Quick Access to a Psychology Dictionary

Not everyone has the ultimate psychology book collection on their shelves at home. When you need a psychology dictionary, you may want to check out the psychology dictionaries available in ebrary.
If you select the Advanced search tab and choose to search the phrase psychology dictionary as a title search, you will get the following results.

-Dictionary of Biological Psychology
-Concise Dictionary of Psychology
-Dictionary of Theories, Laws & Concepts in Psychology
-Historical Dictionary of Quotations in Cognitive Science : A Treasury of Quotations in Psychology, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence

Each of these sources is full text and you can copy and paste into a Word document. Just highlight the text and an options list will pop up. Once you paste it in a document or email, the citation information is provided automatically with the pasted text.
You can find other dictionaries in ebrary by just leaving out the "psychology" part of the instructions above. Or try searching on your topic in ebrary. ebrary provides full text access to 25,000 academic titles in a great variety of subjects.
If you have never used ebrary before, it is located on the Access Online Databases page and you will need to download and install the ebrary reader (browser plugin) to get access to the full text. If you have questions or need help, just ask us.

Psychosomatic Medicine Journal Online

The publishers of Psychosomatic Medicine journal have put together a useful Web archive of journal issues, complete with article searching and issues with full text articles (1939 to current).
Although the subject searching is much more limited than that available in library databases, the site has organized subject collections that may be of use.

When to Search the Internet

In library research, we usually suggest using library databases for high-quality and appropriate content, capacity for precise searching, and more full text results.
However, there are times and situations where the Internet is a great place to search. Try searching the Internet when you are searching for:
-Statistics
-Government agency information and research
-Information on a scholarly author (curriculum vitae or contact information)
-Inspiration for your topic (try a thesaurus for term ideas or look for a bibliography on your topic)
-Supplementary information on your topic
-Quotations (http://www.bartleby.com)
-Book location in the area(beyond ITP Library-try Worldcat.org)
-Information on test publishers
Remember, information from the Internet will take closer examination and evaluation than resources from a library database.
If you have questions about when and how to use the Internet in your research, just talk to Lucy or Katrina.