Subject Guides: Psychology: Encyclopedias and handbooks

Dictionaries

Encyclopaedia Britannica Academic Edition This link opens in a new window
One of the world's largest English-language encyclopaedias. Also contains Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words - past and present - from across the English-speaking world. Include the history of individual words, and of the language - traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to films scripts and cookery books.

Encyclopedia of Social Psychology
This encyclopedia contains two volumes with more than 600 posts on important concepts, ideas and notions in social psychology.
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
An Encyclopedia who maps social and behavioral sciences on a large scale.
It’s contains about 26 volumes, 4,000 articles and 90,000 bibliographic references.
SAGE knowledge handbooks
Here you can access several handbooks and encyclopedias on different specializations and themes within psychology.
Treatments That Work
Guides and handbooks for therapists in various fields. It's available through the Oxford Clinical Psychology platform.

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
Medical Subject Headings. Search among MeSH terms to find good keywords for Pubmed.