Psychology
Library Subscription Services
Current PVCC students, faculty and staff have access through computers both on and off campus.
APA PsycNET contains citations, abstracts and full-text, scholarly journal articles and books about psychology and behavioral science.
EBSCO (for mobile devices) provides citations and abstracts or the full text of articles.
First Search has databases that can be searched for citations to journals and books.
CWI Contemporary Women's Issues provides a global perspective on critical issues and events that affect women.
High Wire Press has 11 scientific journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry, with full text available online. In addition, High Wire Press has free links to many other full-text journals. Search by category.
Science in Context provides abstracts or the full text of scholarly journal articles as well as reference and multimedia material.
Annual Reviews provides systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in science and social science through critical authoritative reviews.
Wiley Online Library provides access to full-text articles.
Reference Works
Encyclopedia Britannica offers extensive entries on a variety of topics as well as access to journal articles, multimedia and ebooks
Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology covers the entire spectrum of psychology, including notable people, theories and terms, landmark case studies and experiments, applications of psychology in advertising, medicine and sports and career information.
Local Web Sites of Interest
UVa Department of Psychology
UVa Biology/Psychology Library
Other Internet Resources
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association Journals
Mental HelpNet
APA Documentation is a citation guide for PVCC student research papers and reports.
