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Lloyd Sealy Library
John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Ebooks: PsycBooks

About PsyBOOKS

PsycBOOKS is a collection of books published by the APA, including 700 classics and more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. These books may be accessed by an unlimited number of  users at the same time. It is available on the familiar Ebsco platform.

Tips for Searching PsycBOOKS

PsycBOOKS is available on the familiar Ebscohost platform. Some advanced features allow you to narrow your search by Methodology

and Classification Codes

PsycbooksBOOKS and PsycEXTRA all together in one search.

Results display on the chapter level.

Printing in PsycBOOKS

Printing is at the chapter level. Once you've opened up a pdf of a chapter, you will see a toolbar to the right of the text. If you click on the print icon there, you will get a pop-up box that only allows you to print the citation and abstract of the chapter and to choose the citation format: