duPont Library: Psychology 251: Research Methods and Data Analysis: Getting Started

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This subject guide is a gathering of resources for the study of psychology research methods and data analysis. If you would like something added or need help using some of the resources, please contact me.

Search APA PsycINFO

Psychology Databases from EBSCO

APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
PsycInfo is the American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. It is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.Citations and abstracts only but linked to PsycArticles.
Search interface: EBSCOHost.
APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
A collection of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed, scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research with articles from 66 journals, published from 1887 to present.
The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals published by the APA, its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. PsycArticles is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. Search interface: EBSCOHost.
APA PsycTests This link opens in a new window
PsycTests®, 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.
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.
APA PsycBooks This link opens in a new window
APA PsycBooks® from the American Psychological Association (APA), includes chapters in PDF from books published by the APA and other distinguished publishers, and includes digitized content of historical significance from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection. It also contains classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s, and the exclusive electronic release of authored entries from APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

SPSS Access in the Library

SPSS software is available on computers in the following areas of duPont Library:

ATC Lab on the ground floor
Learning Commons on the first floor
PC Classroom on the ground floor (G10)
Mac Classroom on the ground floor (G31)

Credo Reference Search Box

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 3,000,000 reference entries on topics from all the major
academic subject areas serving as a great starting point for research. Full text articles plus images, audio files, and videos. Credo Reference also includes cross-references to other full text titles containing related information.
Includes more than 450 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, and atlases in all fields. Sources are selected from 100 major publishers, such as ABC Clio, Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Greenwood, Penguin, Routledge, Sage, Thames and Hudson, Wiley, and more.

Online Reference Collections

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
A growing collection of significant subject-specific encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference sources.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Contains nearly 200 fully-indexed, cross-searchable reference works published by Oxford University Press.
We have the Premium Collection and the Western Civilization Collection.

Other Helpful Skills

Polish some of the research skills that will be necessary for research, writing, and presentation across multiple academic disciplines.

Additional Research Skills

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Psychology 251: Research Methods and Data Analysis

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