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Psychology

Psychology resources introduction and how-to screencast

Sections of the 41 minute screencast:

0:55 Getting to library website and connecting with help
1:20 How to find the library website
1:38 How to find research and writing assistance, in person and virtual
3:00 Overview of information and links on library website
4:21 Introduction to Research Guides
5:21 Description of Psychology Research Guide and information under tabs
9:00 Detailed description of the PsycINFO database
11:05 Discussion of peer review
12:06 PsycINFO Advanced Search features (Here's a lot of the how-to!)
13:20 Sample search conducted in PsycINFO with search strategies
16:21 Narrowing search results
18:00 Understanding records in PsycINFO
19:30 Saving records in PscyINFO and email
19:58 Opening the full text of articles
20:39 Information on DOI (Digital Object Identifiers)
20:48 Understanding peer reviewed articles
22:39 How to find full text if not in the database
23:00 Interlibrary loan
23:30 Getting citation information from PsycInfo
24:22 Getting permalinks
24:50 Emailing citations from the database
26:20 Getting information on tests/instruments
27:35 Searching for information on tests in PsycINFO
29:00 Sage Database and searching strategies
31:12 Boolean Searching
32:04 Retrieving articles in Sage
33:44 Using OneSearch
35:50 Google Scholar
36:33 Setting up Library Links in Google Scholar
39:00 Summing up the video content
40:00 Interlibrary Loan
40:15 Conclusion

Video created by librarian M. Filkins in Fall 2023