Psychology Subject Guide

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E-Journals

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Associations

This guide provides print, electronic, and Internet sources of information that may be useful for researching psychology topics. Additional psychology-related guides are listed below. For guides to other subjects, see the Subject Guides page.

Books

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Use the UT Libraries Catalog to determine if we have a book, periodical, video, or other resource, its call number, and its location in the library. Click on the 'Find Items' link to determine if the item is available for check out.

Articles

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To identify articles on psychology and related topics, use one or more indexing and abstracting services. Some services also index dissertations, books and book chapters, conference papers, and/or association papers. Most of the UTK databases are restricted to use by faculty, staff, and students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Psychology and Social Sciences Databases

HAPI (Health & Psychosocial Instruments)

Assists in the identification of measurement and evaluation instruments found in the health and psychosocial literature.

Medline (via PubMed), 1966-

Provides international coverage of the literature of medicine.

Mental Measurements Yearbook, 1989-

Provides information about standardized tests that are included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbook (beginning with the 9th edition).

PsycARTICLES

Provides full-text of articles from 57 journals published by the American Psychological Association, Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. Most titles begin with volume 1.

PsycINFO, 1887-

Provides international coverage of the literature of psychology and related disciplines.

Social Sciences Abstracts, 1983-

An index to primary scholarly journals in the social sciences. For coverage prior to 1983, use the print version. Ref. AI3.S62.

Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science), 1956-

An index covering scholarly literature in the social sciences. Allows searching of cited references.

Other Psychology and Health Sciences databases.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier

Full-text collection of popular and scholarly periodicals.

Dissertation Abstracts, 1861-

Indexes dissertations and theses accepted at accredited institutions worldwide.

Document delivery is available to UT faculty, staff, and graduate students only.

E-Journals

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Electronic journals available from publishers or from a number of full-text databases are listed on our E-Journals page. Additional journals and publications are listed below.