Psychology Guide: Getting Started
InfoSkills Road Trip
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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Janet Catterall
Liaison Librarian
Ground floor Library building
Cairns
(07) 4232 1544
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Stephen Anderson
Senior Liaison Librarian
Division of Tropical Health and Medicine
Ground floor Eddie Koiki Mabo Library
Townsville
Phone: (07) 4781 6997
Make an appointment with Stephen
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. -
MEDLINE (Ovid)
A bibliographic database of life sciences and biomedical information covering medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and health care. -
Scopus
The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed journals, books and conference proceedings across all disciplines. -
Psychiatry Online
PsychiatryOnline 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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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.
The following Sample PsycINFO Search on ProQuest tutorial shows how to combine keyword searches with the Thesaurus to conduct a search. Note the look and feel of the database may be different but the functionality is the same.
Psychology in the news
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