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Psychology Resources: Psychology

This library guide includes links to specific library resources to help you with your pyschology coursework. Here, you can also find information about APA Style and avoiding plagiarism. BE SURE TO SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE and look at ALL of the boxes!

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Psychology Databases

Search for scholarly information within these library databases for articles that are appropriate to use for your research assignments.

Find E-books

The MCTC library has over 400,000 ebooks on-demand 24/7! 

Avoiding Plagiarism

Plagiarism can be DELIBERATE or UNINTENTIONAL. Whenever you borrow words or ideas, you MUST acknowledge their source to give the author/creator credit and to respect their intellectual property!

The following situations almost always require citation:

  • turning in someone else's work as your own
  • failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
  • giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
  • changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
  • copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work [also called "fair use" in copyright law], whether you give credit or not 

--excerpt from Plagiarism.org


For more help understanding plagiarism and citation for research papers, consult the library's Citation Guide.

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Can't get to the databases? Go to the Off-Campus Instructions library guide. 

NOTE: Students may see a login error when accessing electronic library resources. Often, this error occurs when using Google Chrome. This error is generally caused either by an expired authentication token or a prior sign-in attempt in progress. 

To avoid this error, you can close the browser and reopen it in a "private" or "incognito" window. It is recommended that college students and employees always use private browsing to access library electronic content. Using a browser other than Chrome may also prevent this error from occuring. You may also fix this problem by going to your browser settings to the search history and clear/delete the data from websites you have visited and clear the cookies saved in the history. Then, close the browser and reopen it. 

Accessing E-Books

Use the hand-out above to help you understand how you can access the library's e-book collections, including which smart devices you can download e-book content onto.

APA (American Psychological Association) Citation Resources

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