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Journals will give you:
- Current information
- Narrow focused topics
Note: Use the Thesaurus of Psychological
Index Terms
(located on the dictionary stand across
from the circulation desk) or click the
thesaurus button on the tool bar of PsycINFO
to find the correct psychological vocabulary
for your topic.
Databases:
PsycARTICLES
PsycArticles is produced by the American Psychological
Association. It contains full text articles covering "general psychology
and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology".
PsycINFO 1887-current
PsycInfo is produced by the American Psychological
Association. This database is not full text! It will only give you a full
bibliographic citation and a summary of the item's contents.
Access: On the Giovale Library home page:
Once you are in PsycINFO, enter your search term(s) (see Note above)
and then scroll down to the special limiters for PsycINFO. Click
on the arrow in the drop down boxes to select your limiters:
Annual
Reviews : Psychology (full-text access to 1996 and later only)
Annual Reviews provides critical reviews of
the discipline written by leading scientists.
Academic Search Premier from EBSCOhost
This database provides full text for nearly 1,530 journals covering the social
sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and
much more.
Contemporary
Women's Issues - Covers women's issues on human rights, the
work place, legal status, health issues and more.
Lippincott,
Williams & Wilkins Biomedical Journal Collection
Although mostly a medical collection, this database contains some journals
in the Behavioral & Social Sciences area.
NLM Gateway from
their web site: "The NLM Gateway is a Web-based system that
lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at
the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM)
Do your article research early, so that you have plenty of time
to order articles not available in Giovale Library.
Early research eliminates frustration!
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