Psychology

Support for Psychology

• Liaison Librarian : Jacqueline Boston (Wed-Fri)
• Email (preferred) : jacqueline.boston@uws.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)1292 886 265 (based at Ayr and Paisley Campuses)

Contact us if you would like advice on:

• finding information for your assignments
• choosing keywords and setting limits
• choosing resources to search
• assessing credibility of sources
• compiling a search strategy for a literature review
• reference management

Resources

Cambridge Core: access to a range of journals in the humanities, social sciences and medicine

Ingenta Connect: access to a range of scholarly publications

GALE InfoTrac Newsstand - full-text newspaper resource that provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts. 

PsycBOOKS: full text of chapters covering psychology and psychiatry from the American Psychiatric Association

PsycARTICLES: full text articles covering psychiatry and psychology

Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection: full text of journals covering psychology, psychiatry and counselling

SAGE Journals Online: full text journal articles in the arts and social sciences

ScienceDirect: full text journals and e-books on a range of subjects. Registration may be required, but is free

Social Care Online: UK’s largest database of information and research on all aspects of social care and social work

SocINDEX: contains resources for visual arts topics as well as broad range of arts generally

Taylor & Francis Journals: full text access to a wide number of journals and e-books in the arts and social sciences

Web of Science: journal article and e-book citation indexing service that also provides full text links to other databases

Wiley Online Library: full text articles covering social science and the arts (including broadcast production)