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Psychology Dept. homepage

Find journal articles

Get a copy if it's not fulltext online

Cite psych articles

The fun stuff

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 PSYCH 2
4. Make this page a Favorite. Towards the top of your screen, click on then on Add Whenever you want to come back to this page during this class session, you can find it easily by clicking on

1. You have been given information about a journal article. You are going to use a periodicals database called Academic Search Premier to retrieve a copy of the journal article. If you already have a copy of the article, you don't need to do this step.
   
   
2. Next, you are going to identify 5 additional scholarly journal articles about the research topic. The additional articles may not be ones listed in the original article's bibliography.

Open up a Word document and cut and paste your bibliographic information as you find it. Alternatively, there is room towards the end of this handout for your to write down the bibliographic information you find.

Academic Search Premier provides information about articles published in approximately 8,030 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 get access using your library card number] 
   
4. Click to go to the Advanced search mode, where you can enter more than one variable.

Need a copy of the original article about which you have been given information? Type in the first part of the article title; on the next line, type in an author's name and limit that search to Authors. For example, if my article were Tempermental Qualities at Age Three Predict Personality Traits in Young Adulthood, by A. Caspi, my search could look like this:

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

You can print out the article, if you need to, for free -- we allow free printing in the classroom up to 30 or so pages per student. You can also email these articles to yourself!

Now you are going to look for 5 other articles on the same topic that are not already cited in the bibliography of your original article.

There are several ways you can go about this -- try most of these strategies.

1. Many (most?) articles in Academic Search Premier will be cited by some other articles in the database. Articles cite each other when they are on similar topics. Click to see who is citing your article.

2. Look at the subject terms assigned to your article. Click to search on one or more of them.

3. Click on Find More Like This. This is a new feature and doesn't always work, but it's worth a try!

4. Start a new search. Use the Advanced Search mode. Limit to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals and Full Text.

Other databases that might be useful

• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Go to the Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles, and select it under Social Sciences. It works the same as Academic Search Premier.
  
  
• MEDLINE Go to Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles, and select it under Health & Medicine. Be sure to limit your search to full text. (MEDLINE is the world's largest database for Medicine. If you don't limit to full text, you'll retrieve a lot of articles that are not available to you full text.)

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

The Fun Stuff

These resources don't apply especially to PSYCH 2 -- but I think you'll probably want to know about them.

• Blinkx is a place for all kinds of good quality videos. Not YouTube quality. Good quality. See if you can find a video about the psychology of markets (certainly a hot topic these days!).
• MediaScrape  provides access to news from all over the world. Often in English. Really. Can you find news stories out of Kenya about conditions there today?
• Electronic books Cabrillo College library has about 18,000 + electronic books now. Across all topics. Good academic titles. To get to them -- 1) Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage http://libwww.cabrillo.edu 2) Click on Full Text Articles 3) Under General (top left) click on Net Library E-Books. If you are coming in from off campus, just type in your library card number and you're there!
• GoogleBooks lets you search inside of books! Search for some specific topic, or use the name of someone somewhat famous, or just type in "research methods in psychology." Not all the books are available cover to cover, but millions of them are! This is a growing, fabulous resource. Not to be left behind, Microsoft is digitizing books -- go to books.live.com. Incredible!
• For maps and satellite views, go to maps.live.com and type in an address. Choose Aerial view. Is there a Bird's eye view? Wow!
• Google Maps Type in your address. Go to satellite and/or hybrid view. Personally, I like maps.live.com better than Google maps.
• Google Scholar When Google crawls the Web and thinks it has run across a journal article (there's an algorithm to detect that there is a volume number, page numbers, etc.), then it throws what it finds into Google Scholar. Millions of articles. Not all available full text, but a growing wonderful resource. Not to be outdone, of course, Microsoft has Live Search Academic. Pretty amazing.

Have you seen the video of the surfer riding waves formed by glaciers melting in Alaska?

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 2

D. Douglass and T. N. Smalley 
2/98; last rev. 2/08