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Psychology 2: Resources Available at the Library
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Psyc2/Hughes.html
Selecting an Article | Emailing/Printing Articles | APA Citation Format | Other Library Resources
Library Home Page: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/
Psychology Journals
Online:
http://tinyurl.com/9a56t
(Do NOT use Psychology
Today or Total Health for this assignment)
List
of Psychology Journals at Chabot Library
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/PsycJournals.pdf
Citing
APA Sources from Online Databases http://tinyurl.com/5bglw
Why Journals and not Books or Magazines for this assignment?
Because in the areas of the
sciences and social sciences which include Psychology, the latest scientific
research is published in journals. Books would be dated and be too
lengthy to handle for this type of assignment and popular magazines in
psychology rarely contain primary source articles. A journal is basically
a peer-reviewed periodical published on a regular basis with articles that are
written by scholars for scholars in a specialized field. This handout
will guide you to the journals, themselves, which are almost always indexed
with popular magazines.
Psychology Journals at the Periodical Desk and Microfilm on the Mezzanine
If you want to browse through journals, Chabot College does have a number of titles available in print at the Periodical Desk. The Periodical desk is located opposite of the main room of the Library, against the wall, next to the elevator. Go to the index to see what titles we have available and ask for a copy. A seven-day checkout is available for issues of a journal.
Chabot College Library also
has a number of titles available in the Microfilm format with some titles going
back to the 1950's or even earlier. The microfilm rolls are available in
green cabinets on the mezzanine. They are alphabetical, by journal,
magazine, and newspaper title. Microfilm readers are available against
the wall, and if you need assistance to load a microfilm reel properly, ask for
assistance at the Audio Visual Center Desk, which is to your right. The
microfilm readers also have photocopiers built in. Cost per copy is ten
center per page.
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Psychology
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Ebsco Host from Off Campus: http://tinyurl.com/42bj9 |
For this assignment, most Psychology journals are available on line and in full text in Ebsco Host Academic Search Elite.
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Select
the databases you want to search such as Academic Search Elite and
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Searching for a
Topic of Your Interest and Limiting it to Journals
After selecting your
databases, you will be brought to a search form. When conducting a search
for this assignment, always make sure the "Peer-Reviewed" box IS
CHECKED.Note: the two databases listed below are no longer available.
Select Academic Search Elite.
If you get results you do
not want, click on 
and perform a different search.
Take note that the
following search terms will most often NOT WORK: primary source,
experiment, descriptive study, correlational.
Usually you have to look AT
THE ARTICLE, itself, to determine if it is a primary source.
You can also search by
ONE TERM at a time by clicking on
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If you get results you do not
want, click on 
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perform a different search.o view your past searches, click on 
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Reading the Results List Screen
The above diagram refers to how to read results on Ebsco Host, in general. Take note that for this assignment, you do not want book reviews, period.
Sometimes charts may NOT
appear on regular full text, so if Full Page Image is available, you
will want to view that version. You need to click on the Full Page Image
icon to view the full text which looks like this: 
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For some articles, you will
not see text below, but you will see this icon: .
Click on the icon and the full text will appear. To be able to see these
pages, you must have Adobe Acrobat
on your computer. There is a free version available to read
documents. It is available at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
To know how to look at the
contents of an article and to determine whether it is a primary or secondary
source, go to Analyzing
the Article
Reading the Top of an Article
Notice in the example below, that you can click on links to Subject Headings, the title of the journal/magazine itself (Source), or the author's name. If you find a really good article and want to find more like it, clicking on one of these may help. Notice that the abstract does not make it clear that the article is in fact a primary source article. You still need to look at the article, itself, to discover that this article contains a scientific study on a population.
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Title: |
Maternal responses to the life and death of
a child with a developmental disability: A story of... |
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Subject(s): |
BEREAVEMENT;
DEVELOPMENTALLY disabled children; MOTHER & child |
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Source: |
Death Studies, Sep/Oct97,
Vol. 21 Issue 5, p443, 34p, 2 charts, 2 graphs |
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Author(s): |
Milo, Elizabeth Moult |
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Abstract: |
Examines the bereavement experience of
mothers who have lost a developmentally disabled child. Variables associated
with optimal or complicated bereavement; Mothers' success in
using cognitive coping strategies; Implications for helping professionals. |
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Browsing Journals
http://tinyurl.com/9a56t |
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142 titles are listed
below. Scan each page until you find
a journal you would like to browse. Note:
Psychology Today and Total Health are NOT scholarly journals and will not
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When
selecting a journal, a screen will appear that will then allow you to select
a particular issue. For EbscoHost
(listed right), select the link next to the “Full Text” listing. You will then browse all published articles,
starting with the most recent published.
For other databases such as Project MUSE, you will need to select a
particular issue (see below):
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Analyzing the Article: Primary Source vs. Other Articles
In general, you should always analyze and study an article, carefully, before selecting it for your research (let alone, printing it). For this assignment, you have to look at the article carefully enough to determine that it is a primary source. Your instructor should cover the differences between a primary source (examples: experiment, quasi-experiment, correlational or descriptive study) and a secondary source (examples: literature review, book review). You should also be able to look beyond any editorials or brief articles that do not focus on any type of psychological study at all. Here are some clues to guide you:
A primary source should be more than a couple pages long. While part of the article may review other experiments and studies done on a topic, that part should be limited to the introduction and should not cover the entire article. Most often, you will see the article broken down into categories such as Method, Measures, Procedures, Data Analysis, Results, and Conclusion. The wordings and number of such categories can vary. Studies usually will include exhibits, charts, or graphs as a visual to the data the author(s) have collected.
A secondary source will be more of an analysis of other articles. The
author(s) are not conducting an experiment or study on his/her/their own.
Instead, the entire article discusses, evaluates and probes other
studies. You, yourself, will be creating a "secondary source"
with the paper you will write for this assignment.
Selecting an Article
Once you have selected an article, you need to record the
following so you can properly cite it.
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Author: |
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Title of Journal: |
Volume, year, and page
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EMAILING/PRINTING ARTICLES
EMAILING ARTICLES
IN GENERAL, YOU MAY WANT TO E-MAIL ARTICLES INSTEAD OF PRINTINGIF YOU ARE IN THE LIBRARY, PLEASE EMAIL YOUR ARTICLES INSTEAD OF PRINTING, EXCEPT for PAGE IMAGE FILES.
- Make sure you have the article itself on the screen. Otherwise, you will be emailing yourself a list of citations.
- Click on the Email link above the article,
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It is available on both the top and bottom of the screen. - You may be asked to make certain selections. If you want full text make sure to select "Citation with any Full Text. Enter your Email address where it says Email and do fill the Subject Line with a name that will help you easily recognize the article from your In box.
- click on
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Article will normally reach your In Box within a half hour. Be sure
to check your Spam box, also, just in case it gets sent there, instead.
PRINTING ARTICLES
- Make sure you have the article itself on the screen. Otherwise, you will be printing yourself a list of citations.
- For regular Full text articles, select the print icon
above the article,
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For Page Image files, go to the grey/small toolbar on the upper left,
right above the article and click on the print icon: 
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Make sure you do the latter for Page Image Files, especially if that's
the only full text available! Otherwise, you will only be printing
the abstract! If you have the text of an article and do not see an
icon above you have regular full text. - A print window should appear. Select OK.
PRINTING ON CAMPUS REQUIRES YOU TO HAVE A GO PRINT CARD. COST IS TEN CENTS PER PAGE.
Works Cited by APA, NOT MLA
This assignment asks you to cite materials using the guidelines set by the American Psychological Association (APA). Most of the courses you have here at Chabot usually ask you to cite materials according to the Modern Language Association (MLA). Basically, different disciplines have different guidelines as to how you cite your materials. As this is a Psychology course, it only makes sense to follow the guidelines professional psychologists and scholars use.
There is a separate handout available from Chabot College Library for citing resources by APA, electronically. It is available at: http://tinyurl.com/55org. Be sure to use that handout and NOT the MLA one that says “Works Cited Format (Bibliography)”. More sources on citing by APA are listed below:
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Publication Manual of
the American Psychological Association |
Reserves: BF 76.7 P83
1994 |
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Online Reference Shelf: APA Citation Resources
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Research and
Documentation Online--APA Style: the Social Sciences |
Reference
List: http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/social_sciences/listref.html |
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APA Style: Electronic
References |
Other Resources
Library
Home Page http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/
The selections on the right
side of the screen will lead you to the Library Catalog, databases to Magazine,
Journal & Newspaper Articles and more, handouts to this and other library
orientations, links to quality web sites and to other libraries
How
to use the Library Catalog http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/librarycatalog.html
Tips on how to use the Library
Catalog effectively when searching for books
About
the Library and Its Services http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/libraryinfo.html
Information on Library's
hours, checking out materials, the Student Computer Lab, Audio-Visual Center,
and more!
Psychology
Resources on the Web http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/psych.html
This page will take you to
search engines and portals that search exclusively quality Psychology web
sites.
World
Wide Web Worksheet and Web Evaluation Checklist http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/wwwworksheet.html
http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/abby/evaluation.html
Learn how to search the World
Wide Web effectively and be get clues on how to find good sites vs. the bad!
This handout is also available
at: http://www.chabotcollege.edu/Library/handouts/Psyc2/Hughes.html
This web site was last updated on February
7, 2005.
If you have any questions or want to
suggest any additions, please contact
Norman
Buchwald, Information Literacy and Technology Librarian.
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