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Books

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APA Citation

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association
Call Number: REF BF76.7 .P83 2020

Publication Date: 2019

Authoritative manual of APA citations, formatting, and publication. Lamson has 3 print copies located on the lower level, at the reference desk, and in the reference collection.

APA Example paper - student paper
Student paper in APA 7th ed format (PDF)
APA Example Paper - professional paper
Example APA paper for professional submission to journal (PDF)

Reference Resources

Mental Measurements Yearbook w/ Tests in Print
Comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.

Measures for Clinical Practice and Research by Kevin Corcoran (Editor); Joel Fischer (Editor)
Call Number: REF BF176 .C66 2013

Publication Date: 2013
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by American Psychiatric Association
Call Number: REF RC455.2.C4 A48 2022

Publication Date: 2022

Gale Ebooks
Online reference books, including encyclopedias and other publications spanning most subject areas.

Finding Tests in Lamson
The Library maintains a collection of over 385 standardized tests that are available on Reserve. This document explains how to find them.
Please note, not all of them focus on psychology.

Find Journal Articles

APA PsycInfo
Contains abstracts and summaries of over 5 million peer-reviewed psychology journal articles and other records. Full text of articles can be requested via Interlibrary Loan.
APA PsycArticles
Invaluable psychology resource containing full text of 110+ journals published by the APA and other psychological organizations.
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is a good, all-purpose database made by EBSCO. It is very large (over 3 million articles) and covers nearly all subject areas. It is always a good place to start your search. It has a mix of scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Sociology database with full text for 860 journals in addition to over 800 books and thousands of conference papers.
Psychotherapy.net
This database is made up entirely of video content. There are 50 videos accessible within Psychotherapy.net many of which include video of therapy sessions.
ERIC
If you have a topic relating to education at any level, children, or adolescents, ERIC is a great place to look. This EBSCO database is very large and includes journal articles as well as other document types.
JSTOR
Full text access to about 800 core journals spanning most subject areas. Specializes in recent, but not newest issues. For the latest issues, see Project MUSE.

Counseling Journals
Couples & Family Therapy Journals

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Theses & Dissertations

ProQuest Dissertation Abstracts Online
This database contains citations and abstracts for over 2 million dissertations.

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In most cases, you can read the first 25 pages of a dissertation. The "Order a Copy" option does not link to the PSU Interlibrary Loan System. To request a full dissertation go to the Interlibrary Loan Page and fill out a request form.
Search Theses & Dissertation (Lamson)
Searches the Lamson catalog via WorldCat for theses and dissertations.
Summit Institutional Repository @ PSU
Search over 240 digital theses and dissertations by PSU sudents.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations
Search theses and dissertations that are freely available online from over 800 colleges and universities.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
Full text collection of over 800,000 dissertations from many disciplines.

Access Library Sources

Can't find the full text?

If you've found a great article or book in a database, our catalog, or cited in another source, but you can't seem to find the full text, try the methods below.

Find the Journal

If you have a citation to an article, choose Journals and type the journal title into the library catalog to find out what years of the journal are available at PSU.

Find it in Google Scholar

If you have the citation to an article, search by the title in Google Scholar. Links to full text from PSU or on the Internet will appear to the right side of the results list.

Get it via InterLibrary Loan (ILL)

If you need a book or article that PSU does not have, you can request it through InterLibrary Loan.

This service is free to all PSU students, faculty, and staff.

Go to the InterLibrary Loan Page.
Create Request and choose the material type you want, then fill out the request form.
Alternatively, If you find the source in the catalog, Request Item through Interlibrary Loan under "Access Options" on the right side.
Articles are delivered to your InterLibrary loan account in PDF format, usually in 2-5 business days.
Books are delivered to Lamson and can be picked up at the information desk in 1-2 weeks.

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