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Psychology of Contemporary Social Issues: Selected Resources

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Reference Resources

Dictionaries 
Subject words: psychology dictionaries

Dictionary of psychology.. Raymond J Corsini. Philadelphia, PA : Brunner/Mazel, c1999.

Location: REFRM BF31 .C72 1999

Dictionary of theories, laws, and concepts in psychology. Jon E. Roeckelein. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998.

Location: REFRM BF31 .R625 1998

Directories
Subject words: psychology directories

APA membership register / American Psychological Association.

Location: REFRM BF30 .A49 2000

The IUPsyS directory : major research institutes and departments of psychology. Hove [England] ; Hillsdale [N.J.] : Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993- International directory of psychologists, exclusive of the U.S.A

Location: REFRM BF30 .I52 1993

Encyclopedias & Other Resources   

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Psychology

Location: REFRM HM251 .B476 1995

The CQ researcher

Location: REFRM H35 .C67

Location: Internet

Encyclopedia of Psychology

Location: REFRM BF31 E52 2000 8 v.

Encyclopedia of Human Behavior

Location: REFRM BF31 .E5 1994 4 v.

Encyclopedia of Social Issues

Location: REFRM HN57 .E59 1997 6 v.

Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace & Conflict

Location: REFRM HM886 .E53 1999 3 v.

Encyclopedia of Modern American Social Issues

Location: REFRM HN57 .K73 1997

Find Books:
Check the Library Catalog

Subjects:

Social problems Motivation

Social psychology Social psychology -- Periodicals. Community psychology -- Periodicals. Interpersonal relations -- Periodicals.

Journal titles:

American journal of community psychology FLOOR4 PER RA1 .A47 Currently received.1- 1973-

Journal of community & applied social psychology (Online) Access restricted to CSUN IP address. (1996: abstracts only; 1997- Full text; plus upcoming issues not yet in print)

Organizations:

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues.

American Psychological Association. Division of Community Psychology.

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-

Writing Guides

How to Write Psychology Papers

Location: REFRM BF76.5 .P27 1999

Psychologist’s Companion : a guide to scientific writing for students and researchers

Location: REFRM BF76.8 .S73 1993)

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association

Location: REFRM BF 76.5 A54 1994 (2000 edition on order)

Research methodology books (Psychology -- Research – Methodology) BF713.-

Writing papers in Psychology

BF 76.7 R67 2001

Internet Resources

Government Publications on Social Issues	http://library.csun.edu/mfinley/issuedoc.html
Demographic sources	Facts and Figures