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PsycINFOAn index to psychology, behavior, personality, child development, family relations, homelessness, criminology and prisons Abstracts available with many links to full-text
Secondary - Educational Psychology is a social science, and as such, draws its literature from a variety of other databases. These secondary databases may be helpful for research.
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Sociological AbstractsIndexes 3000 periodicals related to sociology, social work and other social sciences Indexing from 1952 - present; abstracts from 1963 - present Cited References available for all journal articles Direct links to full-text articles available for hundreds of journals
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ERICERIC stands for Education Resource Information Center, and it is our major resource for research on education and related areas.
Specialized - these databases are related to educational psychology, but highly specialized.
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PsycTESTSPsycTESTS®, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), serves as a repository for a growing selection of psychological tests and measures, including thousands of actual test instruments and test items that are available for immediate download and use in research and teaching. International in scope, PsycTESTS® also provides access to an increasing number of tests that are available in languages other than English. PsycTESTS® is an authoritative source of structured information about tests of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. While focused on contemporary instances of test use, coverage spans more than a century.
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PILOTSThe PILOTS bibliographic database covers the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress. It includes citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage.
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Mental Measurements YearbookThe Mental Measurements Yearbook is a guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments, areas covereed: psychology, education, business, and leadership. Each entry contains descriptive information and edited review(s). Tests must be commercially available, be published in the English language, and be new or revised since it last appeared in the series.
Multidisciplinary - General subject coverage databases
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JSTORJSTOR is full-text journals, many in the social sciences. JSTOR covers many education and health journals, as well as many social science and science journals.
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Proquest Research LibraryProquest is a multidisciplinary database covering magazines, journals and newspapers. Coverage begins in 1986. You'll find far better research in the social science databases listed elsewhere on this page, but you might find some more popular periodical titles here. Make sure to select 'Scholarly Journals' when you are searching.
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Academic Search PremierAcademic Search Premier is a general subject index, similar to Proquest. It does not specialize in any given discipline, it attempts to cover them all.
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Google ScholarSearch Google's database of scholarly resources. Links to OSU full-text where available.
OSU Library
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BOSS (Big Orange Search System)The OSU Stillwater Library, the Edmon Low Library, has a collection of over three million books. To identify a book, use BOSS.
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APA E-CollectionFull-text scholarly and professional books published by the American Psychological Association, OSU’s collection covers book published from 2010 through 2014
Books Available Elsewhere
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WorldCatOver 36 million records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes citations of manuscripts written as early as the 11th century. Updated daily.
EndNote - free bibliographic management software that you can use to save citations into a database of references that you can insert into your research papers.
RefME
RefME is a free, easy to use, online tool built to help undergraduates create, save, and share citations and build great works-cited lists and bibliographies
Style Sheet
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by
Call Number: 808.02 P976 2010ISBN: 1433805596Publication Date: 2009-07-15In addition to providing guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APA style, this manual offers an authoritative reference and citation system. It also covers the treatment of numbers, statistical and mathematical data, tables and figures.
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