PsycBooks: New E-books and Handbooks Now Available!

PsycBooks is an collection of ebooks that includes thousands of early works in psychology as well as most APA books. APA recently announced that they will now include newly released e-books and APA handbooks as well.

It is available to Sofia Library patrons through our EbscoHost collection.

How does it work? If you wish to focus your search on the e-books in PsycBooks, you can use the following instructions to make the process quick and easy.

1. Navigate to EbscoHost on our Access Databases page or use the EbscoHost link above.
2. Log in if you are off campus.
3. Choose the Journal Articles, Books, & Test Reviews link or the Ebsco Mobile link if you are on a mobile device.
4. Scroll down and click on the PsycBooks link. That will allow you to focus your search to PsycBooks e-book content only.
5. Type in your search and press Enter.
6. The results will be chapters from individual books. Each chapter is in PDF format. You can download, read, and print any chapter. It is yours to keep.

There are other ways to search if you navigate to the Advanced Search option.

We hope you enjoy the additional content in this database. If you need help, please email us at refdesk@sofia.edu

More about PsycBooks

PsycBOOKS® from the American Psychological Association (APA), includes over 38,000 chapters in PDF from over 2,500 books, published by the APA and other distinguished publishers, and includes digitized content of historical significance from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection . It also contains over 1,600classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s, and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

 

APA handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality (Vol 1): Context, Theory, and Research is Online

Check out the new APA handbook of Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality (Vol 1): Context, Theory, and Research. It is available in full text online. You can access and download each chapter as a PDF.

The goal of this handbook is to provide thorough coverage of the current state of the field: what we know about religion and spirituality and their roles in human functioning (as well as what we do not know), and how we can apply this knowledge to advance the welfare of people, individually and collectively. In addition, we hope to spur the field forward by encouraging greater coherence and integration in the field. To achieve our first goal of thorough coverage of the psychology of religion and spirituality, we have taken the ambitious approach of creating a two-volume handbook. To achieve our second goal of encouraging greater coherence in the field, we have taken two steps. First, we have developed an integrative paradigm, consisting of several guiding themes for the field. Our integrative paradigm is introduced in the first chapter of Volume 1 and elaborated further in the introduction to Volume 2. Readers are strongly encouraged to read these introductory chapters to provide them with this orienting vision for the field. We also shared the integrative paradigm with the authors of our chapters and asked them to work within this overarching perspective. Second, we have provided a strong organizing framework for these two volumes. Although both volumes integrate research, theory, and practice, the first volume places greater emphasis on research and theory, and the second volume focuses in greater detail on practice.  - APA Site

It is tremendously validating to see this work, and the Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology, to be published within a year of each other. One might say it is a trend!

Currently we have the substantial 700-page first volume, but we will be looking into getting volume two as soon as possible.

APA Style Guide for Electronic References: Free for Sofia Students, Staff and Faculty

For new and returning students, please take advantage of your access to the most recent APA Style Guide for Electronic Resources. This guide was released last year. This document functions as a helpful supplement and update to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association with regard to various types of e-resources.   We purchased it and placed it on two sites for protected access: Angel and ebrary. This is licensed content that is for your personal use only.

The ebrary copy will function as a reference copy (reading, printing out sections), etc.

The Angel copy will be available for download as a PDF by students, staff, and faculty who have an Angel account. This PDF copy can be kept or printed for personal use. Please contact us at refdesk@sofia.edu if you do not have an Angel account. 

Ebrary

1. Go to http://site.ebrary.com/lib/itp/docDetail.action?docID=80093361&p00=apa
2. If you are off campus, log in using your Library Database Username and Password.

Library Site on Angel (please log in before accessing)

1. Go to  http://itp.angellearning.com/default.asp
2. Log in as usual.
3. Click on the Library link under institutional resources.  Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the APA Guide to Electronic References 6th Ed. document. You will be able to download the pdf document.

Please note that this document only addresses citations for electronic materials. In a rapidly changing world, we hope this will be of use to you.

Let us know if you have any problem accessing this document. 

More Information from the Publisher:

Adapted throughout to meet the latest reference standards from the Sixth Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association^®, this guide is the go-to source for referencing online and web-based research materials. Available in an easy-to-use PDF format, the APA Style Guide to Electronic References provides an authoritative reference guide to help navigate the ambiguous world of reference sources found online, including:

• The key elements to include when referencing electronic sources, especially those with incomplete or missing information

• Common usage of digital object identifiers (DOIs) in validating reference material

• Reference information for websites, Internet message boards, electronic mailing lists, and social media

• Reference information for data sets, software, and online measurement instruments

• And much more

With a wealth of detailed examples, the APA Style Guide to Electronic References will be an indispensable resource for anyone conducting online research in the social sciences.