• PsycINFO
  The most comprehensive index for Psychology: indexes journal articles, books and book chapters, and dissertations, and provides direct links to some online articles.

• Medline via PubMed
  Indexes articles in the medical literature, including many aspects of psychology, from the mid 1960's to the present. A particularly helpful feature is the ability to find "Related Articles" from references. The PubMed Tutorial, from the National Library of Medicine, gives techniques for author and phrase searching and shows how the database interprets searches.

• Web of Knowledge
  Consists of the Science Citation Index, 1965- and the Social Sciences Citation Index, 1990- Provides wide subject coverage and unique ways of searching for related articles.

• Additional database suggestions from the Heard Library Page

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You can register with these services to receive email (daily, weekly, monthly) when new papers on a topic or by particular authors are published.

• PsycINFO SDIs -- See also Guide to saving and running searches automatically on PsycINFO
• ScienceDirect - journals from Elsevier
• Wiley Interscience
• IngentaConnect - indexes over 28,000 journals in a broad range of disciplines. Provides subject and table-of-contents alerting services

You can also use "Acorn Alerts" to receive email notices of new library books with authors or subjects you choose.

• Acorn Catalog - select 'Account Login'. Once logged in, you'll be able to choose authors and subjects from each search to add to your profile.

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• CogNet, from MIT
  Online access to hundreds of recent books from the MIT press. The CogNet Reference Collection includes
• The Cognitive Neurosciences III (Gazzaniga)
• The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS)
• The Visual Neurosciences I and 2 (Chalupa)
• The Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
• The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks (2nd edition)
• The Handbook of Multisensory Processes

Titles can be searched and read online, but printing is prohibited. Many MIT press titles are also available in Netlibrary (which allows selective printing).

• The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
  Third edition, 2001. From NetLibrary. A good source for summarized information.

• Oxford Dictionary of Psychology - from Oxford Reference
  2001. Brief definitions, with links to related concepts.

• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
  Newly updated and fully searchable. Provides reference articles in the areas of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical and Applied Psychology, Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science, as well as social science fields of ancillary interest: Ethics of Research and Applications, Evolutionary Sciences, Gender Studies, more...

• Mental Measurements Yearbook
  Provides reviews of psychological tests.

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Most of the psychology journals Vanderbilt subscribes to are now online, at least for recent years. All of our online journals are included in Acorn, the library catalog.

Cancelled Titles, as of December 2004

• Behavior Modification
• International Journal of Social Psychiatry
• Marriage and Family Review (individual volumes will be selected)
• Revista Interamericana de Psicologia

New Subscriptions

• Behavior research methods, instruments & computers, 2001-
• Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 2002-
• Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 1996-
• Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1999-
• Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 1997-
• Learning and Memory, 1999-
• Personal Relationships, 2002-
• Structural Equation Modeling, 2000-

PsycArticles - scholarly journals from the APA and Canadian Psychological Association

• American Psychologist
• Behavioral Neuroscience
• Canadian Journal of Behavioral Science, 1998-
• Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1998-
• Canadian Psychology, 1998-
• Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice & Research, 1993-
• Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 1998-
• Developmental Psychology
• Emotion, 2001-
• European Psychologist, 1996-
• Experimental & Clinical Psychopharmacology,1993-
• Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, & Practice, 1997-
• Health Psychology, 1993-
• History of Psychology, 1998-
• Journal of Abnormal Psychology
• Journal of Applied Psychology
• Journal of Comparative Psychology
• Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology
• Journal of Counseling Psychology
• Journal of Educational Psychology
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition
• Journal of Family Psychology
• Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 1996-
• Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
• Neuropsychology
• Prevention & Treatment, 1997-
• Professional Psychology - Research & Practice
• Psychoanalytic Psychology
• Psychological Assessment
• Psychological Bulletin
• Psychological Methods, 1996-
• Psychological Review
• Psychology & Aging
• Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
• Psychology of Men & Masculinity
• Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 1995-
• Rehabilitation Psychology, 1997-
• Review of General Psychology, 1997-

Collections of Journals

• CogPrints -- Electronic Archive of papers pertinent to the study of cognition (open access)
• PsycLine: Links to Psychological Journals -- Links you to journal home pages and information about the journals. Use it to find out about existing journals in the field, contact publishers, and browse tables of contents and abstracts.

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• APA Style
  The official site from the APA. Includes citation formats for online sources.
• APA Documentation Styles
  From the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Guidelines for paper preparation and citing print sources.
• APA Style Essentials
  From Vanguard University. Includes sample papers.

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• Athabaska University Psychology Resources -- A good collection of links, from a university with a strong distance education program
• Current Topics in Psychology
• The Psi Cafe: A Psychology Resource Site -- Information on key theorists
• PsycSite: Science of psychology: Resources
• Psych Web -- Psychology resources on the internet sorted by topic

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• American Psychological Association -- Info on APA conferences, style, etc.
• American Psychological Society
• Federation of Behavioral, Psychological and Cognitive Sciences -- Links to member organizations and affiliates
• Psi Chi -- The National Honor Society in Psychology
• Psychonomic Society -- Note: online access to all of the Society's journals is available from the library's home page
• Society for Neuroscience
• Psychology Professional Societies -- Alphabetical list from the World Wide Web Virtual Library
• Links to Psychological Organizations on the Web -- From the International Union of Psychological Science

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• AI, Cognitive Science and Robotics -- Conferences, workshops, journals, etc.
• Neurosciences on the Internet -- From neuroguide.com. Professional organizations and meetings, e-journal, newsgroups, etc. (includes keyword search capabilities)
• Personality Project -- Academic programs and departments, syllabi, organizations, conferences, research lab directories, journals, etc.
• Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences -- Society meetings & publications
• Vision Science -- Academic programs and departments, organizations, conferences, journals, etc.

For Fun

• Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena -- Animates and explains common visual illusions

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