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Cabrillo
College Library
Patrick
A. Meyer
Find
journal articles
Cite
psych articles
eBooks
Your
textbook's Web site
Share
your thoughts about how the session went |
name_________________________
Bring
up this Web page and make it a Favorite
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From
the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
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Click
on Internet Links
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Select
Psychology. Under Course-Related Materials,
click on HSERV 70, Introduction to Human Aging
- Make this page
a Favorite. Towards the top of your screen, click
then on
Add to Favorites. Whenever you want to come back
to this page in this class, you can find it easily by clicking on
Academic
Search Premier provides information about articles published
in approximately 8,150 periodicals; for 4,500 of those periodicals,
full text copies of the articles are available to you online.
- Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage
- Click on Full
Text Articles [Second icon down on left]
- The next screen
is a list of the databases available to you. Academic Search
Premier is listed under Social Sciences.
[It is also listed under General.] Click to bring
it up. [If you are coming in from off campus, you type in your library
card number.]
- Click on
where you can enter more than one variable at a
time..
- Click to limit
your search to full text
- Type in your
terms and hit SEARCH.
A search for articles on aging and the immune system could look like
this:
Search
for an article on a topic related to this class that interests you.
If you don't have a topic already in mind, try one of these:
| ageism |
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| life-span
perspective |
|
| secondary
aging |
|
When
you get a results list, click on the article title to get full information
about the article.
Note
down basic information about one article you find:
Article author(s)________________________________________
Article title____________________________________________
Periodical title_________________________________________
Date of issue______________________
If
you find a wonderful article or two, you can print out it/them for
free -- we allow free printing during a class period like this in
the classroom of up to 30 or so pages per student. Note that you can
also email these articles to yourself!
Another database
called Psychology and Behavioral Sciences covers about
570 periodicals in psychology and the behavioral sciences. It works
the same as Academic Search Premier.
- Go to the Library
homepage
- Click on Full
Text Articles
- Select Psychology
and Behavioral Science under Social Sciences
Search
using the same topic, or a different one. Note down basic information
about one article you find:
Article author(s)________________________________________
Article title____________________________________________
Periodical title_________________________________________
Date of issue___________
APA Style for
Citing Articles (and other materials, including electronic resources
Style
guides are available on the Library's Internet Links page, e.g.,
Using
APA Format, from Purdue University. I'm also giving you a handout.
eBooks
-- The library has about 15,000 electronic books available online
through NetLibrary. To get to them:
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Go
to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
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Click
on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
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Under
General (top left), click on NetLibrary
E-Books
Search on a
topic of your choice. Use quotation marks to keep words in phrases
together, e.g., "average longevity."
What did you
find?
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
You can use
these from home; you just need your library card number.
Your textbook
has a Web
site full of tutorials, quizzes, and other helpful study aids.
Before you
go, please share
your thoughts about how this session went for you.
Thanks!!
To
get to this page on the Internet
- Go to the Cabrillo
College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
- Click on Internet
Links
- Click on Psychology,
then on Course-Related Materials
- Click on HSERV
70, Introduction to Human Aging
P. Meyer and T.
N. Smalley 9/07 |
