PSYCHOLOGY 352: MOTIVATION

A CHECKLIST OF SELECTED LIBRARY SOURCES

  REFERENCE SOURCES:

• Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks
• The Dictionary of Psychology (Corsini) (REF BF31 .C72 1999)
• Encyclopedia of Psychology (REF BF31 E52)
• Encyclopedia of Human Behavior (REF BF31 E5 1994 4 v.)
• International Encyclopedia of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Neurology (REF RC334 I57)
• Library use : a Handbook for Psychology (REF BF76.8 .R43 1991)
• Longman Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry (BF31)
• Psychology : a Guide to Reference and Information Sources (REF BF121.B3 P79 1993)

Guides:

• How to Write Psychology Papers (REF BF76.5 .P27 1999)
• Psychologist’s Companion : a guide to scientific writing for students and researchers (REF BF76.8 .S73 1993)
• Publication Manual of the APA (REF BF 76.5 A54)

Find Articles:
Periodicals/Journals: Indexes & Articles

Psychological Abstracts/PsycInfo

Indexes books and 1,300 journals written in over 25 languages, spanning 1887 to the present

Location: REFRM Table 6 BF 1 . P65 and Online

Index Medicus

An index to 3,700 medical journals published by the National Library of Medicine covering: medicine, health administration, psychology, physical therapy, nursing, all allied health education.

Location: REFRM Table Z 660 .I42 and online: FirstSearch, and LexisNEXIS; and free Web access through PubMed

ERIC (Late 1960's-)

A database that indexes and abstracts 750 journal titles (EJ) and thousands of reports and documents (ED) in education.

Location: Online through CSA, FirstSearch and EricWizard

Sociological Abstracts

Provides indexing and detailed abstracts of articles taken from 3,000 journals published world wide in sociology, social work and related social and behavioral sciences. Indexing began in 1963, abstracts from 1974-

Social Sciences Index

An index to articles and book reviews in 400 English-language journals in anthropology, economics, geography, political science, psychology and sociology. Indexing started in 1983, abstracts from 1994-

Find Books:
Check the Library Catalog

• Classification: Motivation: BF 501-505 ; Emotions: BF531-538; Will: BF 608
• Subjects:

Motivation (Psychology)	Will
Specific:	Emotions
Goal (Psychology)	Specific:
Incentive (Psychology)	Anger
Motivation in education	Control (Psychology)
Motivation in sports	Emotion in infants

• Melvyl, WorldCat
• CSUN List of Periodicals, Serials and Newspapers

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