Research Guides: PSYC 285: Cultural Psychology Lab (BMC): Home

Getting Started

A good place to start your research! Search within these reference books to gather background information on your topic.

Annual Review of Psychology
Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field and help them keep up to date in their area of research. Each article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary research literature referenced within each topic.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Psychology
Provides thorough introductions to topics in psychology and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in the field. Browse to the psychology subject and use the Quick Search Term box in the left column to find articles by keyword.

Google Scholar
Search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports in all disciplines. Linked to Tripod.
PsycINFO
Essential database of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and dissertations in psychology and related behavioral sciences from 1887 - present.
Includes PsycARTICLES journals.
Web of Science
Find multidisciplinary scholarly articles (sciences, social sciences, and humanities). Citation searching also allows search for highly cited articles and books.

Literature Review Form and Construction
Explains what literature reviews are and offers insights into the form and construction of literature reviews in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Literature Reviews (Purdue OWL)
A list of useful questions for revising your own literature review draft.