Psychology

Secondary sources do not report the findings of individual research studies and often take the form of book chapters, review articles, and commentaries. They may or may not be peer-reviewed and, typically, are not used as evidence to support your research question or hypothesis. Review articles and book chapters are useful for introducing an unfamiliar topic or concept. Examining the references section of secondary resources is a good strategy for finding relevant primary sources.

Review publications contain articles that review the research literature already done in a given area. A review article can give you a good up-to-date synthesis of a particular topic and provide you with an extensive bibliography to mine for primary literature. 

In addition to review specific journals, review articles can be found in PubMed, PsycInfo and Scopus. All of these databases allow you to filter to review articles only.

Use the Reed library catalog to search for print books and ebooks from Reed's collection. You can also search the print holdings of other local libraries (via Summit).

Reed College used the Library of Congress (LC) Classification system to arrange the books in the stacks. Psychology books are found in many different parts of the collection. Below are some suggested areas for browsing the stacks.