Cabrillo College Library  

Patrick A. Meyer

Find journal articles

APA Citations

eBooks

 


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Bring up this Web page and make it a Favorite (I may have already done this for you)
  1. From the Cabrillo College Library homepage
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Select Psychology. Under Course-Related Materials, click on HSERV 52
  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

FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES 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 Advanced Search where you can enter more than one variable at a time --



  5. Click to limit your search to full text as shown here. You can also click to limit your search to scholarly journal articles.

  6. Type in your terms and hit SEARCH.

    A search for articles about the social work with adolescents could look like this --

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

Your turn!! 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:

counselor effectiveness resistent clients
helping interview verbal response skills

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 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. Or, you could choose to 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_________________________________________

Date of issue___________

This class uses APA (American Psychological Association) style for citing articles (and other materials, including electronic resources).

Remember that when you use an EBSCOhost database (e.g., Academic Search Premier or Psychology and Behavioral Sciences), you can click on the "cite this article" image to get the article cited in a variety of styles.

full text

For book citations, find your book in WorldCat at  http://worldcat.org/ and then click on Cite this item. For example,

full text

Style guides are available on the Library's Internet Links page, e.g., Using APA Format, from Purdue University.

eBooks -- The library has about 18,000 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.

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 52, Introduction to Counseling and Case Management.

P. Meyer and T. N. Smalley 2/09