INFORMATION LITERACY TUTORIAL

Select lessons from the Information Literacy Tutorial. Lessons are designed to assist you in:

• Selecting and refining a topic
• Developing a research strategy
• Identifying useful reference sources
• Performing efficient searches in the library catalog, databases and web pages
• Understanding and writing citations
• Evaluating information.

INTERNET RESOURCES

Choose Internet resources with a critical eye. When in doubt, assess each site or posting with evaluation criteria.

Selected Web Sites

• Neuroscience in the World-Wide Web Virtual Library
• Neuroscience links from Florida State University

Neuroscience Listservs (identified by Baylor University Libraries)

FINDING BOOKS

Use CONSORT to identify books at Kenyon or another CONSORT partner library (College of Wooster, Denison University and Ohio Wesleyan). If a an item you want to borrow is owned at Kenyon, check the floorplans to find the exact location. If an item is owned by a CONSORT partner, or an OhioLINK partner, request the item online. Guide to requesting items owned by CONSORT or OhioLINK partner.

FINDING ARTICLES

Databases and indexes are collections of citations to articles. Select a database that covers the subject area you are researching. Avoid databases with popular literature (i.e. Article First), if you need to find scholarly articles. Consult the Help and About sections of each database for information about topical coverage and the types of information included. Use lessons in the Information Literacy Tutorial for further suggestions.

Databases

The following databases are collections of citations, some abstracts, and some full-text articles in scholarly literature. For searching tips, read the About and Help screens in each database or contact a librarian.

• PsycINFO (1887 - 1966) (1967 - ) is the primary index of psychological literature. It indexes over 1300 journals, English language books and book chapters, dissertations and technical reports. When it is available, there will be a link on the right of the screen to Retrieve Full Text. If you click on that link, another browser window will open and you will have the option to download the full text of the article. Tips for Searching Historical PsycINFO.
• MedLine (1966 - present) includes information from medical, dental and nursing literature as well as allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology. It indexes over 3,600 journals, plus selected monographs of congresses and symposia (1976-1981).

Selected Print and Online Neuroscience Journals at Kenyon

Off Site Journals

When you find citations to articles in journals that are not owned by Kenyon College nor available online, you must make an Inter Library Loan request. By placing an Inter Library Loan (ILL) request, you are requesting that another library make a photocopy of the article and mail it to Kenyon. It may take 7-10 days for an article to arrive. You will be notified by E-mail when you may pick up the article at the library Circulation Desk. You may request an article online or with a print form, available at Circulation, the InfoDesk or in the ILL office.

REFERENCE TOOLS

Selected reference works you may find helpful:

Encyclopedia

• AccessScience is an online encyclopedia of science and technology. It contains encyclopedia articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates and science news.
• Bartleby's Web Reference Library contains Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th Ed.; The American Heritage® Dictionary, 3rd Ed.; Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, 3rd Ed.; Simpson's Contemporary Quotations; American Heritage® Book of English Usage; Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; Strunk's Elements of Style, Fowler's the King's English, 2nd Ed.; Emily Post's Etiquette; Cambridge History of English & American Literature and Fannie Farmer's Cookbook.
• Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology

Dictionaries

Like subject-specific encyclopedias, specialized dictionaries are useful when beginning research. Scientific terminology is clarified.

• Dictionary of human neuroanatomy/ Martin C. Hirsch. New York : Springer, 1999.
  KEN Main QM451 .H57 1999

Handbooks

• Electromyography/ ed. H.P. Ludin. New York: Elsevier.
  KEN Main RC77.5 .E44 1995
• The handbook of brain theory and neural networks/ ed. Michael A. Arbib. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
  KEN Reference QP363.3 .H36 1995
• Handbook of neurolinguistics/ ed. Brigitte Stemmer, Harry A. Whitaker. San Diego: Academic Press.
  KEN Main QP399 .H36 1998
• Handbook of neuropsychology and aging/ ed. Paul David Nussbaum. New York: Plenum Press
  KEN Main RC451.4.A5 H39 1997
• Handbook of neurodevelopmental and genetic disorders in children / Sam Goldstein, Cecil R. Reynolds, eds. New York: Guilford Press
  KEN Main RJ506.D47 H36 1999

Style Guides

Check with your instructor to find out which style guide to use. Each has a unique format for citing resources.

• Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. 1994. 4th ed. InfoDesk BF76.7.P82 1994 [Citing online sources (from APA) and print resources (from Purdue University Online Writing Lab]

POSTER SESSIONS

These are some resources that can assist you in designing effective poster presentations.

• Designing Effective Posters by Jeff Radel, University of Kansas Medical Center
• "How to prepare a poster" in Title How to write & publish a scientific paper /Robert A. Day. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1994, 4th ed.
  KEN Main T11 .D33 1994
• "Poster presentations" in Scientific papers and presentations/ Martha Davis. San Diego: Academic Press, 1997.
  KEN Main T11 .D324 1997

COURSE GUIDES

Course guides are created for teaching faculty by Library Liaisons upon request.

HELP

LBIS Liaison

Karen Gordon, gordonk@kenyon.edu, serves as the liaison for library and technology needs for the Neuroscience program.

Info Desk

Feel free to stop by, call (740-427-5691)or E-mail (InfoDesk@kenyon.edu)the librarian on duty at the Information Desk. Hours.