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1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Select Psychology. Under Course-Related Materials, click on PSYCH 33, Personal and Social Adjustment

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Today we'll be showing you how to use periodical databases to find articles on specific subjects. It's helpful to know ahead of time that there are two kinds of articles:

Popular articles are written to be understood by broad audiences. Think Time or People Magazine. Popular articles summarize and discuss information from a whole variety of other sources, but they don't use footnotes. The new article is not making a contribution to knowledge with a discipline; it is adding information and commentary to general knowledge.

Scholarly articles are written by people who work or study within the discipline. They are meant to add knowledge or understanding to that field of study. You can usually tell that an article is scholarly if it has footnotes (a bibliography or a works cited list). The footnotes show how, exactly, the new contribution draws on the work of others and adds to what is already known.

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.

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage  If you are at an Information Workstation in the Library, click on the picture of the house near the top of the screen (just right of center). 
2. Click on Full Text Articles [Second icon down on left]
3. 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'll need to type in your library card number] 
4. Click to go to the Advanced search mode, where you can enter more than one variable.
5. Click to limit your search to full text.
6. Type in your terms and hit SEARCH.
   
   

This is a search for full text articles about the assessment of burnout. Using the asterisk ( * ) means that words that begin with those letters will be retrieved -- assessing, assessment, etc.

There are two ways to limit your results to scholarly journal articles:

Once you bring up your results list, you can click to limit to Academic Journals.

You can also limit prior to doing the search.

Search for an article on a topic related to stress that interests you. If you don't have a topic already in mind, try one of these:

When you get a list of results, 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 (look where it says Source)__________________

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vol._____; issue_____; pages______; date of issue___________

If you find a wonderful article, you can print it for free -- we allow free printing 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.

1. Go to the Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles
3. 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_________________________________________

vol._____; issue_____; pages______; date of issue___________

Check to see if the journal is at UCSC.  If it is, you can go to UCSC and copy the article.

You can request  that our library obtain a copy for you using Interlibrary Loan.  Read about Interlibrary Loan Services.  Place Interlibrary Loan requests at the Reference/Instruction Desk in the Library.

1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
3. Under General (top left), click on NetLibrary E-Books

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1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage    <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on Psychology, then on Course-Related Materials
4. Click on PSYCH 33, Personal and Social Adjustment, P. Meyer

P. Meyer and T. N. Smalley 2/07