Library and Internet Guide
The following is a select list of resources available on the Internet
JCU Library Resources
- Library and Computing Services homepage
- Tropicat JCU's library catalogue
- Psychology Guide Guide to psychology resources in the JCU library collection.
- General Social Sciences Resources
Databases
General Information
- Remote access is available for most databases and electronic journals. Simply click on this link, and follow the instructions if you are accessing from off campus.
- Electronic Databases Alphabetical listing of all databases available through JCU
- Database Guides to read online or printout to help in using internet resources. Most databases also provide online help.
Indexing / Abstracting Databases
- PsycINFO
The major psychology journal database, PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, technical reports and dissertations in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines. Journal coverage is from 1887 to date, chapter and book coverage from 1987 to date.
A Journal Coverage List is available from APA.
Other related databases:
- CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
Provides an index to international journals on nursing, allied health, health care and consumer health.- ERIC - via CSA | ERIC - free version
International bibliographic database of educational literature, contains more than 700,000 annotated references to journal (EJ) and non-journal (ED) material.- Informit Online
Includes Australian databases such as FAMILY, APAIS, AEI, Health & Society Database, Australian Medical Index.- Medline
Premier database to every aspect of the health, medicine, biomedical and nursing sciences, available as PubMed.- Sociological Abstracts
Database covering articles relevant to sociology and related disciplines such as social psychology, anthropology, education, health and medicine.Full Text Databases
- PsycArticles
PsycArticles is a set of electronic full text articles from 42 journals published by APA and allied organizations. The collection contains more than 25,000 articles published from 1988 to the present in the area of psychiatry and psychology. - InfoTrac
Two databases with journals of relevance to Psychology. Includes many fulltext journals which are listed in Tropicat. - Social Science Plus on ProQuest 5000. Indexes journals in the social sciences, including some titles of interest to psychology, education, educational sociology. Includes some full text.
Academic Websites
- JCU Department of Psychology - Information on staff, courses, and research at James Cook University, School of Psychology.
- Psychology at Australian Universities - A comprehensive listing of Psychology Departments at Australian universities.
- Index of Psychology Departments - A worldwide listing of Psychology Departments.
Subject Directories & Gateways
- BUBL Resources for Psychology
Selected Internet Resources for psychology- Higher Education Academy Psychology Network
Supports the learning and teaching of psychology in the UK. Includes a database of over 2000 resources.- Intute Social Sciences: Psychology Part of the RDN or Resource Discovery Network in the UK
Resources are evaluated and categorised using the APA PsycINFO coding scheme- Open Directory Project: Psychology
Nearly 2000 links divided by subject- Psych Central
Directory of Web sites associated with psychology, especially mental health- Psychology Online Resource Central
Online resources for psychology students and teachers- Psychology WWW Virtual Library
Sites are inspected and evaluated for their adequacy as information sources- PsychWatch.com
Online resource for professionals in psychology and psychiatry- PsychCrawler
An index produced by the American Psychological Association to provide quick access to quality content in the field of psychology.- Psych Web
A variety of psychology-related resources for both students and teachers.- Social Psychology Network
One of the largest Internet sites devoted to psychological research and teaching. In these pages, you'll find more than 14,000 links related to psychology.- APS Teaching Resources
Compiled by the American Psychological Society, this collection of online materials is divided into topical sections that include health psychology, statistics, clinical psychology, research methods, and a dozen other topics.- Amoebaweb - psychology on the web
Reference Resources
- AllPsych Online
- CCP-Online: Comprehensive Clinical Psychology
(Available to JCU staff and students only)- Merck Manual - Medical manual of diagnosis and therapy
- MITECS: The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences - Free registration required
- Online Dictionary of Mental Health
- Online Medical Dictionary
- Xrefer Full-text reference library including subject-specific encyclopedias and dictionaries
Organisations
- Australian Psychological Society - Information about conferences, employment, courses, news and media releases, and other psychology related resources.
- American Psychological Association - Leading professional association of psychologists in the United States, provides information on a variety of topics.
- American Psychological Society - Focuses primarily on scientific psychology
- American Psychoanalytic Association
- British Psychological Society
- International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) Publisher of the International Journal of Psychology.
- Psychological Societies - Provides links to international psychological societies.
- Society for the Teaching of Psychology
Tests
- JCU School of Psychology Test Library
Provides an extensive collection of restricted and general use psychological tests and a wide range of psychological resources.- APA Tests Site - Information on standards and guidelines for psychological testing, and links to test-related sites.
- Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
- Test Reviews Online
Information on nearly 4000 tests, referring to reviews in the Mental Measurements Yearbook series [ R 155.28 P1]- Testing and Assessment: FAQ about Psychological Tests
- Tests and Testing from the Google Web Directory
Electronic Journals
- JCU Electronic Journals and Databases
Listings of full-text journals and databases available to students and staff of James Cook University.
Journal titles are also listed in Tropicat.- APA Journals - Indexes tables of contents and abstracts only. Use PsycArticles to access full text.
- APA Monitor online
- Electronic Journals and Periodicals - List of online electronic journals for psychology
- Journal Locator in Psychology and the Social Sciences
Index of over 1500 online psychology and social science journals. Links to journal homepage and indicates amount of free information available.- Archives of General Psychiatry on ProQuest | Archives of General Psychiatry homepage
- Australasian Journal of Disaster & Trauma Studies - Fulltext articles of disaster and trauma studies within Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific rim.
- Behavioural and Brain Sciences (JCU staff and students only)
- Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science - Fulltext articles from 1992 to present.
- CogPrints - An electronic archive for fulltext papers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, and other cognitive sciences.
- Current Research in Social Psychology - Fulltext of current issues.
- Psychological Online Documents - Index of world wide online available documents, sorted by topic
- Psycoloquy - An open archive of refereed reprints of all target articles, commentaries and responses from Psycoloquy, a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association, indexed in PsycINFO, and published since 1990.
Study, Assignment & Research Aids
- Methods in Behavioral Research - Provides links to accompany the book at 150.72 COZ 1997
- OWL: Online Writing Lab - over 130 instructional handouts to help you write better
- Study Skills - interactive, self-paced tutorials from JCU on writing assignments and other study skills
- Tips for Article Summaries - Designed to help you learn to read scholarly articles and how to get and summarize the important information
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