Research and Course Guides: PSYC 422 History of Psychology in Context (Prof Johnson): Books and Book Reviews

James McKeen Cattell

James McKeen Catell, a founding member of the APA

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Access ebooks and scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, sciences, and the social sciences. Journal content is often not available until 1+ years after publication.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Start here when you need to find research in psychology. Which areas of psychology? Just about all of them. PsycINFO covers mental health, counseling, cognitive science, neuroscience, education, learning, family studies and language. Provides full-text access (back to the first issue) of the journals published by the American Psychological Association, as well as other association journals and many books and book chapters.

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LibrarySearch
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Google Books
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Project Gutenburg
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Psychology's Feminist Voices
The Resources section of this site provides a bibliography of works related to the history of women in psychology.
Internet Archives
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Background Sources

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Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
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Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
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Articles, journals, and books published by Wiley across a variety of disciplines.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
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Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new window
Is a collection of more than 350 full text books published by Cambridge University Press. Subjects range widely across the humanities. It includes major works such as The Cambridge Ancient History, American history, British history, Economic history, General history, History of science, History of the book, Language and linguistics, Literary studies, Music, Philosophy, Political and social theory, Regional history, Religious studies, and more.

Encyclopedia of Psychology

This resource, published by the American Psychological Association and Oxford University Press, is the basic set for the field. Articles are written by authorities in the field and include extensive bibliographies. This is also available in print in the OSF Library Reference collection. The title link is for Volume #1. Search in PsycBOOKS for the entire set and/or specific articles.
     Volume 1 : A-B
     Volume 2 : C-Determinants
     Volume 3 : Developmental-Goodenough
     Volume 4 : Government-Learned
     Volume 5 : Learning-Oppositional
     Volume 6 : Optimism-Rapaport
     Volume 7 : Rape-S
     Volume 8 : T-Z