Library Guides: PSYCH 292: Introduction to the Profession of Psychology: Find Books

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eBook collections

For more, consult the Finding eBooks at Berkeley guide.

The Library offers over 100 e-book and e-text collections in specific subject areas.

AccessMedicine (Neurology Collection)
APA e-book collection (from the American Psychological Association)
ebrary (tens of thousands of full text ebooks)
MIT CogNet (ebooks in brain and cognitive sciences)
Oxford Clinical Psychology (over 300 titles in Oxford's global clinical psychology publishing program)
Oxford Scholarship Online: Neuroscience and Psychology
Project MUSE (ebooks from major university presses)
SpringerLink (ebooks in a wide range of academic disciplines including psychology)
Wiley Online Library (ebooks in many subjects including psychology and social & behavioral sciences, from 2011)

Reference

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Annual Reviews of Psychology, Neuroscience, etc.

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2nd edition)
MIT CogNet Reference Books
Handbook of Psychology
Corsini Enclyclopedia of Psychology
DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) Note: DSM IV also available.
Annual Review of Neuroscience, Annual Review of Psychology and Annual Review of Clinical Psychology are good starting places -- they provide literature reviews of important and emerging areas of research.

Writing and Research Methods

APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology

Vol. 1: Foundations, planning, measures and psychometrics
Vol. 2: Research designs: quantitative, qualitative, neuropsychological and biological
Vol. 3: Data analysis and research publication

Sage Research Methods
SAGE Research Methods is the essential online resource for anyone doing research or learning how to do research. With more than 800 books, reference works, and journal articles from SAGE’s world-renowned research methods list, SAGE Research Methods provides information on writing a research question, conducting a literature review, choosing a research method, collecting and analyzing data, and writing up the findings.

SAGE Research Methods’ coverage spans the full range of research methods used in the social and behavioral sciences, plus a wide range of methods commonly used in science, technology, medicine, and the humanities.