PSYCHOLOGY
Other Online Resources
Professional Associations
American Psychological Association (APA)
Contains information about the national professional organization, current events in psychology, parenting information, career and study leads, and a few full-text research summaries.
American Psychological Society
The American Psychological Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of scientific psychology and its representation at the national level. The Society's mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare. This site features a number of psychology-related links.
NC Psychology Association (NCPA)
Contains information about the state professional organization as well as consumer links.
Search Aids
PsychCrawler
This site indexes full-text articles found at APA, National Institutes of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information, and the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
PsycPortal.com
Provides news from the world of psychology including the current issue of APA Monitor on Psychology.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Psychology
This highly-recommended web page includes eight hierarchically-arranged topic areas linking to about 2,000 sites dealing with career, people and history in psychology, and resources, among others.
Style Manual
APA Style: APAStyle.org
This frequently-asked-questions page is not intended to replace the Publications Manual (not available online but available on reserve at Hackney Library's circulation desk), which contains in-depth style guidelines published by the American Psychological Association (APA). But it does offer answers to some common questions regarding use of the APA style. For guidelines on how to cite an NCLIVE article in APA style, see our Citing NCLIVE Articles page.
Social Psychology
Social Psychology Network
This portal is the largest social psychology database on the Internet with more than 12,000 links related to psychology.
Library Research Guides for Psychology
Research Guides used in Hackney Library orientations for Psychology courses suggest resources appropriate for completing assigned projects and papers.
Last updated November 15, 2005