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How to get to this page on the Internet

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Bring up this Web page and make it a Favorite
  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Select Psychology. Under Course-Related Materials, click on HSERV 51, G. West
  4. 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.

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage 
  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 type in your library card number to gain access.
  4. Click on where you can enter more than one term at a time.
  5. Click to limit your search to full text as shown here:

  6. Type in your terms and hit SEARCH.

    A search for articles on cultural sensitivity in counseling 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:

cultural competence deficit model as it applies to families
needs of immigrant families home visits

When you get a list of results, click on an article title to get full information about it.

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 25 to 30 or so pages per student.

Note that you can also email these articles to yourself! Look for this towards the top of your screen--

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_________________________________________

Date of issue___________


Ethnic NewsWatch covers newspapers, magazines and journal articles from ethnic, minority and native presses; interdisciplinary.

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Full Text Articles (second icon down on left)
  3. Under News (top right), click on Ethnic NewsWatch

Search using the same topic, or a different one. Notice that once you get search results, Ethnic NewsWatch will suggest topics to you. This can be a big help!

Note down basic information about one article you find:

Article author(s)________________________________________

Article title____________________________________________

Periodical title_________________________________________

Date of issue___________

You can also email these articles. Nifty!

Books -- Regular print books: To identify books in the library on your topic, from the library homepage, click on Library Catalog.

eBooks -- The library has about 15,000 electronic books available online through NetLibrary. To get to them:

  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

Search on a topic of your choice. Use quotation marks to keep words in phrases together, e.g., "active listening."

What did you find?

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You can use these from home; you just need your library card number.

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.

To get to this page on the Internet

  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 HSERV 51, Practices in the Human Services

G. West and T. N. Smalley 2/08