Starting a search

Tutorials

Megan Bradley's (for online searching)

Bright Planet's (for online searching)

Professor Wolfe's (for PsycINFO)

Generating search terms

Mooter (allows you to see a diagram of possible search terms)

Clusty (be sure to look at "clusters" on the left of your search results)

Search engines

Google advanced search

To expand searches, put ~ before any important word so Google will search for synonyms of that word,

To narrow searches, (a) use a long search phrase (you can use up to 32 words), (b) put key phrases in quotes, (c) use site:edu (to limit results to university sites), and (d) eliminate unwanted terms by using "-" in front of them).

Google Scholar

Other search engines

Chacha

Dogpile

Yahoo's Advanced Web Search Page

Ask's Advanced Web Search Page

Microsoft Live Search

Gigablast Advanced Search

Query Server

Yahoo directory

General reference information

AOL's Reference Desk

Internet Public Library

New York Times Newsroom Navigator

News Search Engines

Google News Advanced Search (if too many sources, change option in "Occurrences" box --last on page--from "anywhere in article" to "in the headline of article"

Yahoo News Advanced Search (If you are looking for a recent article, change the "Sorted by" field from "relevance" to "date")

Refdesk

Wikipedia

Yahoo! Answers

Information that was--but is no longer-- on the web

Psychology Specific Sites

APA (American Psychological Association)

Home page

Journal page (often contains both a press release and full-text pdf of the article). Usually will have links to selected articles.

Press Releases

Practical applications of psychological science to daily life

Recent reports of psychological research from mass media

APS (Association for Psychological Science)