- Psychology Research Guide [Calder Library]
- Univserity of Miami Psychology Department

Welcome to Richter Library's Resources Guide for Psychology! This guide is a great tool for finding information for research, collecting articles for classes, and broadening your knowledge of Psychology. Each tab contains current and relevent resources for assisting you in collecting the best information for your project, interest, or research.

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ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
Supplies educational literature and resources from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.
Comprehensive for international literature of biomedicine including clinical practice, psychosocial issues, health care administration, medical research, nursing, and more.
Oxford Clinical Psychology
Provides a variety of clinical psychology publications types for numerous specialty areas, disorders, and treatment modalities. To learn how to navigate effectively, take the short online tour.
PsycARTICLES
a source for full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.
PsycINFO
Premier source for behavioral science and mental health. From the American Psychological Association.
PubMed - US National Library of Medicine, NIH
Provides access to citations and many full text of biomedical articles from Medline and life science journals.
SAGE Research Methods
Designed to guide users through every step of the research process. Provides information from observational to experimental studies, data, data analysis, etc.. The related databases are Sage Cases1 and Datasets1.
Web of Science
An online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service that provides a comprehensive citation search that gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research.
This is a clinical search engine that supports clinical decisions and provides health information including mental health.
Psychiatry Online
Serves not only psychiatrists, this resourse is also psychologists and other mental health professionals. It provides the DSM Library, including the DSM-5 and DSM-5 Handbook of Differential Diagnosis.

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Provides access to over 100,000 academic titles across many disciplines. Books may be viewed online using the ebrary reader. Many titles are also available to download for reading offline. Users will be prompted to create / log in to their own ebrary account to access the download functionality. Windows and Mac users will use Adobe Digital Editions to view the downloaded titles. iPad users will use the Bluefire Reader app to view the downloaded titles.
National Academy Press Digital Library
The National Academy Press is a searchable multidisciplinary digital library of full-text book length research studies and policy reports by leading experts in their fields. Hundreds of titles are available in PDF or HTML format. Readers are able to search the full-text of one or all publications; search all titles; browse by subject category.
The DSM-5 is a manual published by the American Psychiatric Association and covers all mental health disorders for both children and adults. The DSM-5 also lists known causes of these disorders, statistics in terms of gender, age at onset, and prognosis as well as some research concerning the optimal treatment approaches. The University of Miami Libraries provides multiple sources of access to this resource.
The DSM-5 is available through Psychiatry Online
Click here to obtain a list of DSM-5 Related Books
Full-text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology. Includes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books from 1956 through 2017

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Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Offers evaluation and measurement tools used in health and psychosocial studies.
PsycINFO
Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, in behavioral science and mental health.From the American Psychological Association.
- The Wiley Handbook of Personality Assessment
- The Handbook of Multilevel Theory, Measurement, and Analysis
- The Wiley Handbook of Obsessive Compulsive Disorders
- Mental Measurements Yearbook (2017 print edition)
- Call Number: LB3051 .M48
Provides a lengthy list of commercial tests.
ETS Test Link
Follow the instructions on the Advanced Search screen to Search for a Downloadable Test
NIH Toolbox
Set of brief measures - many freely available in full text - for assessing cognitive, emotional, motor and sensory function from ages 3 to 85.
Psychological Tests
Offers links to many organizations, websites, and tools that provide access to tests; information about tests; and other resources.
Testing and Assessment
An older website with links to many different psychological tests.
York University Psychology Resource Center
This Center offers an extensive collection of measurement resources. Use the tabs to explore it.

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- Nursing & Health Studies, Biology, and Psychology Librarian
- sxm1838@miami.edu
- (305) 284-2040
Tutorials for searching for & evaluating tests, measures University of British Columbia
Formerly Digital Dissertations Online: A listing of doctoral dissertations in all subject areas completed at U. S. accredited institutions, with some Master's theses and foreign dissertations.
Proquest: Dissertations & Theses @ University of Miami
Proquest provides access to the dissertations and theses produced by students at the University of Miami.
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
Contains full-text theses and dissertations from colleges and universities around the world. The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic analogues to the traditional paper-based theses and dissertations.
Scholarship @ Miami
"The University of Miami Graduate School Collection contains over 4000 dissertations and theses created between 1961 and the present. The Graduate School supports masters-level and doctoral programs on the Coral Gables campus, at the Miller School of Medicine, and at the Rosenstiel School of Marine ant Atmospheric Science."

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- Nursing & Health Studies, Biology, and Psychology Librarian
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According to the American Psychological Association, evidence based practice (EBP) in Psychology is:
The APA's Policy Statement on Evidence Based Practice in Psychology (EBPP) further elaborates that:
(APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice. (2006). Evidence-based practice in psychology. American Psychologist, 61, 271-285.)
American Psychiatric Association Guidelines
Society of Clinil Psychology
LOCATING SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS
Cochrane Library
PsycINFO
Medline
PubMed
RESOURCES
Eviendence-Based Psychotherapy: The state of the Science and Practice
Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology

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- APA Resources for Students
- Psych Web
- Psi Chi (National Honor Society for Psychology)
- Simply Pyschology

Saily Marrero
- Nursing & Health Studies, Biology, and Psychology Librarian
- sxm1838@miami.edu
- (305) 284-2040