The Library offers a variety of Instructional Services to familiarize students, faculty, and staff with library resources and research techniques.

This page links to a selection of tipsheets, tools and resources that offer assistance in acquiring library research skills. Links to tutorials for specific databases are included with the descriptions of electronic resources for psychology.

Tips Specifically for Psychology

Guidebooks for Psychology
This is a listing of some selected titles in the University of Chicago Library that provide basic information about research methodologies for psychology. The list also includes a few titles about studying psychology and about library research in psychology.

Citation and Style Guides for Psychology
This is a page that includes print and electronic titles useful for psychology authors, including directories of periodicals and publications giving advice about dissertations.

Internet Psychologist
This excellent tutorial covers searching the web, critically evaluating resources, and identifying various types of information that can be found. The tutorial is offered by the Social Sciences Information Gateway (SOSIG) of the United Kingdom Resource Discovery Network

General Tips

Most of the following resources are focused on the research process and information searching in general rather than on psychology research in particular. However, the information presented in these guides is applicable across disciplines.

The Library Research Process: An Overview
Jane McKeever prepared this brief outline of the library research process for use in instructional situations.

Library Research Worksheet
This was developed for use in an instructional session with graduate students to assist them in focusing on what they already knew about their topic and to identify the next step in information research.

Library Research Guides and Tutorials
This is a collection of links to selected websites that provide assistance with various aspects of the library research process.