Librarian
Ryan L. Sittler (California)
He / Him / His
Contact:
232 Manderino Library
PennWest California
PennWest California
724-938-4923
Subjects: Communication, Psychology & Counseling
Welcome!
Welcome to the Psychology and Counseling Guide. This guide will introduce you to resources that may help you with your assignments and projects. If you need assistance, please visit the Help page.
Psychology & Counseling Research Databases
- APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window A definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.
- APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window This renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
- Ebsco eBook Collections This link opens in a new window Access thousands of full-text electronic books across multidisciplinary and subject specific collections.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook w/ Tests in Print This link opens in a new window Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests In Print provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 3,000 contemporary testing instruments. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
Video Resources
If you are looking for media related to psychology and counseling these links may be a helpful place to start.
- AVON: Psychology & Counseling Psychology & Counseling video channel from Academic Video Online, one of our streaming video databases.
- YouTube: Psych & Counseling Free online video sharing service. Psychology Channels Counseling Channels
Related Research Databases
These resources are not made "specifically" for psychology research--but you might find them helpful.
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window Alternate Link: Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO Classic Interface)
- Education Source This link opens in a new window The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, conference papers, and citations for over 4 million articles.
- ERIC This link opens in a new window The Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index, dating back to 1966.
- Google Books Search the full-text of millions of books. Use as a "discovery" tool to find books on your topic. Books in the public domain (generally, pre-1923) are available full-text. Newer books offer limited viewing--from many pages to nothing. Note: This is just for books (and some magazines). To find scholarly articles, use Google Scholar.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Use this link to show PennWest full text in your Google Scholar results.
- JSTOR Collections This link opens in a new window A full-text archive of over 1,700 of the best scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities, and life sciences disciplines. Includes access to ARTStor and JSTOR Primary Sources
- MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more, dating back to 1857 with full-text back to 1865. MEDLINE Complete is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 1,800 journals.
- SocINDEX w/ Full Text This link opens in a new window The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. This database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
