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Class Handouts ~ PSYC425 Dr. Burling
Objective:
The library research component of PSYC 425 teaches the skills necessary to locate and access appropriate professional literature, including research articles and data to describe a specific psychological brain disorder, disease or function.
Students enrolled in PSYC425 are expected to successfully complete a Literature Review and a research paper from the professional literature via scholarly (academic) databases listed below. Given the level of this class, students are required to utilize these resources. .
Contact Mrs. Kathleen Lowe, Reference and Instruction Librarian 665-6109 or lowek@montevallo.edu for additional assistance.
Literature Review
- University of Washington: Writing a Psychology Literature Review (PDF document)
- University of Toronto Writing Center: The Literature Review: A Few Tips on Conducting It
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center: Review of Literature Guidelines
- 2 books on Reserve at the Circulation Desk located on the Main floor of the library. Ask for the Psyc 425 books on reserve. Undergraduate Writing in Psychology and Writing Literature Reviews.
Sources for Literature Review and Research paper
Interlibrary Loan
Free Service. Use this when library doesn't have the
journal or book you need
Library Catalog
Search the library catalog for the journal or
book you need. Check the catalog before you use
Interlibrary Loan!
Encyclopedias (see
list below)
Sources for literature review and research paper
The following databases will link you
to journal articles in professional peer-reviewed
(scholarly) journals.
Begin your search with
PsycINFO
and PsycArticles.
This is a
senior level course and students should know how
to use these two databases.
PsycINFO
Use the Excellent thesaurus. To search PsycINFO
effectively, you should begin your search with
the thesaurus. 97 percent of the covered
material is peer-reviewed. The database also
includes information about the psychological
aspects of related fields such as medicine,
psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education,
pharmacology, physiology, linguistics,
anthropology, business, law and others. Journal
coverage, which spans 1887 to present. includes
citations of chapters in books and citations to
dissertations.
PsycArticles
American Psychological Association
(APA), is a definitive source of full-text,
peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles
in psychology. The database contains more than
45,000 articles from 57 journals - 46 published
by the American Psychological Association (APA)
and 11 from allied organizations. It includes
all journal articles, letters to the editor and
errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to
present.
PubMed
The
PubMed database comprises more than 19 million
citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE
and life science journals. Citations may include
links to full-text articles from PubMed Central
or publisher web sites.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
(Ebsco Host)
Academic Search Premier (limit to peer
reviewed scholarly sources)
Google
Scholar (not a lot of full text)
DOI Document Object Identifier
Definition and
purpose of DOI
APA Recommendations on use of DOI in a citation
APA: Frequently
Asked Question about APA Style
Get answers about APA citation straight from the source
APA Style Manual 6th edition (3 copies on Main Floor of library)
Ref. BF 76.7 .P83 2010
Time Management. Locating the sources required for your Literature Review may involve asking another library for material. Often it takes weeks to receive the sources you request. Please work with Mrs. Kathy Lowe or another librarian early on in your research to assure that material you request from another library arrives in a timely manner.
Mrs. Lowe lowek@montevallo.edu
Print Psychology
Journals in Carmichael Library
The following journals are
available in print (unbound or bound) in the Library. Some of the titles
listed below are available in
PsycARTICLES, or another one of our full
text databases.
Consult
the Library catalog for exact holding
information.
American Journal of Psychiatry
American Journal of Psychology
Cognitive Development
Cognitive Psychology
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
Journal of Clinical Psychology
Omega: Journal of Death and Dying
Psychological Reports
Contains records of library materials worldwide. If a book you’re looking for is not available in our Library, consult WorldCat as well as the guidelines for Interlibrary Loan.
Books in the Library can provide a wide variety of valuable information to the student of psychology. Use the Library Catalog to search the subject headings appropriate to your topic.
Journals you need for your research could be full text and available from the Library. Always check the Library catalog first to see if we have the journal before you fill out an ILL request.
Google Smarter
Government and non-profit organizations
sometime provide appropriate background
information about brain disorders.
Limiting your Google search to .gov or .org may help you find the better sources. Avoid the .com sites
Example Google search:
Alzheimer's site: .gov
corpus callosotomy site:.gov
traumatic brain injury site:.gov
Provide an overview or definition of a topic as well as indicate terms that may be useful when searching in the Library catalog or one of the Library's specialized databases. Below are several titles that could be consulted prior to your search. You may find other reference books useful as well.
- Craighead, W. E. (2001). The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. New York: Wiley. (Ref BF31 .E52 2001) [4 vol. set].
- Kazdin, A. E., ed. (2000). Encyclopedia of Psychology. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association; Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. (Ref BF31.E52 2000).
- Wilson, R. A. and Keil, F. C., eds. (1999). The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Cambridge, MA. : MIT Press. (Ref BF311 .M556 1999).
- Winn, Philip, ed. (2001). Dictionary of Biological Psychology. London and New York: Routledge. (Ref QP360 .D52 2001).
- Ramachandran, V. S., ed. (2002) . Encyclopedia of the Human Brain. San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press c2002. (Ref QP376 .E586 2002) [4 vol. set]
- Turkington, C. (2002). Encyclopedia of the Brain and Brain Disorders. New York : Facts on File. (Ref QP376 .T87 2002).
- Kent, Raymond D., ed. (2004). The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders. Cambridge, MA., London, England: MIT Press. (Ref RC423 .M56 2004).
- Doctor, R. M. and Kahn, A. P. (2000). The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties. New York: Facts on File. (Ref RC535 .D63 2000).
- Noll, R. (2000). The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders. New York: Facts on File. (Ref RC514. N63 2000).
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition Text Revision DSM-IV-TR. (2000). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. (Ref RC 455.2 .C4 D54 2000).
Books on a specific brain disorder may not be available in our library; however these brain disorders will be discussed in encyclopedias and handbooks found in the Library's reference section. See list of encyclopedias above.
Job outlook for Psychologists
From the Occupational Outlook
Handbook
Getting Into Grad
School
APA site
Graduate Study in Psychology 2009 (Main Floor of the Library)
Ref. BF 77 .G73 2009
Compiled by Kathleen Lowe 10-10
