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Guide to Psychology Resources Psychology Resources Red Rocks Library Resources:  Books Major Reference Books
* Online Reference Works
* Ebooks Print Periodicals
* Online Periodicals VideosWorld Wide Web Resources: Web Sites for PSY 101/102 Web Sites for PSY 235 Other Psychology Web Sites PubMed & PubMed Central Web Searching Using Google* Resources marked with an asterisk (*) can be accessed from off campus using a student number (students) or library card number (staff). For more information on off campus access see the Online Subscription Services page or contact the library. For more information on the Red Rocks psychology program, visit their department web site. Note: Most links on this page open a new browser window. Red Rocks Library Resources Books Back to Top of Page Red Rocks library books on various aspects of psychology are listed in the library's web catalog by author, title, subject, and other keywords appearing in online tables of content, summaries, etc. The best way to find books on a subject is to perform a keyword search using word(s) describing your subject. To see examples of searching the library catalog, click on the appropriate link below to see keyword searches on nature and nuture or antisocial personality disorders. When you are in the catalog you can change your search at the bottom of any title list or full record page. Red Rocks Library general collection books can be checked out by students for three weeks using a student ID card available from Student Life or a Red Rocks Library card available from the library. Reference books cannot be checked out. Major Reference Books Back to Top of PageUseful information on psychology can be found in encyclopedias and dictionaries. Click on a link below to see more information about the reference book listed. When you are in the catalog you can change your search at the bottom of any title list or full record page. Click on the below link to see a list of encyclopedias and dictionaries in the area of psychology. Most of these are reference books. Red Rocks Library reference books cannot be checked out. Pages from them can be copied for 10 cents per page. Online Reference Works Back to Top of Page* AccessScience, the online equivalent of the 20-volume McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, contains information on psychology and psychiatry. You can search search AccessScience for words and phrases using the search window or view a list of articles and other information in the topical list for ** Psychology & Psychiatry. (** To use this link to access the Psychology & Psychiatry section of AccessScience from off campus, click <here>, log in to the resource using your student number, click the browser back button twice to return to this page, then click on the above search.) The * Oxford Reference Online Premium service is a collection of over 140 reference titles from Oxford University Press, including the ** A Dictionary of Psychology by Andrew Colman. (** To access this resource from off campus, click <here>, log in to the resource using your student number, click the browser back button twice to return to this page, then click on the link to Dictionary of Psychology.) * Gale Virtual Reference Library includes two titles in the area of psychology. (** To access Child Development or Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology from off campus, click <here>, log in to the resource using your student number, click the browser back button twice to return to this page, then click on the link to the title.) Ebooks Back to Top of PageNetLibrary Red Rocks Library * NetLibrary ebooks are listed in the Red Rocks catalog by author, title, and subject. They can be identified by the term E-BOOK to the right of the title in a screen of titles. Ebooks can be browsed online for about 20 minutes without a Red Rocks NetLibrary account or can be checked out (reserved for your exclusive use) for 24 hours with a Red Rocks NetLibrary account. You can access the Red Rocks NetLibrary ebook collection from anywhere, including home, using your Red Rocks NetLibrary account. See the library's Ebooks page for more information on accessing ebooks and creating a Red Rocks NetLibrary account. Click on a link below to search the Red Rocks catalog for ebooks on the indicated subject. To view the NetLibrary ebook, click on the link in the URL area at the bottom of the full record for an ebook. Print Periodicals Back to Top of Page The Red Rocks Library subscribes to about 300 newspapers, magazines, and journals kept on shelves in the periodicals areas. Some titles in psychology, along with an indications of the library's print and microfilm holdings of each title, are listed below. Titles having current holdings usually have about a year's worth of issues in the periodical stacks. In some cases, as indicated below, the library has indexing and/or full text of articles in these periodicals in the online periodical databases * EBSCOHost Academic Search Premier (ASP) or * FirstSearch ArticleFirst (FSAF). Title Holdings Online Database (if any) American Journal Of Orthopsychiatry Current Indexed in ASP American Journal Of Psychiatry Current Indexed in ASP American Psychologist Current Indexed in ASP Behavior Therapy Current Indexed in ASP Brainwork: The Neuroscience Newsletter Current Child Development 3/74 - (Microfilm) Full Text in ASP Current Psychology Current Full Text in ASP Journal Of Abnormal Psychology Current Indexed in ASP Psychology Today 5/67 - 12/89 and 1/92 - (Microfilm) Full Text in ASP Young Children 11/78 - (Microfilm) Indexed in FSAF Individual articles on psychology topics in these and other Red Rocks Library print periodicals can be found by searching the library's EBSCOHost and other online periodical databases. The online periodical indexes are listed under Articles on the Online Services Guide. A complete list of the library's print periodical subscriptions can be found at the Print Periodicals page. A list of print periodicals organized by subject area (including Psychology) can be found at the Print Periodicals by Subject Area page. Online Periodicals Back to Top of Page The Red Rocks Library has full text articles from over 8,000 newspapers, magazines, and journals in its online * EBSCOHost, * ProQuest, and * ELibrary periodical databases. These databases contain thousands of individual articles on psychology topics. The databases are listed on the Online Services Guide. A complete list of online full text titles can be found at the Full Text Internet Periodicals By Title page. In addition to the print periodicals listed in the section above, Academic Search Premier contains many full text titles containing articles related to psychology, including many that appear in scholarly (or peer reviewed) journals. Click <here> to view a list of Academic Search Premier psychology titles that have full text articles. Click on the link below to search Academic Search Premier for full text peer reviewed articles longer than three pages having the word autism in the title, abstract, or subject of the articles. By default the results of searches in Academic Search Premier and other EBSCOHost databases are sorted by date with the newest articles listed first. You can rearrange results by Relevance, Source, and Author by clicking to the right of the Sort By window. Other full text article databases that have articles on psychology are * EBSCOHost Business Source Premier, * EBSCOHost Professional Development Collection, and * ELibrary, each of which can be searched specifically for peer reviewed journal articles. These and other articles databases can be accessed from the library's Online Services Guide. See Citing Web Resources for information on how to cite articles you find in Academic Search Premier, other online databases and resources, or in print using American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines. Videos Back to Top of Page Videos on psychology topics are listed in the Red Rocks library catalog by title, subject, and words in summaries of videos. They can be identified by a call number in the form "VH-" (or "VHC-" for Health Careers videos) on the right side of the screen in a listing of titles. Red Rocks library videos cannot be checked out of the library by students but can be viewed within the library. You will need an ID to leave at the circulation desk while you have the video. Click on the link below to search the Red Rocks web catalog for videos containing the word psychology in their catalog record. When you are in the web catalog you can change your search at the bottom of any title list or full record page. The library also maintains a separate listing of Psychology Videos which lists more videos than the web catalog since some videos on psychology topics do not contain the word psychology. World Wide Web Resources Web Sites for PSY 101/102 Back to Top of PageWeb Sites for PSY 235 Back to Top of PageOther Psychology Web Sites Back to Top of PagePubMed & PubMed Central Back to Top of PagePubMed is the freely accessible online version of the U.S. government's Medline database, containing indexing, abstracts, and in some cases links to the free online full text of articles in all areas of medicine appearing in over 3,500 worldwide medical journals, including many journals and articles in psychiatry and psychology. Click on the below link to search PubMed for articles on "autistic disorder" in PubMed with free online full text. Since retrieved articles are displayed in inverse chronological order, you can rerun a PubMed search periodically to see new articles added to the PubMed database showing at the top of the results list. PubMed Central is a digital archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). It hosts freely accessible articles covering all areas of medicine appearing in almost 200 medical journals. Click on the below link to search PubMed Central for articles on "autism". Web Searching Using Google Back to Top of PageGoogle Web Search - Indexes over 3 billion web page, including many web pages about topics in psychology. Web pages may vary in quality. Focus on educational institution, government agency, or non-profit professional organization web pages which tend to provide higher quality information by entering .edu, .gov, or .org, respectively, in the domain window in Google's Advanced Search. See fewer results by using exact phrases in Google's Advance Search. Click on the links below to see examples of searching Google for web pages on autism. When you are at Google you can change your search by entering new words or phrases in the Google Search window at the top of every Google screen. Another useful technique to find high quality medical articles, reports, and other documents on the web is to search Google for .pdf (portable document file) documents which are frequency used by educational institutions, governmental agencies, and non-profit organizations to place these types of material on web sites. Click on the link below to see an example of searching Google for .pdf documents on the web dealing with autism. You can also combine file type and web site type in a Google search, as in the following example that searches for .pdf documents on .edu web sites for the "autism". Google also lets you search specific web sites for topics. For example, click on the link below to search for information on autism in the APA Monitor. Google Scholar Search - Google Scholar broadly searches for scholarly literature. Google Scholar searches across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. A special feature is a link to citations (if any) for each items found. For example, click on the link below to search for information on autism in Google Scholar. Google News Search - Indexes news stories from over 4,000 newspapers worldwide, including many stores about topics in psychology. Stories may stay available online for a few days to a few weeks. Click on the link below to search Google News for news about autism. When you are at Google you can change your search by entering new words or phrases in the Google Search window at the top of every Google News screen. intsites/psychsites.html 3/9/06 |
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