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Psychology: Books & Journals

Academic sources

You will be expected to use academic sources in your assignments. Many of these academic sources will come from books and journal articles. 

Books

Books are particularly useful for an introduction to or broad overview of a topic. The Library has both print books and E-Books and you will find both by searching Library Search.

In the library, books about the same subject are assigned the same shelfmark number which you will find on the spine of each book and listed on the catalogue. Here is a selection of shelfmarks for Psychology:

Psychology 150

Abnormal Psychology 616.89

Biological Psychology 612.8

Developmental Psychology 155

Health Psychology 610.19

Social Psychology 302

Browzine

Use BrowZine to browse thousands of academic journals available to you as a DMU member.

Check our guide to Browzine to find out how to browse and read journals quickly and easily on your laptop or mobile device by dowloading the app

Journals

Use journals to find:

  • useful information, research and discussions
  • different view points from different authors
  • current information as journals are published quicker than books.
 
You can find journal articles by searching Library Search and also by searching individual databases as listed on the Databases' tab of this guide.