Psychology
Welcome to the Subject  Guide on Psychology

This guide will give you an introduction to finding information on Psychology. You can use it to:

  • locate books, eBooks and journal articles
  • search relevant online databases
  • connect to useful websites
  • reference properly and avoid plagiarism
All Items by Source

Audio Books

LibriVox
Free audio books of public domain books read by volunteers.

Data Management & Repositories

Registry of Research Data Repositories - re3data.org
The Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org) is a global registry, with more than 2,400 detailed data repository records, and is widely acknowledged as a tool for the identification of suitable repositories for research data.

DELNET - Developing Library Network

DELNET - Developing Library Network

Pondicherry University Library has subscribed to the Institutional Membership of DELNET (Developing Library Network), New Delhi. DELNET is a major resource-sharing library Network in India connecting more than 7300 institutions in 33 states in India and few other countries comprising of universities, colleges, R&D organizations, specialized institutions, etc.
DELNET also provides access to more than 3.6 crore catalogue records of books journals articles, etc. with the facility to borrow books on Inter Library Loan (ILL) and get copies of journal articles. For: more details on accessing DELNET resources please logon to https://delnet.in/ and click on "New Discovery Portal".
 

National Digital Library of India (NDLI)

Preprint Servers

CORE: Open Access for the Humanities
CORE is an open access repository for the humanities
PsyArXiv
A free preprint service for the psychological sciences.
SocArXiv
SocArXiv open archive of the social sciences, provides a free, non-profit, open-access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code.

Research Funding Agencies

Research Support Tools

Remote Login
Remote Login Access provides off campus access to all the subscribed e-resources of Ananda Rangapillai Library
Turnitin: Plagiarism Checker
Turnitin is an online software program that can detect similarities between an existing work and your submitted work.  When you submit a work to Turnitin, the proprietary software compares that work to Turnitin's database.
Similarities are instances when your words match words found in other works found in the Turnitin database

Scholarships and Fellowships

Search Engines

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
Internet Archive Scholar
This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive.

Table of Contents Services (TOC)

JournalToCs
This is a free Table of Contents service that provides access in one place to the most recent tables of contents for over 32,000 journals.

Webcasts

Library of Congress Webcasts
This resource from the Library of Congress includes webcasts on a multitude of topics: history, current events, education, literature, and more. The site allows you to browse collections by subject including the National Book Festival collection, see newly added webcasts and the most popular webcasts, and download both web- and podcasts.

Library OPAC

OPAC
The OPAC lists all of the books, thesis and CDs at the Ananda Rangapillai Library, Pondicherry University.
http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/opac.php

Databases

Academic Video Online (74,000 plus academic vidoes)
Academic Video Online is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary video subscription that supports the entire range of curriculum, from anthropology to zoology. It includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations. Patrons will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners. Academic institutions will find frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
note: https://proquest.libguides.com/academicvideoonline
EBSCO Academic Search Complete

EBSCO Academic Search Complete Is designed specifically for academic institutions, is the largest scholarly,  multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.


Grammarly Premium
Grammarly is an automated online writing support tool that does far more than just highlight grammar and spelling errors. The program offers contextual advice and suggestions for improving sentence structure, word choice, and style for all kinds of documents. It can even help prevent plagiarism by checking for unoriginal text against a database of over 8 billion web pages. The Ananda Rangapillai Library is pleased to offer Pondicherry University students, research scholars, faculty, and staff free access to the premium academic version of Grammarly, known as Grammarly@EDU.
For login assistance, contact: vijay.lib@pondiuni.edu.in
Indiastat
Comprehensive portal to economic, social, political, and related statistics about India. Over half-a-million pages of statistical data are presented in a user-friendly Web format.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global is a wealth of unique global scholarship, which is a credible and quality source to Uncover the Undiscovered research insights and intelligence in the easiest and most effective ways. The equitable discoverability of more than 5 million dissertations and theses with coverage from the year 1637, allows researchers to amplify diverse voices and place their research in a global context. The database offers nearly 3 million full texts for most of the dissertations added since 1997
note: https://proquest.libguides.com/PQDT
Scopus
Scopus uniquely combines a comprehensive, curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly content.

Quickly find relevant and trusted research, identify experts and access reliable data, metrics and analytical tools for confident research strategy decisions — all from one database and one subscription.

Scopus is a comprehensive, source-neutral abstract and citation database curated by independent subject matter experts. It places powerful discovery and analytics tools in the hands of researchers, librarians, institutional research managers and funders. Scopus powers better decision-making with curated, complete and connected data.


note: https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus
Web of Science
Indexes the world's leading peer reviewed journal literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and provides searching of cited references, from 2002-present.
note: LibGuide

Electronic Books

EBSCO eBook Academic Collection
EBSCO eBook Academic Collection provides access to a large selection of nearly 219,000 multidisciplinary ebook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter including titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, MIT Press, Harvard University Press and many others. Additional academic publishers include Elsevier Ltd.; Brill Academic Publishers; Taylor & Francis Ltd; Sage Publications, Ltd. and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Directory of Open Access Books
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
Oxford Textbooks (Very Short Introductions Online)
Very Short Introductions (VSI) is provided by Oxford University Press and offers concise introductions to a diverse range of subjects. All titles provide intelligent and serious introductions to a vast range of subjects, written by experts in the field who combine facts, analysis, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make challenging topics highly readable. Ananda Rangapillai Library currently subscribes to the following subjects, Art & Media, Health Science, History, Law, Literature, Management & Economics, Philosophy & Religion, Politics and Sociologywhich contains about 585 titles.
ScienceDirect - eBook Collections
The collection on Elsevier eBooks Collections includes 509 titles in the following subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering, Environmental Science, Immunology and Microbiology, Mathematics and Computing, Social Sciences, Environmental Science, Forensics.
note: http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/ebooks.php

Electronic Journals

Emerald Insight
Emerald publishes the world's widest range of management and library & information services journals, as well as a strong specialist range of engineering, applied science and technology journals. Emerald database allows instant access to the latest research and global thinking. It provides information, ideas and opportunity to gain insight into key management topics.
JSTOR
JSTOR archival journal collections are where scholars go to link past and present, forge new connections, and build on great ideas.
The collections feature the full-text articles of more than 2,600 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Journals span continents and languages, with titles from 1,200 publishers from 57 countries
note: https://guides.jstor.org/ Journal List: http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/journals.php?%20ss=%27UGC%27%20&%20cc=%27JSTOR%27
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) provides full-text access to more than 262 electronic journals in the field of life sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, medicine, social sciences, humanities and law with back files from 1996 onwards.
note: http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/journals.php?%20ss=%27UGC%27%20&%20cc=%27Oxford%20University%20Press%27
SAGE Management and Organization Studies Subject Collection
 SAGE Management & Organization Studies Collection offering key journals in a wide range of disciplines including Business Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, E-commerce, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality, Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management Education, Marketing, Non-profit Management and many more.
note: Journal List:http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/journals.php?ss=%27pu%27%20&%20cc=%27SAGE%20Management%20and%20Organization%20Studies%20Subject%20Collection%27
SAGE Research Methods Subject Collection
SAGE Research Methods Collection covering quantitative and qualitative methods for both the social sciences and STM, allowing researchers to keep pace with new trends in all facets of research methods.
 
HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Electronic access to the full text of 35 peer-reviewed journals
  • Over 32,000 articles
  • Journals are ranked in Journal Citation Reports (Source Clarivate, 2021)
  • Complimentary access back to year 1999 till date
Here is the User Guide to help you browse the SAGE Journals platform.

note: Journal List: http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/journals.php?ss=%27pu%27%20&%20cc=%27SAGE%20Research%20Methods%20Subject%20Collection%27
ScienceDirect (10 Subject Collections)
Access to Science Direct 10 subjects (1. Biochemistry, Genetics & Mol. Biology,2. Agriculture & Biological Science,3. Chemistry4. Computer Science,5. Economics,6. Immunology & Microbiology,7. Mathematics,8. Physics & Astronomy,9. Social Sciences,10. Psychology) collection (1000+journals titles ) with back-files since 1995.
note: https://elsevier.libguides.com/sciencedirect
Journal List: http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/journals.php?%20ss=%27PU%27%20&%20cc=%27Elsevier%27
Springer Link
Springer is the leading global scientific publisher, delivering quality content through innovative information products and services, as well as a trusted provider of local-language professional publications in Europe, especially in Germany and the Netherlands. It publishers high quality content in various formats like books, journals, newsletters, CD-ROMs, online platforms, protocols, databases and conferences.
Overall journals can be accessed through SpringerLink are around 1700+ journals. The backfiles / backdata is available since 1997 for Springer titles and 2007 onwards for Nature main title.
 
note: http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/journals.php?%20ss=%27UGC%27%20&%20cc=%27Springer%20Link%27
Taylor and Francis Journals
Taylor and Francis, founded in 1798, is the oldest commercial journals publisher in the world, and one of the leading global academic publishers. Informa interface is a new and expanding platform, initially hosting the academic and scientific publications. Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 1600 journals and around 1,800 new books each year Taylor and Francis provides quality information and knowledge that enable the customers and end-users to perform their jobs efficiently, continue their education, and help contribute to the advancement of their chosen profession. It is a widely known publisher among researchers, students, academics and increasingly professionals.
The Consortium can access more than 1000 journals with archival access to 1998 onwards issues. More details are available at https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/journals-access-under-eshodhsindhu-consortium/.
Wiley 908 Titles Collection
Wiley is one of the world's foremost academic and professional publishers and the largest society publisher. With a combined list of more than 1,400 scholarly peer-reviewed journals and an extensive collection of books with global appeal, this new business sets the standard for publishing in the life and physical sciences, medicine and allied health, engineering, humanities and social sciences.
Perpetual access: For Subscribed content
Backfile access: Complimentary, back to the Year 1997
note: http://lib.pondiuni.edu.in/journals.php?ss=%27pu%27%20&%20cc=%27Wiley%20Blackwell%27

Open Courseware

Carnegie Mellon Online Learning Initiative

Offers 27 free and open courses from Carnegie Mellon University. 
  • John Hopkins University Open Courseware
  • Ninety plus open courses offered from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
  • Khan Academy
    Offers access to tutorials, practice exercises, instructional videos and a personalized dashboard in many different disciplines such as math; science and engineering; computing; arts and humanities; and economics and finance.
  • Lumen Learning
    Search by subject areas for OER course materials.
  • METU OpenCourseWare (Middle East Technical University)
    Offers free and open educational resources for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world.
  • MIT Open Courseware
    Course material for over 2000 courses is available for free in various different disciplines such as Engineering, Science, Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, Science and more!
  • OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search)
    A search tool to search for OER content, including courseware, from 78 different sources and contains 155,375 records.
  • Open Course Library
    "A collection of shareable course materials, including syllabi, course activities, readings, and assessments designed by teams of college faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and other experts.  Some of the materials (also called open educational resources, or OER) are paired with low-cost textbooks ($30 or less). The course material can be used, adapted and shared for free as well as low-cost publisher materials."  This site includes courses developed specifically for community and technical colleges.
  • Open Education Consortium
    Offers free online courses along with access to course materials and expert opinions on topical issues from members of the Open Education Consortium.
  • OpenLearn
    Offers free online courses from the UK's Open University with free access to course materials and expert opinions.
  • Saylor Academy (Saylor.org)
    "Free, open online courses for people everywhere."  Includes topics such as General Education, Art History, Computer Science, English Literature, and more.

Open Text Books

BC Open Campus Textbook Project

Resources Available in Library

Books on Psychology
Anada Rangapillai Library collection is cataloged according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The library has a sizable collection of books and reading material on Psychology subject. These books are classified under the following Class Numbers:

150 Psychology
152 Perception, movement, emotions & drives
153 Mental processes & intelligence
154 Subconscious & altered states
155 Differential & developmental psychology
156 Comparative psychology
158 Applied psychology

To find the books on Psychology, please search in  Library Online Public Access Catalogue

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Video Sources

Academic Earth
Watch free lecture videos covering many disciplines from the world’s top universities.
Annenberg Learner
Teacher resources including a collection of video programs in subjects such as art, foreign language, literature/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies/history.
EduTube
Educational video search platform that organizes the best free online educational videos, and make them easy for you to find, watch and download. Browse by category, type, educational level, length, top 100, or most popular.
Open Video Project
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
TeacherTube
TeacherTube's educational technology offers a one-stop shop for user-generated educational free videos from around the world.
Contact
Dr. M. Vijayakumar
University Librarian
Ananda Rangapillai Library
Pondicherry University,
Bharat Ratna Dr. B.R.Ambedkar Administrative Building,
R.V.Nagar, Kalapet,
Puducherry – 605014.
Email: librarian@pondiuni.edu.in
Phone: 0413 - 2654205
Remote Login Access
Remote Login Access provides off campus access to all the subscribed e-resources of Ananda Rangapillai Library. This facility is being provided to faculty, research scholars and students of Pondicherry University to facilitate and promote the use of e-resources at the point of need and use.
https://elibpondiuni.remotexs.in/
Style Manuals
  • MLA style (Modern Language Association) is typically used by the Humanities
  • APA style (American Psychological Association)  often is used by Education, Psychology, and Business
  • Chicago/Turabian (Professor Turabian, University of Chicago) is generally used by History and some of the Fine Arts
Reference & Citation Management Tools
Key to Icons

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