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Alcohol Studies Database
" The database contains over 50,000 citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and audio-visual material."
Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies

History & Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive (HTP Prints)
"It is offered as a free service to the community of scholarly historians and theoreticians of psychology with the goal of promoting the rapid dissemination of new work in the field."
Edited by Christopher D. Green, History & Theory of Psychology Program, York University, Canada

Murray Research Center
Radcliffe College

MuSICA: Music & Science Information Computer Archive
"Data Base Contents: Scientific research (references & abstracts) on music as related to behavior, the brain and allied fields." Updated weekly. Also includes MuSICA Research Notes, "a newsletter issued Winter, Spring and Fall, that provides reports and critical analysis of research on music and behavior, including education, child development, psychology, cognitive sciences, neuroscience, clinical medicine, music therapy and allied fields."
Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine

On-line Search Facility for the Jourlit/Bookrev Databases

NIMH Genetics Initiative - (dead link)
"The goal of this Initiative is to study individuals affected with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or Alzheimer disease and their relatives, in order to establish a national resource of clinical/diagnostic information and immortalized cell lines for DNA extraction."
National Institute of Mental Health

PILOTS (PTSD) Database
"...a bibliographical database covering Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress."
National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Psychoanalysis: Literature Search
"The Jourlit and Bookrev databases, originated by Drs. Stanley Goodman and Vann Spruiell, together constitute a huge BIBLIOGRAPHY of psychoanalytic journal articles, books, and book reviews. Including files supplied by others, the complete set of references consists almost 30,000 entries."

PsychCrawler
"PsychCrawler is a product of the American Psychological Association created to provide quick access to quality content in the field of psychology. This product is now in its beta phase of testing."

Digital Library
Calvin, William H.
William H. Calvin's Books and Articles
Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine

• Free "Webbed" Versions
  • Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change
    University of Chicago Press, 2002
  • Lingua ex Machina: Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain
    MIT Press, 2000.
  • The Cerebral Code": Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind
    MIT Press, 1996.
  • How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now
    Basic Books, 1996
  • Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language
    Addison-Wesley, 1994

Classics in the History of Psychology
(ISSN 1492-3173)
"...is an effort to make the full texts of a large number of historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines available on the World Wide Web. There are now over 25 books and over 150 articles and chapters on-line. The site also contains links to nearly 200 relevant works posted at other sites ... The target audience is researchers, teachers, and students of the history of psychology, both for use in their courses on the history of psychology, and for the purposes of primary academic research. To assist undergraduate teaching, in particular, original introductory articles and commentaries, written by some of the leading historians of psychology in North America, have been attached to a number of the most important works."
An Electronic Resource Developed by Christopher D. Green, York University, Toronto, Canada

The Interpretation of Dreams
By Sigmund Freud ; 3rd ed., 1911
Translated by A. A. Brill - from Psych Web

[James, William] William James
Sections include: Essays, Excerpts, Letters, and Reviews ; From Talks to Teachers ; The Principles of Psychology ; Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking ; The Meaning of Truth ; The Will to Believe ; Essays in Radical Empiricism ; On The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature ; Other Sites ; Essays about James Williams ; Bibliographic Info ; Discussion Groups.

Journal of Online Behavior - (dead link)
"Dedicated to the empirical study of human behavior online"

Learning & Memory
Free access to full-text articles 1 year after publication.

Library of Congress - Federal Research Division - Terrorism Studies - (dead link)

• The Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why? - (dead link)
  Report Prepared under an Interagency Agreement by the Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, September 1999, Author: Rex A. Hudson.

National Academy Press (free online versions)

• 2005
  • Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities
    Garry D. Brewer and Paul C. Stern, Editors, Panel on Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities for Environmental Decision Making, Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change, National Research Council.
• 2003
  • Preparing for the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism: A Public Health Strategy
    Committee on Responding to the Psychological Consequences of Terrorism, Adrienne Stith Butler, Allison M. Panzer, Lewis R. Goldfrank, Editors, 2003.
• 2002
  • Reducing Suicide: A National Imperative
    SK Goldsmith, TC Pellmar, AM Kleinman, WE Bunney, Editors, Committee on Pathophysiology & Prevention of Adolescent & Adult Suicide, Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, 2002.
  • Terrorism: Perspectives from the Behavioral and Social Sciences
    Panel on Behavioral, Social, and Institional Issues, Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism, Neil J. Smelser and Faith Mitchell, Editors, National Research Council, 2002.
• 2001
  • Early Childhood Development and Learning: New Knowledge for Policy
    National Research Council, 2001.
  • Health and Behavior: The Interplay of Biological, Behavioral, and Societal Influences
    Committee on Health and Behavior: Research, Practice and Policy, Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, 2001.
  • Secret of the Brain
    By Richard Restak, M.D. Foreword by David Grubin, Emmy-winning producer of the PBS series, 2001.
• 2000
  • From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development
    Jack P. Shonkoff and Deborah A. Phillips, Editors; Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, 2000.
  • How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition

National Science Foundation

• Post-Attack Grants to Study Human, Social Responses to September 11 Crisis (October 2001)

New Orleans Kid Camera Project
"...was created to address the psychological and emotional impacts of Hurricane Katrina on children returning home to New Orleans."

Nonverbal Dictionary of Gestures, Signs & Body Language Cues
"Items in this Dictionary have been researched by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists, linguists, psychiatrists, psychologists, semioticians, and others who have studied human communication from a scientific point of view."
By David B. Givens

Cogprints - (dead link)
Cognitive Science Archive
"...an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Psychology, neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science....Philosophy...Biology..."

PBS Scientific American Frontiers - Make Up Your Mind (October 2002)
"Scientists look to the brain's frontal lobe as the seat of personality."
Web Features include: Frontiers Profile: Adele Diamond ; Of Bumps and Brains ; Blinded by Science ; Map of the Mind.
Sections include: Watch Online ; Email Scientists ; Web Links ; Teaching Guide.

Philosophy - Neuroscience - Psychology Program
Department of Philosophy, Washington University

• Archive of Papers and Technical Reports - (dead link)

Population Studies Centre

• "Unfulfilled Career Aspirations and Psychological Well-Being" - (dead link) [.pdf]
  By Deborah Carr.

Psyche Matters
A Psychology and Psychoanalytic Resource Guide
Sections include: Papers ; Bibliographies ; Publications ; Psychoanalysis.
By Cheryl Martin

Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna - (dead link) (German or English)

• Sigmund Freud Online - (dead link)
  Sections include Chronology ; Themes ; Topography ; Media Library.
  The Media Library includes online films which "[t]ogether with a film taken in 1928 by Philip Lehrman which shows freud and members of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, these silent, amateur movies are the only films made of the founder of psychoanalysis, who otherwise shied away from photography and the media."

University of Colorado - Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center
Information on Human Adaptation to Disaster

• Natural Hazards Research Working Papers
  • Major Terrorism Events and Their U.S. Outcomes (1988-2001)
    By Claire B. Rubin, William R. Cumming, Irmak Renda-Tanali, and Thomas Birkland.
    Natural Hazards Research Working Paper #107, March 2003.

Journals
Links to Psychological Journals - (dead link)
The Journal Locator in Psychology and the Social Sciences
"...is an index of 1,600+ online psychology and social science journals. It links you to journal home pages and journal information on the web. You may use it to find out about existing journals in the field, contact publishers, browse tables of contents and abstracts, locate online articles, and much more. Links to Psychological Journals covers English, German, French, Dutch, and Spanish language journals."
By Armin G¸nther, Augsburg, in cooperation with Martien Brand, Amsterdam

Current Research in Social Psychology
An Electronic Journal

Human Nature Review (ejournal)

Journal of Mundane Behavior
"...hosted by the Department of Sociology and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton, is a new scholarly journal devoted to the study of the "unmarked" -- those aspects of our everyday lives that typically go unnoticed by us, both as academics and as everyday individuals."

Academic Discussion Lists

History & Theory of Psychology

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