Psychology & Sociology
 Resources on the Web

Psychology

PsycINFO
Contains records of journal articles and other resources in the field of psychology & psychological aspects of related disciplines. Journal coverage spans 1887 to the present, including material from 1,300 journals.

Searching PsycINFO
A guide to the psychology periodical database PsycINFO (through SilverPlatter) from the University of North Carolina. Provides graphic searching examples and explanations of the database.

E-Books on Psychology
Made available by netLibrary, check out new electronic books on psychology.

CyberPsych Link
From the site: "MegaList of Psychology & Medicine related Search Tools, ListServs, UseNet Groups, Organizations, Electronic Journals & Newsletters, DataBases & Archives, Grant and Job Info, Library Catalogs, Reference Materials, General & Specific Psychology & Medicine Links, Self-Help Links, Software for Psychology, and History & Teaching of Psychology, and more. CyberPsychLink originated in 1995 and is one of the original resources on the WWW in these fields. It is continually updated."

PSYC SITE: The Internet Resource for the Science of Psychology
Another site of extensive links with focus on scientific aspects of psychology. Sites dealing with self-help or parapsychology are not listed.

Psych Web
In addition to its "mega list" of links, the full-text of Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience and links to collections of online brochures, pamphlets, and some articles are given. This site includes a section on self-help resources about psychological disorders.

Links to Psychological Journals
From the site: "An Index of 1,000+ Psychology and Social Science Journals Online covering English, German, French, and Dutch language journals; providing general journal information (nearly all), tables of contents (many), abstracts (some), or full-text articles (few)."

Psychology Resources
A guide to psychology research on the Internet. Contains general instruction and many links to assist the psychology researcher.

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Sociology

E-Books on Sociology
Made available by netLibrary, check out new electronic books on sociology.

American Sociological Association
The homepage of one of the major organizations in the field includes "Opportunity Links" to information on grants and employments resources as well as links to publicly available data resources.

SocioWeb
A searchable site of links to various resources. The "Community" page offers a "chat" feature for online discussions.

Sociology Links
Extensive links for sociologists, especially academic departments of sociology worldwide maintained by sociology graduate student, Julian Dierkes, at Princeton University.

SocioSite (Sociological Institute, University of Amsterdam)
A well organized and annotated site. From the site: "It has been designed from a Dutch point of view, but it has a much broader horizon - it gives access to the European and world wide scene of academic sociology. The intention is to provide a comprehensive listing of all sociology resources on the Internet."

Electronic Journal of Sociology
The journal's mission statement: "Because the EJS enjoys low overhead, and is published with the goodwill and hard work of its board members and peer reviewers, the EJS is free of charge to individuals, libraries, academic and commercial organizations. It is part of, and a model for, a new publishing paradigm whereby the scholars themselves retain control over all aspects of the scholarly communication process." The full text of articles is keyword searchable. (When an article is accessed, a secondary browser session is launched.)

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