Literature Review Research in Psychology
Writing Undergraduate Research Proposals in Psychology

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Orbis
Yale University Library's contains entries for titles the Library has acquired. For help using Orbis, see the Guide to Using Orbis.

WorldCat
A database of over 50 million records of books and other materials. See the WorldCat Search Guide for more information.

Eureka
Database of more than 22 million titles. A search guide for Eurkea is available.

PsycINFO
Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. The PsycINFO WebGuide can help you with your searching.

Social Science Full Text
Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 560 English-language periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals.

Sociological Abstracts
Includes journal citations and abstracts; book, chapter, and association paper abstracts; and book, film, and software review citations. Entries cover sociological aspects of twenty-nine broad topics.

Education Full Text
Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 570 English-language periodicals and yearbooks in education.

ERIC
Includes journal articles, books, theses, conference papers, and standards and guidelines in education. As of August 2005 indexes over 200 journal titles and contains over 1 million records.

Scopus
Provides broad coverage of the sciences and social sciences, indexing 14,000 journals. Also provides citation analysis (back to 1996, and eventually to expand to 1990). Learn more about searching Scopus using their tutorials.

Web of Science
The ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover and is one of two databases specifically created to search literature cited by other authors. Learn about Cited Reference Searching.

Social Psychology Network
A comprehensive source of social psychology information that contains over 3,000 links.

Society for Personality and Social Psychology
The Society is the largest organization of social and personality psychologists in the world. Publishes the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Personality and the Social Psychology Review.

Society of Experimental Social Psychology
Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP) is a scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of social psychology. Publishes the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

American Psychological Association (APA)
The largest association of psychologists in the world. APA is also one of the largest publishers of psychology literature.

American Sociological Association
Web site for the national organization for sociologists. It is the main professional association for sociologists in the United States.

PsychScholar
Collection of web resources for psychological scholars and students created at Hanover College.

Psychology Online Resource Central
General online resource in psychology.

APAStyle.org
The American Psychological Association has established an editorial style that it uses in all of the books and journals that it publishes available in the reference collections of the Sterling Memorial Library and Social Science Library with the call number

BF76.7 P83 2001 (LC)

Publication Manual of the American Psychology Association (5th ed.). (2001). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.