Psychology Guide: Getting Started
This guide will help you find the information you need to complete your assignments and research for psychology topics
InfoSkills Toolkit
InfoSkill Toolkit
Click on the image to start your JCU learning experience with an easy-to-use online, interactive learning resource that maps out researching, referencing and other assignment writing skills.
Your librarians
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Fran ClementsLiaison Librarian -
Janet CatterallLiaison Librarian -
Stephen AndersonSenior Liaison Librarian
Help for researchers
Key sources
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PsycINFO (ProQuest)PsycINFO is published by the American Psychological Associations and provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts of the international psychological literature.
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MEDLINE (Ovid)A bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care.
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ScopusThe largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings across all disciplines.
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Psychiatry OnlinePsychiatryOnline features DSM-5™ and The American Journal of Psychiatry plus access to journals, textbooks, self-assessment tools, clinical & research news from Psychiatric News, and medication information handouts for patients.
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PsycARTICLES (ProQuest)PsycARTICLES offers full text articles from the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.
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Comprehensive Clinical Psychology
This book encompasses the entire field clinical psychology and its subspecialities, including theory and clinical techniques.
Video Tutorials for Finding Articles
This tutorial produced by APA Publishing Training (2017), demonstrates how (and why) to use the thesaurus tool to find index terms or subject headings when searching PsycINFO on ProQuest.
Psychology in the news
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