The Oxford Library of Psychology, a landmark series of handbooks, is published
by Oxford University Press, one of the world’s oldest and most highly
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publishers, with a tradition of publishing significant books in psychology. The
ambitious goal of the Oxford Library of Psychology is nothing less than to span
a vibrant, wide-ranging field and, in so doing, to fill a clear market need.
Encompassing a comprehensive set of handbooks, organized hierarchically, the
Library incorporates volumes at different levels, each designed to meet a distinct
need. At one level are a set of handbooks designed broadly to survey the major
subfields of psychology; at another are numerous handbooks that cover important
current focal research and scholarly areas of psychology in depth and detail.
Planned as a reflection of the dynamism of psychology, the Library will grow and
expand as psychology itself develops, thereby highlighting significant new research
that will impact on the field. Adding to its accessibility and ease of use, the Library
will be published in print and, later on, electronically.
The Library surveys psychology’s principal subfields with a set of handbooks
that capture the current status and future prospects of those major subdisciplines.
This initial set includes handbooks of social and personality psychology, clinical
psychology, counseling psychology, school psychology, educational psychology,
industrial and organizational psychology, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuro-
science, methods and measurements, history, neuropsychology, personality assess-
ment, developmental psychology, and more. Each handbook undertakes to review
one of psychology’s major subdisciplines with breadth, comprehensiveness, and
exemplary scholarship. In addition to these broadly conceived volumes, the
Library also includes a large number of handbooks designed to explore in depth
more specialized areas of scholarship and research, such as stress, health and
coping, anxiety and related disorders, cognitive development, or child and adoles-
cent assessment. In contrast to the broad coverage of the subfield handbooks, each
of these latter volumes focuses on an especially productive, more highly focused
line of scholarship and research. Whether at the broadest or most specific level,
however, all of the Library handbooks offer synthetic coverage that reviews and
evaluates the relevant past and present research and anticipates research in the
future. Each handbook in the Library includes introductory and concluding chapters
written by its editor to provide a roadmap to the handbook’s table of contents and
to offer informed anticipations of significant future developments in that field.
An undertaking of this scope calls for handbook editors and chapter authors who
are established scholars in the areas about which they write. Many of the nation’s and
world’s most productive and best-respected psychologists have agreed to edit Library
handbooks or write authoritative chapters in their areas of expertise.
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