Research Guides: Psychology: Getting Started

Background Reading and Topic Development

Take a look at the Library's guides on choosing a topic and the research process to help you get started. Explore a topic in the resources below.

Encyclopedia of Psychology This link opens in a new window
Coverage: varies
Included are the categories on careers, environment behavior relationships, organizations, paradigms and theories, people and history, publications, resources, and underlying reductionistic machinery.
Psychology (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Gale OneFile: Psychology provides access to authoritative periodical content supporting research in all fields of psychology abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology. Researchers, psychologists, counselors, and behavioral scientists will discover relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in this comprehensive collection.

PsycArticles (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Full text of 51 journals published by the American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Funded by the UMBC Psychology Department.
PsycINFO (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Coverage: Some Full Text
PsycINFO abstracts scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in the behavioral sciences and mental health and psychology. It contains over 3 million records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with journal coverage starting in the 1800s, including international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals.

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