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.

 

All about E-Books: Sofia University Library's E-book Collections Overview

E-books seem to be a hot topic in recent months. The Sofia University Library currently has a number of e-book collections with full text digital books to read and download. All e-book collections are accessible from the Access Databases page.

All e-books can be read online in your favorite browser. With some e-books, you can download and keep chapters. With some you can download and read sections on a short term basis.

PsycBooks: Chapters from 2,000 books published by APA, and other publishers, classic books in psychology, and authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. Chapters are downloaded as PDFs to keep. Found in the EbscoHost Database collection.

ebrary: Searchable database of over 80,000 recent full text books in many academic fields. Titles are added monthly. There are several options for reading or using the e-books in ebrary. Read online as long as you have an internet connection. Download or print sections. If you wish to download the entire text, you will need Adobe Digital Editions and the copy you download will expire in 14 days.

Springer E-Books in Behavioral Sciences: Database of over 400 books in behavioral sciences published by Springer from 2005-2013. New titles are added each year. Chapters are downloadable as PDFs to keep.

There are also smaller collections of e-books in other databases:

Counseling & Psychotherapy Transcripts: Database of therapy and counseling session transcripts that includes 40 digital reference works. Sections are printable.

Ebsco e-book Collection: Full text for selected transpersonal books. Small but growing! Found in the EbscoHost Database collection. Read online as long as you have an internet connection.

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