Psychology - Internet Guide

Psychology Subject Directories, Guides and Search Engines
Psychology Schools
Associations / Organisations
Electronic Journals
Tests
Writing Guides and Citing Electronic Formats
Psychology Publishers

Psychology Subject Directories, Guides and Search Engines

See also, the Library's Searching the Internet page which lists links to : Search Engines, Subject Directories & Guides, Meta Search Engines, Email Discussion and Newsgroups and Finding People.

Argus Clearinghouse
The Argus Clearinghouse lists a selective collection of value-added psychology guides which identify, describe and evaluate the quality of Internet based information resources.

British Academy Portal
A directory of online resources for Psychology designed for higher education and research purposes.
Produced by British Academy, UK.

BUBL Link
A catalogue of selected Internet resources catalogued according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System. This is the link to their general Psychology Guide. All the sites listed are selected, evaluated, catalogued and described.
Produced by the Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University Scotland, UK.

Intute
Intute provides access to pscyhology resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised using APA PsycINFO terminology. Produced by a consortium of educational institutions throughout the UK.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches scholarly information on the internet. Google Scholar is free to all, but much of the material it finds is not freely available without a subscription. By using the links to Google Scholar on the Library website, and subsequently logging in to Remote Access when you are off-campus, you will be able to access the full text of articles in journals to which the Library subscribes.

MentalHelp.net
Exists to promote mental health and wellness education and advocacy. Provides links to current news, essays, weblogs, podcasts and mental health topics.

Neuroscience, Psychiatry & Psychology, Psychoanalysis
This is an index produced by the Karolinska Institutet, which is Sweden's largest centre for medical training and research.

Psych Web
This Web site contains psychology related information for students and teachers of psychology. Created by Dr. Russell A. Dewey, PhD.

Scirus
A science-specific search engine aimed at scientists and students.
Launched by the publisher Elesvier Science.

Psychology Schools

Departmental Web severs are an excellent way of obtaining information on the availability and content of courses. They often mention the research interests and projects of staff and provide contact details. Many of the larger institutions also provide subject directories of links to other relevant sites.

School of Psychology, University of Sydney
This site provides links to the Psychology Department at the University Sydney. It provides information about staff, courses, student facilities as well as a notice board.

Psychology at Australian Universities
This index is published by Uniserve Science is a comprehensive listing of Psychology Departments in Australia.

Alphabetical Listing of Psychological Departments
Published by the Hanover College Psychology Department, Indiana USA.

Associations / Organisations

Professional organisations usually provide a vast amount of information on their sites including membership information, membership directories, publications, links to relevant sites and other subject based information.

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

American Psychological Association (APA)

Australian Psychological Society (APS)

British Psychological Society (BPS)

Psychological Societies

Social Psychology Network (Psychology Organizations and Conferences)

International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS)

Electronic Journals

University of Sydney Library Electronic Journals
Consult the Library Catalogue for access to both Electronic and Print format journals.
Alternatively, see an Alphabetical listing of Electronic Journals to which the Library subscribes.

CogPrints
CogPrints is a free, full-text e-print archive of published, peer-reviewed journal postprints plus prepublication unrefereed preprints in the cognitive sciences; covering psychology, behavioural biology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy and other related disciplines.

Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

JSTOR
JSTOR is an archive of important scholarly journal backfiles. It gives you access to the full-text of journals from a wide range of disciplines.

PsycARTICLES via Ovid
This link directs you to the University of Sydney's Journals@Ovid, which includes PsycARTICLES. To search PsycARTICLES, from the search screen tick the box to limit your search to the PsycARTICLES subset. PsycARTICLES contains more than 124,000 full-text articles from more than 60 predominately American Psychological Association journals from vol1(1) to present (for most titles).

Science Direct
ScienceDirect is a Web database for scientific research in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences with links to the article full-text for selected journals and other publications.

Tests

Mental Measurements Yearbook Online
This premier database for information on published tests is available to University of Sydney staff and students and contains full text information about and reviews of, all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.

See also the section on Tests in the Psychology Guide's Specialist Psychology Encyclopedias, which includes information about the University of Sydney Psychology Department's 'Test Library'.

APA Online: Science: Testing and Assessment
Produced by the American Psychological Association, includes useful links to other testing-related sites.

Psychological Research on the Net Psychology Department, Hanover College, USA
Provides links to known experiments on the internet that are psychologically related. They are organised by topic.

Writing Guides and Citing Electronic Formats

See also Style Guides in the Library's collection.

The following guides provide formats and examples as models for referencing (citing) both print and electronic formats that might appear in the bibliography of a research paper.

APA Style Electronic Formats Guffey, M. E.

Citation & Style Guides The University of Sydney Library

Electronic References APA Online: APA Style.org

Guides to writing in Psychology The University of Sydney School of Psychology

The Write Site The University of Sydney, Humanities & Social Sciences, 2006.

Psychology Publishers

Acer Press

American Psychological Association

Blackwell - Psychology and Psychiatry titles

Cambridge University Press

DA Books Information Services - new Psychology titles

Guildford Press

Hogrefe & Huber

Jessica Kingsley

John Benjamins

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

MIT Press

Neuropsychology Arena

Oxford University Press

Powells

Pro-ed

Psychology Press

Routledge

Sage

Springer Psychology

Wiley

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Email: psychology@library.usyd.edu.au

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