APPL 632
Research Methods
Tom Mitchell
Fall 2005

Individual course index / APPL632_mitchell_fa05

Introduction | Print Resources | Subject-specific databases | General databases
Book catalogs | Suggested Websites | Additional Websites | General Reference Tools
Other helpful information

Introduction:
This guide will provides information on locating and accessing print and online resources from Langsdale Library. To help us improve our instruction session, please complete this evaluation.

For questions,email us at langref@ubalt.edu or phone us at (410) 837-4274.

Print Resources:
(For additional psychology resources, see our Psychology Guide

American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.). Washington, DC: Author. (XRC 455.2 .C4 D545 2000)

Annual Review of Psychology (1953 to present). Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews. (XBF 30 .A56)

Groth-Marnat, G. (1997). Handbook of psychological assessment (3rd ed.). New York: Wiley.
(XBF 176 .G76 1997)

Hersen, M. (2004). Comprehensive handbook of psychological assessement (Vols. 1-4). Hoboken, NJ: J. Wiley & Sons. (XBF176 .C654 2004)

Kadzin, A. E. (Ed.). (2000). Encyclopedia of psychology (Vols. 1-8). New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. (XBF 31 .E523 2000)

Keyser, D. J., & Sweetland, R. C. (Eds.) (1994). Test critiques (Vols. 1, 2, 9, 10). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. (XBF 176 .T419 1994)

Maddox, T. (Ed.) (1997). Tests: A Comprehensive reference for assessments in Psychology, Education, and Business (4th ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed. (XBF 176 .T43 1997)

Murphy, L. L., Impara, J. C., & Plake, B. S. Plake (Eds.). (1999). Tests in print: An index to tests, test reviews, and the literature on specific tests (5th ed., Vols. 1-2). Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements. (XBF 698.5 .B878 1999) (Older editions located in XZ 5814 .E9B8)

Nicol, A. A. M. (2003). Displaying your findings: A practical guide for creating figures, posters, and presentations. Washington: American Psychological Association. (XBF 76.8 N53 2003)

Plake, B. S. & Impara, J. C.(Eds.). (2001). Mental measurements yearbook (14th ed. Lincoln, NE: Buros Institute of Mental Measurements, 2001. (XZ 5814 .P8 .B94 2001). Earlier editions are owned also.

Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.).(2001). Washington: American Psychological Assn. (XBF 76.7 .P83 2001) READY REFERENCE.

Reed, J. G. & Baxter, P. M. (2003). Library use: A handbook for psychology (3rd ed). Washington DC: American Psychological Association. (XBF 76.8 .R43 2003)

Subject-specific databases (this only includes selected databases based on topics; for more, see full list of Electronic Databases):

ABI Inform [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Indexes more than 1,300 journals on business, management, with 75% full-text.

PsycINFO  [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1887 – present. Indexes 1,300 Psychology journals from nearly 50 countries. Also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters. Same coverage as PsycLit.

PsycARTICLES [on campus]
This database provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1987 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 35,000 full-text articles from 49 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.

PsycBooks (EBSCO) [on-campus]
A database of more than 10,000 chapters in PDF from over 600 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers.
Coverage: The database includes most scholarly titles published by APA from copyright years 1953 - 2004. It also includes 100 out-of-print books, an additional 70+ classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology, and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology

PsycExtra (EBSCO) [on-campus]
Description: a bibliographic and full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. The document types included in PsycEXTRA consist of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more.
Coverage: This database complements PsycINFO and the other APA databases with extensive coverage of gray literature relating to psychology and related fields and contains nearly 53,000 records, with over 30,000 additional records added annually.

Criminal Justice Abstracts [on-campus]
Coverage:  1968 - present. Criminal Justice Abstracts indexes the major journals, books and governmental reports in the areas of criminology and related disciplines. Topics include crime trends, corrections, police, offenders, juvenile delinquency, courts, victims, and sentencing.

Criminal Justice Periodicals[on campus]
1981 to the present: Full-text coverage for 45 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers, and complete indexing and abstracts for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals.

Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts from Proquest) [on-campus]
Coverage 1861 – present. Indexes U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. A 24 page preview of dissertations published since 1997 is available. The full text of dissertations may be obtained by clicking the free download button.

ERIC (EBSCO) [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1966 - present. Indexes Current Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE). Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

Health Source Plus (nursing edition) [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Searchable full-text for nearly 580 journals and abstracts and indexing for over 615 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Now includes Clinical Reference Systems. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

Medline [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1966 – present. Indexes/abstracts more than 3,200 journals from the biomedical field.

Soc Index with full text (Ebsco) [on-campus]
This index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as over 1,390 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included.

General/Multidisciplinary databases:
Use these to find full text periodical articles and/or citations to articles. Click here to see how these databases are different from the Internet.

Lexis-Nexis Academic [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals.  Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes, case law and legal journals.

Academic Search Premier  [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

Book catalogs:
Use these to locate books, journals (not individual articles), videos, and government documents.

Catalog USMAI [help]
Books, journals, government documents and other materials in the University System of Maryland, including UB. You may search up to six individual locations or the entire system.

WorldCat [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. International database of collections (including books, journals , dissertations, documents, and other materials) held by libraries worldwide. Maryland libraries that own copies of the items display at the top of the list of libraries so you can easily determine if local libraries own the material needed. Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

Suggested websites:
These may provide useful information or agencies or organizations who may be sources of information.

American Counseling Association http://www.counseling.org/

American Psychoanalytic Association. http://apsa.org/

American Psychoanalytic Association. On-Line Search Facility for the Jourlit/Bookrev Databases. http://apsa.org/lit/index.htm

American Psychological Association. http://www.apa.org/

American Psychological Association. Division 5: Evaluation, Measurement, & Statistics http://www.apa.org/divisions/div5/

APA Style: Electronic Reference. http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

Library Research in Psychology: Finding it Easily. http://www.apa.org/science/lib.html

Archives of General Psychiatry. http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/

Plous, Scott. Social Psychology Network. http://www.socialpsychology.org/

The Society for Industrial and and Organizational Psychology (SIOP). http://www.siop.org

Additional websites by subject:

Langsdale web resources
A listing of valuable internet sites by subject area.

General reference tools:
These may assist you in your search for material or in evaluating and citing material found.

Full-text Periodical List
Provides a listing of database locations for print and online periodicals accessible through Langsdale Library.

Research Guides
Series of subject bibliographies and tutorials

Evaluating Web Resources
Guide to evaluating material obtained via the Internet

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet - JHU Sheridan Libraries
http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/

Citation Styles
Guides to MLA, APA, and other citation styles.

How to Cite Sources: APA Style
Detailed examples of cited works in APA style.

Other helpful information:

Accessing materials from home (Researchport)

Library barcodes and UB computer accounts

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

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