Psychology

• Journal & Article Indexes
• Background Information
• Print Journals & Magazines
• Subject Headings
• Call Numbers

• Citation and Style Guides
• Web Resources
• Psychological Tests
• Associations

Kwantlen Library subscribes to a variety of journals both in print and online. If you're not sure if a journal is scholarly (often called "academic" or "peer-reviewed"), look at our checklist.

Psychology Article Databases

• PsycINFO
• PsycARTICLES
• PsycCRITIQUES

Other Useful more General Databases with good Psychology coverage:

• Academic Search Premier
• Cambridge Journals Online
• Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)
• ERIC Resources in Education
• JSTOR
• ScienceDirect
• Sage Premier
• Social Sciences Fulltext

TIP for Advanced Researchers: Set up an alert for your favourite journal and you'll be notified when the latest issue is available electronically. For help with this, see our Search Alert guide.

Selected Journals & Magazines

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• Adolescence - R,O
• American Journal of Psychiatry - L,R,S,O
• American Journal of Psychology - R
• American Psychologist - L,S,O
• Behavior Therapy - L
• Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology - S,O
• Canadian Psychology - S,O
• Child Development - S,O
• Developmental Psychology - S,O
• Health Psychology - S,O
• Journal of Abnormal Psychology - R,S,O
• Journal of Applied Psychology - S,O
• Journal of Personality - S,O
• Journal of Social Psychology - R,O
• Memory and Cognition - R,O
• Psychology and Aging - S,O

Important Print Resources (selected)

• Mastering APA style: student's workbook and training guide BF 76.8 G452 2002
• DSM - IV-TR Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (American Psychological Association) WM 15 A48 Gen Coll and Ref
• Dictionary of psychology
  BF 31 C653 2001 and ONLINE
• Encyclopedia of psychology
  BF 31 E524 2000
• Fundamental neuroscience WL 102 F862 2008
• Handbook of psychology
  BF 121 H1955 2003
• Library use: handbook for psychology
  BF 76.8 R43 2003
• Concise Rules of APA Style
  BF 76.7 C66 2010
• International encyclopedia of the social sciences
  H 40 A2 I5

Selected Online Reference Tools

• Dictionary of Psychology
• Internet Mental Health
• Oxford Reference Online
• Oxford Companion to the Mind
  

Subject Headings

You can find more books through our Library Catalogue by searching under the following subject headings:

• Child Psychology
• Cognition
• Depression, Mental
• Deviant Behavior
• Dreams
• Human Engineering
• Neurosciences
• Perception
• Psychoanalysis
• Sex Role
• Subconscious
• Stress (Psychology)

Call Numbers

If you don't have a particular book in mind, then try browsing our collections using the following call numbers:

BF: Psychology
BF 173 - 175.5: Psychoanalysis
HM 251: Social Psychology
HQ: Family, Marriage, Women
HQ 1206: Psychology of Women
TA: Human engineering
WL: Neurosciences
WM: Psychiatry
WM 100: Abnormal Psychology

Psychology Gateways

• Classics in the History of Psychology
• Encyclopedia of Psychology
• Forensic Psychology
• History of Psychology
• Psycline
• National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• Personality Project
• Psychology Virtual Library
• PsychScholar
• Psychwatch.com
• PsychWeb
• Social Psychology Network

• American Psychological Association
• Association for Psychological Science
• Association for Humanistic Psychology
• British Columbia Psychological Association
• Canadian Psychological Association
• College of Psychologists for British Columbia
• Kwantlen Psychology Society
• Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Society for Neuroscience

• Mental Measurements Yearbook
• Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences - Compilations
• ETS Test Collection
• Finding Information About Psychological Tests (APA)

• APA - American Psychological Assoc. guidelines
• MLA - Modern Language Assoc. standards
• Other Citation Styles
• DOI - Digital Object Identifier