Background Information Databases
Search across large collections of scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries at once. Entries can be helpful for general understanding, keywords, and mining the reference sections.
- 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.
- Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new windowDictionaries, encyclopedias, guides and handbooks from a range of social science fields.
- 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.
Dictionaries
APA Dictionary of PsychologyCall Number: Main Library BF31 .A65 2015ISBN: 9781433819445Publication Date: 2015
Encyclopedias
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of PsychologyCall 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 PsychologyCall 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 MindCall 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.
