Tuesday, October 25, 2005

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.