Psychology Study Guide

This guide provides links to help you create a research strategy for Psychology. Knowing which options are available allows you to quickly select those most appropriate for your topic. 

To start your research, SCC Library Information Specialists suggest:

LINCC Online Catalog Subject Browse Lists linked to SCC Library holdings including the Call Number & Availability for each.

Browsing Guide to Psychology Call Numbers

Library Worksheet Guides:

• Developmental Psychology
• General Psychology

Internet Links

How to Use PsycFIRST, in FirstSearch (OCLC), to find references on your topic. PsycINFO Thesaurus is available within this database.

Locate Full Text for PsycFIRST articles

How Do you know if a journal is peer reviewed, scholarly, refereed?

LINCCOnline Catalog Subject Browse Lists which are linked to SCC Library holdings & include the Call Number & Availability for each.

Browsing Guide To Psychology Call Numbers

Psychology Internet Links

Associations

• American Psychological Association
• APA Monitor Online
• COAF (Child of Alcoholics Foundation)
• SIOP (Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology)
   

General

• Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
• Psychology in Daily Life
• Psych Web by Russ Dewey
   

Guides

• Searching PsychFirst
• SFX
   

Industrial & Organizational 

• Internet Survival Guide of Industrial/Organizational Psychology (Filip Lievens)
• I-O related pages on the WWW (SIOP)
• Resource center/playground in Industrial & Organizational Psychology
• for new students & experienced professionals alike! (Patrick McCarthy)
• SIOP (Society for Industrial & Organizational Psychology)
   

Journals

• Psycline
• Psychiatry On-Line (independent, free, peer-reviewed journal)
• Self-Help & Psychology Magazine
   

Journals in Databases

• Academic Search Premier Subject List: Scroll to Psychology.
• PsycFIRST is a subset of PsycINFO that contains abstracts from the current & most recent 3 update years. It is updated monthly & includes all document types.
• WilsonSelectPlus Full text titles (No subject list available.)
   

Mega Sites

• Psych Web (Russell A. Dewey, PhD.)
• Social Psychology Network (Wesleyan Univ.)
• Megalists of Psychology-Related Sites on the Web
• Psych Central (Dr. John Grohol)
• Psychology (Yahoo)
• PsychREF (Vincent Hevern)
• Psych Web (Russell A. Dewey, PhD)
• Social Psychology Network (Wesleyan Univ.)
   

Online Tests

• Career Key
• Personality Type
   
  

Using PsycFIRST in FirstSearch (OCLC), To Find References On Your Topic
Database Description: PsycFIRST is a subset product of PsycINFO, an American Psychological Association database, providing abstracts from the current & preceding 3 years of journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations & reports on psychology & related fields.

Entering FirstSearch (OCLC)

1. On the Research Quick Start page, at “Locate Periodical Articles in Online Databases,” locate & click LINCCWeb Online Databases.
2. At Borrower ID, type the Borrower ID number located on your SCC Library ID card.
3. At PIN, type your Personal Identification Number. Your default PIN is the last 4 digits of your Social Security number.
4. Click the “Log on” button.
5. At the Alphabetical Database List, locate and click PsycFIRST (OCLC).
6. Click the “Connect to Database” button. Note: This opens another browser window.

Using PsycFIRST

1. At "Search for," type your subject. Leave "Keyword" selected.
2. At "Limit to: Language Phrase," click on the drop-list and select "English."
3. At "Limit to: Document Type, " click on the drop-list and select "Peer Reviewed Article."
4. Click "Search"
5. On the "List of Records" screen, click on any article title (The blue underlined statement) to get the
        "Detailed Record" screen.
    

Locate Full Text

A. Locate Full Text Linked from PsyFIRST Using SFX

B. Locate Full Text not linked from PsyFIRST

1. Psychology journals in Databases: table details which indexed journals contains full-text. 
2. Psychology journals in Databases: Academic Search Premier Full-Text, Peer Reviewed Psychology & Psychiatry Titles
3. Psychology journals in Databases: Omnifile full-text peer reviewed psychology journals
4. Psychology journals owned by SCC Psychology - Periodicals
5. Psychology journals owned by UCF Psychology- Periodicals
   
6.  Psychology journals owned by UCF Psychology, Applied- Periodicals  
7. Do an ILL request for material not owned by SCC LRC.
8. Copy the article at a library that owns it.
    

E-mail or Print

You can print or e-mail an article by clicking the e-mail icon or the print icon instructions.
 

PsycINFO Thesaurus available within PsycFIRST, in FirstSearch (OCLC)
Click the Subjects  icon to browse the list of subject headings. This feature is useful when you need to refine the search terms you have chosen or when you are looking for alternative search terms to broaden the scope of your search. Use Subjects  to browse for subject headings based on a term or concept.
 

1.  Click the "x" in the upper right corner to close the >
2. Click the Back button until you return to the “Research Quick Start” page.

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