Subject Description:

    Academic Indexes and Electronic Journal Collections

ERIC (CSA)

Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)       1980 - present Includes scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers across multiple disciplines, many with full text and images.

Professional Collection    A daily-updated custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators; covers: arts and humanities, child and adolescent psychology and development; drug and alcohol abuse, health; nutrition; fitness; learning disabilities, literature, school law, science and technology, social science, and sports/athletic training.

PsycARTICLES         1987-present PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists.

PsycINFO        1887 - present, updated monthly Lists articles from more than 1300 international journals in psychology and related fields. Abstracts are included.

PubMed - Medline     1966 - present Covers the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences. Includes a lot of chemistry and biology sources.

Science Direct        1998 - current Electronic journals from Elsevier. ***Note that we only have selected titles from 1998 to present***

SpringerLink        1997 - present Over 1,250 journals and 2,500 books from Springer covering the subject areas of bio-medicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, English, math, computer science, the humanities and economics.

Wiley Online Library    Electronic Journals and eBooks from Wiley offering extensive science coverage. Wiley also includes resources on fields of accounting, agriculture, art, business, humanities, and the social sciences including psychology.

    General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles

Academic Search Premier     Academic Search? Premier contains indexing for nearly 8,050 publications, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for over one hundred journals, and searchable references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains full text coverage in biology, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion & theology and sociology.

Business Source Premier     Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,800 journals, including full text for more than 900 peer-reviewed business and psychology publications.

GenderWatch        1970's - present GenderWatch, a full text index, covers the impact of gender in the following subject areas: Culture and the arts; business and finance; education; feminist teaching; public education; gender discrimination; family; health and healthcare; international issues; physical activity, sports and fitness; politics and issues of public policy; religion and spirituality, including issues of equity in organized religion; and women's and gender studies.

    Indexes, Other

Child Development Abstracts and bibliography     1974-2001 Location: Ref Z 7204 .C5 C45 Check SUMMON Record

Dissertations & Theses         1637 - present Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Full-text is provided for those dissertations added since 1997 as well as older graduate works. Masters theses from selected schools only. Those published since 1988 include abstract. Provides bibliographic citations for dissertations dating from 1637. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988.

    Catalogs

MnLINK Gateway Provides a way to search library catalogs across Minnesota simultaneously. Of special interest here is that the Morris Public Library catalog is available in the Viking Library System.

Pounce: Briggs Library Catalog Pounce is the new catalog for the Rodney A. Briggs Library. Pounce contains information on all of the items in the collection.

WorldCat    Searches for books and other items held by libraries across the United States, with selected international coverage. This is where you go when you want the widest possible search for books.

    Dictionaries

APA Dictionary of Psychology Location: REF BF 31 .V295 2006 Check SUMMON Record

Dictionary of Psychology Location: Ref BF 31 .C72 1999 Check SUMMON Record

    Encyclopedias

Adolescence in America Location: Ref HQ 796 .A33247 2001 (2 v.) Check SUMMON Record

Encyclopedia of Aging Work contians many cross references and an extensive bibliography. Location: Ref HQ 1061 .E53 2001 Check SUMMON Record

Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol Written as a comprehensive source of information for non-specialists who have an interest in any of the diverse topics that are included under the broad general heading of substance use and abuse. Location: HV5804.E53 1995 v.1 v.1-4 Check SUMMON Record

Encyclopedia of Health Psychology Reference work for understanding the behavioral, emotional and social influences on health; Location: Ref R 726.7 .E53 2004 Check SUMMON Record

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality 2 v. Location: Ref HQ 76.25 .E53 1989 Check SUMMON Record

Encyclopedia of Human Emotions Location: Ref BF 531 .E55 Check SUMMON Record

Encyclopedia of Leadership Includes articles exploring leadership theories and practice; includes biographical essays and case studies focused on leaders and their followers. Location: Ref HD 57.7 .E53 2004 Check SUMMON Record

Encyclopedia of Psychology 8 v. Location: Rev BF 31 .E52 2000 Check SUMMON Record

Parenthood in America Location: Ref HQ 755.8 .P3783 2000 Check SUMMON Record

    Guides

Graduate Study in Psychology Location: Ref BF 77 .G73 2005 Check SUMMON Record

    Handbooks and Manuals

Handbook of Educational Psychology Location: Ref LB 1051 .H2354 1996 Check SUMMON Record

Handbook of Psychology 12 vols. Location: Ref BF 121 .H1955 2003 Check SUMMON Record

Handbook of the Psychology of Women and Gender Examines major contemporary theories, trends, and advances in the field of women and gender. Location: HQ 1206 .H2385 2001 Check SUMMON Record

Mental Measurements Yearbook 3rd. ed - 15th ed. Location: Ref Z 5814 .P8 B932 Check SUMMON Record

    Electronic Texts

State of the World's Children

    Gateways & Megasites

MEDLINEplus MEDLINEplus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 500 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and dictionaries, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.

Scholarly Societies Project: Psychology

    Internet Directory

Scirus Scirus is a science-specific search engine. It searches both free and fee-based information sources, including scholarly journals indexed in PubMed, ScienceDirect, Beilstein Abstracts, and several preprint databases.

    Official Agency and Organization Web Sites

American Psychoanalytic Association

American Psychological Association

American Psychological Society

Buros Center for Testing

Child Care and Early Education Research Connections Partnership of government and educational entities that provides a comprehensive resource source for researchers and policymakers.

International Psychoanalytical Association

UMM Psychology Discipline

    Search Engines

Forensic Psychology Search Engine

Web4Health: Medical Search Engine on Psychology/Psychiatry

    Web Sites

Psychological Research on the Net

    Style Manuals

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association Style manual for writers in psychology, other behavioral and social sciences, nursing, criminology, and personnel areas. Location: Ref BF 76.7 .P83 Check SUMMON Record

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