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Basic information about Psychology
This guide provides an overview of the library resources available for Psychology students.

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Course Reading
Code Course Name
PSY100Introductory Psychology
PSY101Core Competencies in Psychology
PSY103Statistics for Social Sciences
PSY110Biological Bases of Behavior
PSY120Lifespan Developmental Psychology
PSY200Social Psychology
PSY204Personality and Individual Differences
PSY205Cognitive Psychology
PSY206Research Methods and Designs
PSY208Psychoanalytic Concepts
PSY209Positive Psychology
PSY213Computer-Assisted Data Analysis
PSY300Abnormal Psychology
PSY303Health Psychology
PSY307Educational Psychology
PSY308Human Sexuality
PSY309Industrial and Organizational Psychology
PSY311Research Internship I
PSY340Advanced Developmental Psychology
PSY350Criminal Psychology
PSY372Research Project II
PSY373Capstone Project I
PSY373-4Capstone Project
PSY374Capstone Project II
PSY401Research Thesis I
PSY402Research Thesis II
PSY404Psychology of Consciousness
PSY411Honours Research Project I
PSY411-2Honours Research Project
PSY412Honours Research Project II
PSY505Social Psychology
PSY506Biological Bases of Behaviour
PSY510Research Project II
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Recommended Databases (Journal Articles)
EBSCOhost - Academic Search Ultimate
EBSCOhost - Academic Search Ultimate offers students an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women's studies, zoology and more.

 

EBSCO: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
EBSCO: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection provides nearly 600 full text journals. This database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO.

ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated multi-disciplinary full-text database across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

 

ProQuest: APA PsycArticles (1894 - Current)
ProQuest: APA PsycArticles® is a robust database offering full-text access to landmark journals in behavioral science and related fields ranging from education, to nursing, to business, and more. This database provides comprehensive coverage, high-quality research, and authoritative publications on a user-friendly platform.

Full-text journals are published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals. Many titles go back to volume 1, issue 1.


ProQuest: APA PsycInfo® (1809 - Current)
ProQuest: APA PsycInfo® provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. This database is published by the American Psychological Associations and provides comprehensive indexing and abstracts of the international psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. Documents indexed include journals, articles, books, dissertations and more. 90% of the 3,000+ titles indexed in APA PsycINFO® are peer-reviewed.

Oxford Academic
Oxford Academic is Oxford University Press’s (OUP) academic research platform, providing access to over 500 journals. OUP hold a commitment to publishing pioneering authors and authoritative content, and with Oxford Academic you can research, discover, and explore the latest in scholarship from around the world. According to the 2022 Journal Citation Report from Clarivate, 47% of OUP journals are in the top quartile of their subject categories and eight are in the #1 spot. You can search across Oxford Academic’s growing body of three million journal articles to meet your research needs.

PsychiatryOnline
PsychiatryOnline is a website that features DSM-5-TR and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of a collection of psychiatric references, including books, journals, and self-assessment tools. Much more than individual titles, PsychiatryOnline features sophisticated searching and indexing tools that enable users to quickly target all the information needed.

The Library subscribes the DSM Premium collection, which covers diagnosis and differential diagnosis, case vignettes to bring abstract concepts to life, multidisciplinary treatment guidelines, the latest research - all within a single search and navigation interface that integrates journals and books.

Gale Academic OneFile
Gale Academic OneFile is the premier source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines such as Biology, Chemistry, Criminal justice, Economics, Environmental science, History, Marketing, Political science, Psychology.

Recommended Databases (eBooks)
ProQuest Ebook Central
ProQuest Ebook Central provides a breadth and depth of ebooks from scholarly sources, including university presses and other top publishers, covering the subjects of Arts, Business, Education, Health and Medicine, History and Political Science, Law, Literature and Language, Religion and Philosophy, Social Science, and Science and Technology.

 

EBSCOhost eBook Collection
EBSCOhost eBook Collection provides access to an extensive collection of ebook titles in various subjects. It includes a broad range of titles, in areas such as arts & architecture, business & economics, computer science, education, engineering & technology, fiction, history, literature & criticism, political science, religion and social sciences.

 

EBSCO: PsycBOOKS
EBSCO: PsycBOOKS, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a database of nearly 2,000 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. It also includes close to 1,500 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is Elsevier's premier platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature. It advances research and scholarship with the world's leading database of peer-reviewed, full-text scientific, technical and health literature. There are 21M articles & book chapters, 800 open-access journals and 3.3M open-access articles on the platform. It contains a large collection of Social Sciences and Humanities journals and books, highlighting historical context, current developments, theories, applications, trends and more.

Oxford Academic
Oxford Academic is Oxford University Press’s (OUP) academic research platform, providing access to over 50,000 books. OUP hold a commitment to publishing pioneering authors and authoritative content, and with Oxford Academic you can research, discover, and explore the latest in scholarship from around the world. You can search across Oxford Academic’s growing body of 600,000 book chapters, and five million images and multimedia to meet your research needs.

Wiley Digital Textbooks
Wiley Digital Textbooks published by Wiley, currently feature over 20,000 original academic textbooks, covering more than 30 disciplines, including business management, engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, life and earth sciences, medical health, social sciences, hospitality management, and humanities.

Loan period: 3 days for each book
Loan quota: 5 titles for each user


VitalSource (e-textbook platform)
VitalSource is the e-textbook platform which provides many different subjects of the e-textbooks. Users could borrow them via this platform. It supports mobile app in IOS and Android, users can read offline accordingly. Furthermore, users can make notes on their borrowed e-textbooks during the loan period.

Loan period: 1 day for each book
Loan quota: 5 titles for each user


Airiti iRead eBooks 華藝電子書
華藝中文電子書平台收錄了不同出版社授權的數萬本華文電子書, 本館已選購部分電子書,每本電子書均可供數人同時全文閱讀,主題包括經典文學、語言學習、商業經營、政治法律、社會心理、文學小說、醫療保健、藝術設計、電腦資訊、工程數學、歷史、哲學等。

 

HyRead ebook
HyRead ebook 是一個台灣電子書平台,提供最新出版學術、專業、休閒及工具書各類書籍,包含人文社會、文學小說、語言學習、財經商管、科學科普、電腦資訊、宗教心靈、醫藥養生、藝術設計、休閒生活、親子童書等各領域的電子書。

Alexander Street: Academic Video Online
Alexander Street's Academic Video Online contains over 70,000 titles of award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, and training videos. The subjects include Business, Counselling, Film, Health, History, Music, etc. There are lots of useful resources to all types of patrons for educational use.

Alexander Street: Behavioral and Mental Health Online
Alexander Street's Behavioral and Mental Health Online provides a comprehensive, rich, and diverse collection of video and text for anyone studying or teaching in the area of mental health. Programs in counseling, social work, nursing, psychology and behavioral health will all benefit from the wide variety of content in this collection, which includes clinical mental health demonstrations, actual therapy sessions, compelling documentaries on the human condition, psychotherapy transcripts, as well client narratives and reference works. Content included in the package has been the recipient of the Best Niche Product award from Library Journal and was deemed “highly recommended” by Choice Magazine.

APA PsycTESTS (PsycNet)
APA PsycTESTS (PsycNet) is a research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the test and its development and administration.

APA Video Introduction to Psychotherapy Systems
APA Video Introduction to Psychotherapy Systems is a special collection of therapy demonstrations that was chosen specifically for undergraduate programs in psychology, and is essential for any institution looking for an authoritative introduction to psychotherapy.

Each of the 20+ videos in this collection focuses on demonstrating a different psychotherapeutic approach. 

Physical Books
  Psychology applied to modern life : adjustment in the 21st century
Publication Date : 2024
Call number : 158 WEI 2024
Location : English Book (4/F)
  Challenging bias in forensic psychological assessment and testing : theoretical and practical approaches to working with diverse populations
Publication Date : 2023
Call number : 614.15 CHA 2023
Location : English Book (4/F)
  Psychology at the heart of social change : developing a progressive vision for society
Publication Date : 2023
Call number : 303.4019 COO 2023
Location : English Book (4/F)
  Learning and behavior
Publication Date : 2023
Call number : 153.15 CHA 2023
Location : English Book (4/F)
  榮格想與你談性格 : 原型、個性化、人格面具, 分析心理學始祖為你破解「性格決定命運」的密碼
Publication Date : 2022
Call number : 149.64 1410 2022
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5-TR
Publication Date : 2022
Call number : 616.89075 DIA 2022
Location : English Book (4/F)
  Behavioral neuroscience : essentials and beyond
Publication Date : 2021
Call number : 612.8 GAS 2021
Location : English Book (4/F)
  夢境心理學 : 治療師帶你潛入一夢一世界 = Psychology of dreams
Publication Date : 2021
Call number : 175.1 616 2021
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
  DSM-5 : 精神疾病診斷與統計 = Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
Publication Date : 2018
Call number : 415.95 1410 2018
Location : Chinese Book (2/F)
Chinese eBooks
  蛤蟆先生去看心理師
Publication Date : 2022
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  人格的精神分析研究
Publication Date : 2022
Access via HyRead
  每天來點心理學, 揭開隱祕的人性關鍵字:30個史上著名的心理學實驗, 帶你突破限制, 邁向更好的自己
Publication Date : 2022
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  日常行為心理解析
Publication Date : 2022
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  圖解臨床心理學:從心理評估到心理治療, 不用藥也能治心病, 143則臨床心理學知識解析
Publication Date : 2022
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  夢的潛意識心理學:典型夢境案例+象徵符號解析, 喚出你內心隱藏的重要訊息
Publication Date : 2021
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  很正經的心理學史:放下偽心理學, 拒喝心靈雞湯, 無病呻吟怎麼可能比心理學史八卦精彩!
Publication Date : 2021
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  數字與夢:榮格心理學對一個物理學家的夢之分析
Publication Date : 2019
Access via HyRead [ebook]
  圖解精神分析引論
Publication Date : 2013
Access via HyRead [ebook]
English eBooks
  Biological psychology
Publication Date : 2024
Access via VitalSource etextbooks platform [ebook]
  A Suspicious Science: The Uses of Psychology
Publication Date : 2023
Access via Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: Psychology [ebook]
  Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
Publication Date : 2023
Access via Ebook Central Perpetual [ebook]
  A Practical Guide on Behaviour Change Support for Self-Managing Chronic Disease
Publication Date : 2023
Access via Ebook Central Perpetual [ebook]
  Qualitative Interviewing: Conversational Knowledge Through Research Interviews
Publication Date : 2023
Access via Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: Psychology [ebook]
  Reason, Bias, and Inquiry: The Crossroads of Epistemology and Psychology
Publication Date : 2022
Access via Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: Psychology [ebook]