMKC ID number followed by the letter k (example: 0123456789k) and last name, as needed.
- PsycINFO (Ovid) 1872 - present.
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PsycINFO (Ovid) 1967 - present. Save to del.icio.us
PsycINFO (Ovid) 1985 - present. Save
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Contains citations and abstracts of journal articles and other research materials in the various areas of psychology. Link to Ovid Web user's guide. -
Sociological Abstracts (CSA) 1963 - present. Save to del.icio.us
"CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added since 1973 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Major areas of coverage include: culture and social structure; demography and human biology; economic development; environmental interactions; evaluation research; family and social welfare; health and medicine and law; history and theory of sociology; management and complex organizations; mass phenomena and political interactions; methodology and research technology; policy, planning, forecast and speculation; radical sociology; religion and science; rural and urban sociology; social development; social differentiation; social psychology and group interaction; sociology of the arts, business, education; studies in violence and power; substance abuse and addiction; welfare services; and women's studies." [Source: Sociological Abstracts Factsheet, accessed February 17, 2005]
- OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1994 - present.Provides indexing, abstracts, and some full-text from five of Wilson's full-text indexes: General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.
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Reference Sources: Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Tests
Reference sources are useful for locating background information, definitions, general descriptions, and basic facts. Use these books to help you select or focus your research topic.
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted. Titles are linked to the corresponding MERLIN Library Catalog record.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
| Encyclopedia of Psychology (8 vols.) | Ref BF31 .E52 |
| Eponyms in Psychology: A Dictionary and Biographical Sourcebook | Ref BF31 .Z87 |
| Survey of Social Science. Psychology Series (6 vols.) | Ref BF31 .S79 |
| Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (4 vols.) | Ref BF31 .E5 |
| Encyclopedia of Learning and Memory | Ref BF318 .E53 |
| Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology (2 vols.) | Ref BF1407 .E52 |
Handbooks
| Library Use: A Handbook for Psychology | Ready Ref BF 76 .8 .R43 |
| Reference Handbook of Research and Statistical Methods in Psychology | Ref BF76.5 .R43 |
| Handbook of Child Psychology (4 vols.) | Ref BF721 .H242 |
| Handbook of Multicultural Counseling | Ref BF637 .C6 H3174 |
| Handbook of the Psychology of Aging | Ref BF724.55 .A35 H36 |
Additional Sources
| Portraits of Pioneers in Psychology (3 vols.) | Ref BF 109 .A1 P67 |
| The Psychology of Gender | Ref BF692.2 .P764 |
Tests
| Major Psychological Assessment Instruments | Ref BF176 .M35 |
| The Mental Measurements Yearbook | Ready Ref Z5814 .P8 B932 |
| Tests in Print V | Ready Ref Z5814 .E9 T47 |
See Also: Library Guide to Tests and Measures.
Government Publications
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted.
- GPO Access Current edition. Save to del.icio.us
Full text. A service of the U.S. Government Printing Office, this database provides access to information products produced by the federal government, including the Federal Register, Public Laws and the Congressional Record. "The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted." [Source: GPO Access homepage, accessed June 21, 2006.]
Web Resources
- American Psychological Association
This is the WWW site of the American Psychological Association. It compiles information for the public and APA members. You can read selected stories from the APA Monitor, APA ethics information, or some of the most recent news releases produced by The Public Affairs Office of the APA. (www.apa.org)- APA Style - How to cite electronic references.
- UMKC Libraries Guide to Citing Information Sources (APA Style)
- Sigmund Freud and the
Freud Archives
This site is provided by The A. A. Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, which is perhaps the largest psychoanalytic library in the world. Find out about research organizations and universities conducting research in the field, Freud-related Internet sites, electronic journals, discussion groups, and listservs on FreudNet.
(www.freudarchives.org/)
- Psycholoquy - A Peer-Reviewed
Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal
This is the site of a refereed international, interdisciplinary electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association. It publishes target articles and peer commentary in all areas of psychology as well as cognitive science, neuroscience, behavioral biology, artificial intelligence, robotics/vision, linguistics and philosophy.
(psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/) - PsychWeb
This site contains psychology-related information that is useful to both undergraduate students and teachers of psychology. One of the various sections of Psych Web includes a list of articles from counseling centers and on-line journals. Several links are provided to assist students with things like writing a psychology research paper and selecting and applying to graduate schools.
(www.psychweb.com)
Use search engines linked on the Internet Search Tools page to identify additional Web resources.
For further assistance, please contact the
Miller Nichols Library Reference Desk at (816) 235-1534.
