Librarian
Katie Thonen
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Contact:
Louis J. Blume Library
1 Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, TX 78228
1 Camino Santa Maria, San Antonio, TX 78228
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What's in this PS 3383 class guide?
This course research guide is designed to help you complete your research project.
- This Overview page lists relevant databases, top psychology journals, and more.
- Choose a Topic offers tips on developing your research topic.
- Search Discover, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar for scholarly empirical articles.
- ILL & TexShare will help you get a source you need if it is not available at the Blume Library.
- APA Citations and Zotero will help you figure out how to cite articles and more.
We're happy set up a one-to-one research consultation to discuss your research project. Use my profile link to book an appointment.
In-Class Library Activity - Fall 2024
- PS 3383 - Locating Empirical Articles - Fall 2024Document from in-class library activity.
Select Databases for Psychology
Search these databases to find articles, books, videos, and more on psychology topics.
- Discover This link opens in a new window
Blume Library's primary search tool. This robust feature helps scholars find scholarly journals and articles, books, eBooks, music, videos, government information, and more. Input the keywords of your research to generate a results list full of articles and items covering the topic. Use boolean phrases (AND, OR, NOT) and other limiters to focus a search or modify a results list. This tool searches most of the Blume Library holdings including the Library Catalog of physical items and eResources.
Learn more about this powerful resource: DISCOVER
Reach out to a Blume Librarian for research assistance: RESEARCH ASSISTANCE - PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowThis ever-expanding collection of behavioral and social science research, dissertations, and scholarly literature abstracts offer a broad view of the field. With relevance to a host of related disciplines, including neuroscience, business, nursing, law, and education. APA PsycInfo delivers the peer-reviewed content and abstracts students and researchers need and does so with remarkable precision and a dedication to scholarly and scientific excellence.
Focused on the interdisciplinary aspects of worldwide behavioral and social science research and literature, APA PsycInfo is a resource for locating scholarly research findings in psychology and related fields across a host of academic disciplines.
Features include:
Coverage dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, with extensive coverage from the 1800s to the present
Authored and edited books and book chapters
Dissertations selected from Dissertation Abstracts International (Sections A and B)
Publications from more than 50 countries
Journals published in 29 languages - PubMed This link opens in a new windowComprises more than 30 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher websites.
Note: only abstracts and open-access articles are available through this resource. - ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowIncludes full-text journals, and some open-access items, focusing mainly on the physical, life sciences, and social sciences. This subscription also includes titles to support counseling and psychology.
Notable Psychology Journals
Check out the Journal List search to determine if the Blume Library offers access to a journal.
- Journals ListLooking for a specific journal? Use Journals List to search for the title of a journal, newspaper, or magazine and tell if the library offers online access or print access to the publication.
This is a brief list of key journals in psychology. You will find more scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in PsycINFO.
Popular Psychology Magazines
Useful Books
Effective Writing in Psychology Papers, Posters, and Presentations by Call Number: BF76.7 .B45 2012ebPublication Date: 2012eBook
Publication Manual (OFFICIAL) 7th Edition of the American Psychological Association by Call Number: F76.7 .P83 2020 (2nd & 3rd Floors)ISBN: 9781433832161Publication Date: 2019The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition is the official source for APA Style. With millions of copies sold worldwide in multiple languages, it is the style manual of choice for writers, researchers, editors, students, and educators in the social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, nursing, communications, education, business, engineering, and other fields.
