Tutorials
Megan Bradley's (for online searching)
Learning web skills (for online searching)
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 (If at first you don't succeed, you probably will succeed if you try again using a different search engine.)
- Bing
- Chacha
- Dogpile
- Factbites
- Yahoo's Advanced Web Search Page
- Ask's Advanced Web Search Page
(from Microsoft)- Gigablast Advanced Search
- Yahoo directory
General reference information
New York Times Newsroom Navigator
News Search Engines
Google News Advanced Search (If you get too many sources, change the option in the "Occurrences" box from "anywhere in article" to "in the headline of article.")
Encyclopedias
Obtaining information that was--but is no longer-- on the web
Psychology Specific Sitess
Journal page (often contains both a press release and full-text pdf of the article). Usually will have links to selected articles.
Practical applications of psychological science to daily life
Recent reports of psychological research from mass media
APS (Association for Psychological Science)
Other search engines that will find psychological information
Psychology related blogss
General Science sites
Science Daily (blog)
Medical and Psychological Resources
Money-saving tip. Many students find an article online and pay for that article because they do not know that their school's library has a subscription to that journal or to a database that has that article. Do not make that mistake. If you do not know whether your library already pays for that journal, ask one of your school's reference librarians.