Contents: | Catalogs and Finding Tools for Books | Full-Text Collections | Encyclopedias | Dictionaries | Biographical Sources | Reviews |
Catalogs and Finding Tools for Books
University of Chicago Library Catalog
RLG
Union Catalog (RLIN)
WorldCat
Full-Text Collections
CogNet
This is a growing collection of searchable electronic texts in the field of cognitive
and brain sciences. The website that was first designed to accompany the MIT
Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (BF311.M556 1999; copies in Regenstein
4th floor reading room, Crerar Reference and Regenstein stacks). The CogNet library
now contains work from both from the MIT Press, as well as links to resources
from other publishers, professional associations, institutions, and individuals.
More than 400 books and over 30 journal titles are available full-text. Cognet
has other features as well, ranging from news, conference announcements, and awards
to the ability to initiate or participate in seminars, discussions and commentaries.
Also offered is a section on graduate studies. The UofC Library's license permits
affiliated individuals to establish a personal profile on Cognet.
PsycBOOKS
PsycBooks is a full-text database (.pdf) of more than 700 scholarly books and
12,200 chapters of books published by the American Psychological Association
(APA). It also includes the texts of a selection of classic books from additional
publishers, some dating to the 19th century. It is the only source for the electronic
version of the 8-volume Encyclopedia of Psychology, co-published by APA
and Oxford University Press in 2000 (print copies in Regenstein, Reference Collections
on the 1st and 4th floors). The intent is to eventually include all APA-published
scholarly titles since 1953, as well as additional classic works. The database
is updated monthly with addtional titles, both recent works and archival ones.
There is approximately an 18-month embargo on the texts of newly-published titles.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
In addition to providing browsable and searchable full-text of the encyclopaedia,
the site also offers dictionaries, an atlas, learning aids for children and
more.
Encyclopedia of life sciences. New York :
Nature Publishing Group, 2002. 20 vols.
Print copy: QH302.5.E56 2002 Crerar Reference
Encyclopedia of Psychology
Created and maintained by the Department of Psychology, Jacksonville State University,
this is a searchable, hierarchical directory of annotated links to web content
in the following categories: Career; Environment Behavior Relationships; Organizations
and Institutions of Psychology; Paradigms and Theories; People and History;
Publications and Documents; and Underlying Reductionistic Machinery. The site
also hosts the Society for the Quantitative
Analyses of Behavior and the Theory
Into Practice Database (TIP) that contains brief summaries of 50 major theories
of learning and instruction.
Handbook
of Psychology
Irving B. Weiner, editor-in-chief. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2003. 12 volumes.
Print copy: BF121.H1955 2003 Regenstein, Reading Room, Floor 4.
International
encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences
Edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. New York : Elsevier Science, 2001.
26 vols.
Print copy: H41.I58 2001 Reading Rm, floor 1 Regenstein; D'Angelo Law, Reference
Stevens
Handbook of Experimental Psychology
Editor-in-chief, Hal Pashler. 3rd ed. New York : John Wiley & Sons, c2002.
4 vols.
Contents: v. 1. Sensation and perception -- v. 2. Memory and cognitive processes
-- v. 3. Learning, motivation, and emotion -- v. 4. Methodology in experimental
psychology.
Print copy: BF181 .H336 2001 Regenstein Stacks
Xipolis--German Reference Database
This database consists of 18 standard reference tools--encyclopedias and dictionaries--in
the German language. It includes such titles as the Brockhaus Enzyklopaedia
and Das Lexikon Der Psychologie (Aa-Ly).
Xreferplus--Digital Reference
Library
More than 100 searchable and browsable full-text reference books comprise this
database. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical sources, quotations,
and factbooks on a wide range of general subjects.
Dictionaries and Thesauri
American Heritage Dictionary of the English
Language
This is the searchable online version of the fourth edition, 2000. "Over 90,000
entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations,
900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes."
From Bartleby.com.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Cambridge University Press publishes a number of dictionaries inteded to assist
in the learning of English. This site provides a free search facility into a
variety of its dictionaries.
Dictionary
of Psychology
from Oxford Reference Online. Corresponds to Dictionary of psychology
/ Andrew Colman. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. ( BF31 .C65
2001 Reading Rooms 1 and 4, Regenstein Library; SSA Library Reference).
Lexikon der Psychologie, based upon the CD-Rom published by Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 2001. Is one of the 18 sources included in the Xipolis database of German reference tools.
Oxford Reference Online
More than 20 dictionaries and reference handbooks are available covering topics
that range from computing to performing arts. It is possible to search a single
title, such as the Dictionary
of Psychology, or selected ones, or across the entire database.
Thesaurus of psychological index terms. 10th ed. Washington,
D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2005.
Z695.1.P7 T48 2005 Reference Collection, Floor 4 Regenstein
Note: This thesaurus is the list of subject headings used in the PsycINFO database,
produced by the American Psychological Assn. It is one of the online Tools when
searching PsycINFO.
Biographical Sources
Note: The Library owns many biographical works about individual psychologists; these are not listed here. Also note that many of the encyclopedias and dictionaries include entries for persons.
Encylopedia of
Psychology: People and History
This searchable directory of annotated links to websites is maintained by the
Department of Psychology, Jacksonville State University. Entries are included
for websites devoted to individuals, groups, and schools of thought.
Today in the History of Psychology
This database is a collection of dates and brief descriptions of more than 3100
events in the history of psychology which was first published in book form as
Street, W. R. (1994). A chronology of noteworthy events in American psychology.
Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. (Reading Rm, floor 4 Regenstein
BF108.U5S770 1994). More than 300 entries have been added to the database since
publication of the book and some others have been modified.
General Biographical Sources--The Library subscribes to several services covering multiple subject areas.
American National Biography
Published under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, this
is the premier scholarly biographical reference on people from all eras who
have influenced and shaped American history and culture. You'll find profiles
of more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life, from the
well-known to the infamous to the obscure. Entries are signed and include bibliographies.
The print edition* was published in 24 volumes in 1999, but the online source
is updated quarterly "with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions
of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency."
*American national biography / general editors, John A. Garraty,
Mark C. Carnes. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999. 24 v. (E176.D58 1999
Reading Rm, floors 1 and 3 Regenstein; D'Angelo Law, Reference)
African
American Biographical Database
This database was initiated by providing the texts of the titles listed in Chadwyck-Healey's
Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950, although the database
continues to expand with newly published biographical dictionaries, narratives,
and so forth. The collection includes "narratives of African American activists,
business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians,
writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers,
athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and
the everyday person." A list
of the sources included in the database is available.
"Biography
resources: Finding information on the famous, infamous, and obscure"
This guide to freely available web-based sources is the full text of an article
by Susan A. Schreiner and Michael A. Somers that was published in the January
2002 issue of College and Research Library News.
Biography and
Genealogy Master Index (BGMI)
This is an index to the contents of hundreds of biographical sources.
Contemporary
Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers
Begun in 1962 and issued in several print series (located in Regenstein's 1st
floor Reading Room), this source covers authors of books in all subject areas,
not only literary figures, but primarily English-language authors. Sketches
give personal facts, career, work in progress, bibliography of writings, and
biographical sources.
Who's
Who in the Twentieth Century
(Oxford University Press: Oxford Reference Online)
This reference title includes 2,000 short entries on men and women from different
countries and cultures who have contributed to the thought as well as the action
of the twentieth century. The entries are browsable and full-text searchable.
So, for instance, a search for psycholog* retrieves entries for 47 people. First
published 1985 as The Longman Dictionary of 20th Century Biography.
Revised Edition published 1992 by Oxford University Press as A Dictionary
of Twentieth-Century World Biography (Reading Rm, floor 1 Regenstein
CT120.D530 1992) . The web version corresponds to the abridged and updated edition
of the same title, Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, published
as an Oxford University Press paperback in 1999 (Reading Rm, floor 1 Regenstein
CT103 .W46 1999).
World Biographical Index
This is a partial index to huge sets of microfiche editions of major biographical
dictionaries from all parts of the world covering all time periods up to the
recent past. For an in-depth description of these reference sources, please
consult the webpage Biographical
Archives, prepared by the Social Sciences bibliographer Frank Conaway.
Reviews
PsycCRITIQUES via APA PsycNET
The database replaces the print journal Contemporary Psychology:
Z7203.C77 Regenstein 4th Floor Reference Collection, Library has 1956-2004.
Annual Review of Psychology
Reviews of significant developments in psychology.
Also in print: BF1.A6 Regenstein Bookstacks.
Choice Reviews Online
Choice is a monthly publication of the Association of College
and Research Libraries (ACRL) that includes reviews of academic books and electronic
resources in all subject areas. It also includes features such as bibliographic
essays and lists of award-winning titles. Recent issues of the print copy locate
in Regenstein Reading Room 2nd floor and bound volumes are in the bookstacks
at Z1035.C54.