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 or contact a librarian for further suggestions.

Databases

• PsycINFO (1967 - ) Primary index of psychological literature.
  Historical PsycINFO (1887-1966) | Tips for Searching Historical PsycINFO

• Medline (1966-) (1997-) Medline 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.
• ISI Citation Indexes (1980 - ) General and Cited reference searches to scholarly articles. Tutorial.
• Academic Search Premier (1965- ) An interdisciplinary index, Academic Search Premier includes citations and abstracts for over 4,300 popular and academic periodicals. The full text of many of the articles indexed is available.
• Index to Journal Articles Provides access to the Social Sciences Index (1983-), the Humanities Index (1984-), the Art Index (1983-), the General Science Index (1984-), and the Readers' Guide to Periodicals (1983- ).

Selected Psychology 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. 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. Request an article online.

INTERNET RESOURCES

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

Selected Web Sites

• Kenyon College Department of Psychology
• American Psychological Society.
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Report Collection: Full-text collection of unclassified, unlimited documents associated with defense research and basic sciences including biological and medical sciences; environmental pollution and control; behavioral and social sciences; and patents and patent applications.
• Harvard World Health News. Articles on public health and related issues in digest form with links to complete stories.
• Internet Public Library: Psychology
• "PsychCrawler® is a product of the American Psychological Association created to provide quick access to quality content in the field of psychology. This product is under rapid development and will be adding many new sites."
• PsycNET from the American Psychological Association.

Psychology Listservs

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.

REFERENCE TOOLS

Encyclopedias

Subject-specific encyclopedias are excellent tools to consult when beginning a research project. Entries will explain critical vocabulary, scientists and experimental methods. Entries may also help to identify broader and narrower fields of study.

• 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.
• Encyclopedia of psychology. Alan E. Kazdin, ed. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2000.
  KEN Reference BF31 .E52 2000 v.1-8
• Encyclopedia of stress. George Fink, ed. San Diego, Ca. : Academic Press, 2000.
  KEN Reference BF575.S75 E52 2000 v.1-3
• Encyclopedia of human emotions. David Levinson, ed. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 1999.
• Encyclopedia of violence, peace, & conflict. Lester Kurtz, ed. London : Academic Press, 1999.
  KEN Reference HM281 .E625 1999 v.1-3
• The Encyclopedia of mental health. Howard S. Friedman, ed. San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, 1998.
  KEN Reference RA790 .E57 1998 v.1-3
• The Gale encyclopedia of childhood & adolescence. Jerome Kagan, ed. Detroit : Gale Research, 1998.
  KEN Reference HQ772 .G27 1998
• The Cambridge encyclopedia of human growth and development. Stanley J. Ulijaszek, Francis E. Johnston, Michael Preece, eds. New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  KEN Reference QP84 .C26 1998
• Concise encyclopedia of psychology. Raymond J. Corsini and Alan J. Auerbach, eds. New York : J. Wiley, 1998. 2nd ed.
  KEN Reference BF31 .C67 1998

Dictionaries

Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology

Style Guides

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

PSYCHOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS

Occasionally, you may need to identify and secure a psychological test. The following resources may be useful.

• HAPI - Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides descriptions of qualitative and quantitative instruments, including tests, measures, scales, interview forms, and questionnaires. Information is drawn from journals covering health, psychology, and the behavioral sciences.
  Information Center CD-ROM.
• Mental Measurements Yearbook is a printed reference source of citations, descriptions and reviews of published tests. Guide to using the Mental Measurements Yearbook.
  KEN Ref BF431 .M438
• Directory of Unpublished Experimental Mental Measures
  KEN Ref BF431 .D57 1996
• Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences is a free, online index to measures available in common compilations volumes, from the Health Sciences Library at the University of Texas at Arlington.

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.

COURSE GUIDES

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

HELP

LBIS Liaison

Karen Gordon, gordonk@kenyon.edu, 740-427-5707, serves as the liaison for library and technology needs for the Psychology department.

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.