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Psychology Research Guide

Welcome

If you have any questions about locating, evaluating, incorporating, and citing sources, please feel free to ask a librarian.

Welcome to the research guide for Psychology at TLU!

1: Find background information in reference books

Reference books can provide background material and be a launching point for further research. You can search for e-reference items in Primo Discovery by finding the Source Types limiter in the sidebar and limiting to Reference Entries. 

2. Need books or ebooks? Search the Library Catalog

The Library Catalog is the gateway to finding books on psychology. Search the catalog for books about cognition, personality, or social psychology.

 

Advanced Search

​Blumberg Memorial Library arranges materials by the Library of Congress Classification System. Books on psychology generally fall into the following call numbers:

Psychology          BF
Psychiatry            RC 435-571

How to find a book

3. Need articles? Search the databases

Databases are large, searchable collections of articles, including scholarly articles. To see all of TLU's databases, visit the Blumberg Memorial Library Resources page and select either Databases by Subject or Databases by Title. The Databases by Subject pages also include links to recommended websites.

The key database for Psychology is PsycINFO:

All Psychology guides

--Finding a particular journal--

To see if a journal or magazine is available, either online or in print, look in the Publications by Title list.

--Interlibrary Loan--

Need an item that our library doesn't own? No worries, you can email the title, author and date of what you need to ill@tlu.edu or fill out a form. We can get most (but not all) articles within 2 days and many books within 4-8 days. 

For more information, visit our interlibrary loan page.

--Using databases off-campus--

If you are using an off-campus computer, you will be prompted for your last name (Not your network username but last name only) and your 8-digit TLU ID number.

For some databases, instead of being asked for your instead of your last name and ID number, you will be asked for your normal TLU network username and password (Microsoft 365 Single Sign-On).

--Evaluate and cite sources--