Psychology: Books

The Library has purchased a number of large collections of electronic books, but each platform has its own conditions of use, and methods of access

eBook platforms and how to use them
This guide will assist you with using the various eBook platforms - e.g. EBSCO, ebrary, Cambridge, and Taylor and Francis.

Help with use of eBooks, is available, and includes options for downloading and printing.

All individual book titles can be found using Library Search

DSM Library - this includes all editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association. we also have access to the current editions of American Psychiatric Publishing books

PsycBOOKS
PsycBOOKS is a full-text database that provides electronic access to thousands of scholarly and professional titles published by the American Psychological Association, including recent titles in psychological and behavioural science, plus a substantial back file of classic and historic works.

Useful sources of free online books are:-

The National Library of Medicine in the United States has many free online books of interest for psychology.

National Academies Press is another source of free health and psychology related online books, for example:

There are other search options available in Library Search, but remember to limit your search to Books

Use this link to check on loan periods

Requesting a Book from our Collection

It's so annoying to come to the Library to borrow a book only to find that somebody else has got there before you, so make an online request. Library staff will retrieve the book from the shelves, and let you know when it's ready to collect.

Sometimes you won't find the book you need in our collection, but Libraries Australia will let you see details of books held in all major libraries throughout the country, and our Document Delivery service can borrow them for you on interlibrary loan.

Libraries Australia
Libraries Australia is a web-based service for Australian libraries and their users. It is a National Bibliographic Database of material held in libraries throughout the country, and enables you to search for an item and find out which library in Australia holds it. Use the Help option on the toolbar to find hints on effective searching.
With the Advanced Search option you can restrict your search to books held by libraries in South Australia.

Check the catalogues of the libraries of Flinders University and the University of South Australia. If either of these libraries holds the book you need, you can visit the library and borrow it.

OR

Request  the book on interlibrary loan, using our Document Delivery service.
Up to 50 requests are supplied free of charge for each person for each calendar year.

Use the Inter Library Request link in Library Search to make a request.

 Just sign in, then click on the Inter Library Request option in the toolbar at the top of the screen, and fill in the request form.

Additional information is here.

Much government report literature is available free online, and there are some publishers who also provide free online books - see the example from National Academies Press in the left hand column.

Google Advanced Search is really useful for searching for government report literature.It allows phrase searching in combination with multiple options.

You can limit your search in the following ways:-

• to a site, or domain, eg. gov.au   gov.uk  etc.

• to a geographical region

• to a file type

• and to a language

Government and Organisational Sites