General Background Information
Search across large collections of scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries at once. Entries can be helpful for general understanding, keywords, and mining the reference sections.
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Oxford Research Encyclopedias This link opens in a new window
Designed to be an authoritative resource of reference content in a wide array of academic fields, including the humanities, social sciences, and science.
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Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new windowDictionaries, encyclopedias, guides and handbooks from a range of social science fields.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new windowHandbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias in a wide range of subject areas, including Arts, Biography, Business, Education, Environment, History, Law, Literature, Medicine, Multicultural Studies, Nation and World, Religion, Science, and Social Sciences.
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Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowHundreds of dictionaries, general reference, language reference, and subject reference works from Oxford University Press.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Search dictionaries and encyclopedias for entries that can be helpful for general understanding, keywords, and mining the reference sections.
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APA Dictionary of Psychology (2nd edition)
Contains 26,000 entries offering clear and authoritative definitions, including biographical entries on historical figures.
Call Number: Main Library BF31 .A65 2015ISBN: 9781433819445Publication Date: 2015 -
The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology
The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology is the first and only dictionary that surveys the broad discipline of psychology from an international, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary focus.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780521854702Publication Date: 2009 -
Oxford Dictionary of Psychology (4th edition)
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Including more than 11,000 definitions, this authoritative and up-to-date dictionary covers all branches of psychology. Clear, concise descriptions for each entry offer extensive coverage of key areas including cognition, sensation and perception, emotion and motivation, learning and skills, language, mental disorder, and research methods. The range of entries extends to related disciplines including psychoanalysis, psychiatry, the neurosciences, and statistics. Entries are extensively cross-referenced for ease of use, and cover word origins and derivations as well as definitions. More than 100 illustrations complement the text.This fourth edition has incorporated a large number of significant revisions and additions, many in response to the 2013 publication of the American Psychiatric Association's latest edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, bringing the Dictionary fully up to date with the most recent literature of the subject.In addition to the alphabetical entries, the dictionary also includes appendices covering over 800 commonly used abbreviations and symbols, as well as a list of phobias and phobic stimuli, with definitions. Comprehensive and clearly written, this dictionary is an invaluable work of reference for students, lecturers, and the general reader with an interest in psychology.
Call Number: EbookISBN: 0199657688Publication Date: 2015
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780190236557Updated monthly, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology includes peer-reviewed entries and provides a broad coverage of the field. -
The Encyclopedia of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Call Number: EbookISBN: 9781118339893Publication Date: 2013A comprehensive collection of information relating to the fields of cross-cultural, cultural, and indigenous psychology contributed by scientists and scholars from around the world. Contains a general chronological timeline including both historical and literary key-moments. -
The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Call Number: EbookISBN: 0198662246Publication Date: 2004Includes discussions of concepts such as language, memory, and intelligence, side by side with definitions of common human experiences such as the 'cocktail-party' and 'halo' effects, and the least effort principle.
Online Video
A full list of library-subscribed streaming video collections is available in the A-Z database list, filtered to video.
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Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowStreaming documentaries, films, and demonstrations on topics including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
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Docuseek This link opens in a new window
Educational documentaries and fiction feature films curated to help students examine the issues related to social, ecological, political, and environmental justice around the world.
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Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowA streaming video collection that provides unlimited access to 300,000 video clips in numerous subject areas. Includes captioning with interactive and searchable transcripts on all titles, as well as instructions for embedding videos in learning management systems.
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SAGE Video Counseling & Psychotherapy Collection This link opens in a new windowOver 480 streaming videos on topics including counseling research methods, counseling setting/client groups, theory and approaches, counseling skills, and professional issues.
Data
The following sites contain publicly available datasets that can be imported into various programs, or sometimes analyzed using tools on the website.
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APA Links to Data Sets and RepositoriesA list of publicly available data sets compiled by the APA.
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Data Management Plan Requirements - National Science FoundationRequirements for dissemination and sharing of research results when funded by the National Science Foundation.
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ICPSR This link opens in a new windowICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) maintains an archive of more than 500,000 data files in the social sciences. Includes a bibliography of literature related to the data.
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NIH-Supported Data Sharing ResourcesTo help researchers locate an appropriate repository for sharing or accessing data, BMIC maintains lists of data-sharing repositories.
Professional Organization Websites
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American Psychological AssociationAPA is the leading scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States, with more than 122,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students as its members.
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American Psychiatric AssociationThe mission of the American Psychiatric Association is to promote universal and equitable access to the highest quality care for all people affected by mental disorders, including substance use disorders; promote psychiatric education and research; advance and represent the profession of psychiatry; and serve the professional needs of its membership.
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National Institute of Mental HealthThe National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), one of the institutes that makes up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the largest scientific organization in the world dedicated to research focused on the understanding, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders and the promotion of mental health. The mission of NIMH is to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, and behavior.