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Psychology

An introductory guide to key psychology resources, and getting help for your assignments.

Search tips

Login and search LibrarySearch using keywords that describe your topic, then refine your results to the resource you are wanting, such as books, chapters or journals.

  • Combine your keywords with AND to find all search terms. 
  • Use OR to find alternative words or synonyms.
  • Find "exact phrases" with quotation marks. 
  • Add an asterisk to part of a word to find all different endings and plurals. 

An example search: 

"mental health" AND  (trauma OR ptsd) AND measure*

Journals

Below is a selection of peer-reviewed journals, meaning they have been evaluated and critically appraised by a group of experts in the field, available via RMIT University Library. More can be found by searching the list of journals on the Library website.  

You will need to enter your login details to access these journals.

 

Open access journals 

These journals contain peer reviewed content which, under the principles of open access, is freely available.

Newspapers

Check out the Library’s News and Newspapers guide.

BrowZine Library

BrowZine is a great way to find journals in your subject area to read on a desktop or mobile device.

Scholarly information

Is it a peer reviewed journal?