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Statistics Sources for the Study of Psychology
This subject guide contains links to library and other resources that can be used in your research studies. Access to many of these resources requires a computer that is part of the Yale network. Access can also be obtained by means of the Remote Authentication Proxy Server.
Catalogs are some of the primary discovery tools in a library. A local catalog (such as Orbis) enables a library user to determine what items are in a library's collection and where those items are housed. Another type of catalog is a union catalog. A union catalog is a "catalog of catalogs" and contains library holdings information for all the libraries (academic, public and private) that contribute information to the union catalog.
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Other Selected Resources Dictionaries are books dealing with individual words of a language so as to set forth their orthography, pronunciation, signification, and use, their synonyms, deviation, and history among other facts. Dictionaries can be general or subject specific. Encyclopedias are works that contain information on all branches of knowledge or treat comprehensively a particular branch of knowledge, usually in articles arranged alphabetically by subject. Both types of reference materials provide ideas for developing a search term list and strategy. Indexes, such as periodical indexes, allow you to search for articles published in a periodical or journal title. Some of the indexes listed here also permit the retrieval of the full text of a given article. Please note that an index and a catalog are not the same type of discovery tool. A catalog allows you to determine if a periodical or journal title is part of a library's collection. An index allows you to search for a particular article within a periodical or journal title. Electronic journals devoted to the study of Psychology. Internet sites that offer statistics information. A collection of resources that are useful tools for paper composition. Subject guides provide a web or print listing of reference and associated research materials on a given subject.
EUREKA offers easy-to-use online access to a wide array of databases, including the Research Libraries Group's RLIN bibliographic database of more than 22 million titles. Use EUREKA to uncover a wealth of resources in almost any area of study, or to locate items in specific libraries and research collections. EUREKA provides catalog records for books, journals, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films, archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries, as well as museums, archives and historical societies. All searches may be easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to you. Use the REQUEST Button in Eureka to request items that Yale does not own through Interlibrary Loan. If you don't find a particular item in Eureka, try WorldCat.
Orbis, the Yale University Library's online public access catalog, contains entries for titles the Library has acquired. Orbis provides circulation information for all items as well as holdings information for most journal titles. For help using Orbis, see the Guide to Using Orbis.
StatCat (formerly the Social Science Data Archive Catalog) includes information about numeric datasets in the Yale Social Science Data Archive, as well as datasets available in the Yale University Library and on the Internet.
WorldCat is the Online Computer Library Center's (OCLC) online "union catalog"; that is, its database of over 50 million records of books and other materials held in thousands of academic, public, special and national libraries around the world. Use WorldCat to locate materials outside of Yale, in almost any area of study, or to locate items in specific libraries and research collections. WorldCat provides catalog records for books, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films, archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries, as well as museums, archives and historical societies. All searches may be easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to you.
Britannica Online includes the following:
Britannica.com is a free knowledge and learning center for current affairs. Users can simultaneously search the encyclopedia, reviews of the Web sites, articles from leading magazines, and related books. Britannica.com includes the complete, updated Encyclopædia Britannica, selected articles from more than 70 of the world's top magazines--including Newsweek, Discover, and The Economist, a guide to the Web sites includes more than 125,000 sites, and you can also search the text of more than 100 million Web pages to find more information. Full access to Britannica.com requires a networked computer with a Yale IP address.
MIT CogNet is an electronic community for the cognitive and brain sciences. CogNet brings together current and classic resources in the field and provides services and utilities to enhance research, collaboration and teaching. Full texts of major references works include The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences, The New Cognitive Neurosciences, Handbook of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. Also included is 400 searchable full text books from MIT Press as well as full text of MIT Press Journals in the field of cognitive and brain sciences. Also includes database access to bibliographic and some abstract information for books, journals, reference works, conference proceedings and grey literature in the field. Users from Yale IP addresses are automatically identified as Yale Guests and have full access to CogNet resources. A user may choose to register in order to create a Curriculum Vitae, bibliography, and notification settings. In the CogNet Library, the full texts of all books and MIT journals are available. For journals not affiliated with MIT, only the abstracts are available for free.
The Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford University Press) is in an online version which enables the full text of the Dictionary to be searched in a way impossible in the printed version, and which allows updates more rapidly and more frequently than ever before. Language is constantly evolving, and there has been a great proliferation of new words and meanings in English throughout the world since the original publication of the OED between 1884 and 1928. Now, for the first time ever, the Dictionary is being completely revised. Every one of the 250,000 entries is being updated, and many more will be added during the course of this unprecedented revision programme, which is expected to double the length of the text. Draft versions of new and revised entries from the revision programme will be added to OED Online at quarterly intervals, with each revised entry being linked to the Second Edition version for comparison. The first batch of new and revised entries contains just over 1000 entries, running from the letter M to the word mahurat.
The Core Collection brings together over 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works published by Oxford University Press into a single cross-searchable resource. Containing over 2 million dictionary definitions, facts, figures, people, places, dates, and quotations, Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection is unique in offering integrated, consistent content from general reference, language, humanities, social sciences, medical, scientific, and professional one-volume works. It’s also possible to search each title in the collection individually. For a list of the titles included see this list. Thesaurus.com provides a hypertext version of Roget's Thesaurus.
Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 3,600 scholarly publications, including more than 2,700 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 4,500 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database (CIS-ED) includes coverage of:
Each year, the Extended Database is updated with an additional year of coverage. A print version is also produced annually containing listings for the most recent year. CIS is a joint venture of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide users with ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. ERIC encompasses the world’s largest and most frequently searched education database. It contains more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. ERIC documents are available on microfiche in the Sterling Memorial Library Microtext Center.
Searches, at the table level, U.S. Federal Government (1974-present), international intergovernmental (1983-present), state government and privately published documents (1981-present) that contain statistics. Default screen searches the "Power Tables" (full text of the most frequently requested statistics). A second method of retrieval is by searching the abstracts. You can limit search by subject, title, agency, and author; and/or to a particular collection, by geography, demography or commodity, and/or by date. Some of the publications are available full text and you can limit your search to those. Some of the tables are also available for exporting into a spreadsheet. The Government Documents and Information Center's collection contain the full text of most of the publications indexed in Statistical Universe on microfiche.
PsycARTICLES provides access to 42 full-text journals in basic, applied, clinical and theoretical psychology published by the American Psychological Association. These articles are linked to all Ovid databases (PsycINFO, MEDLINE, CINAHL, etc.) and the journals are searchable - cover to cover.
The PsycINFO ® database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage is worldwide, and includes references and abstracts to over 1300 journals and dissertations in more than 30 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. Over 50,000 references are added annually. Popular literature is excluded.
The ISI Citation Databases collectively index more than 8,000 high quality, peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references from the world's most influential research with online backfiles access now completely matching the print editions:
Selected Internet Resources: Sources for Education Statistics
Psychology Electronic Journals This list of direct connects to electronic journals devoted to the study of Psychology that are restricted to the Yale community. A more extensive list of titles (to which direct access may or may not be available) can be found at Electronic Journals and Periodicals. Added SFX technology allows for direct linking to many full text articles.
National Center for Health Statistics The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is the primary Federal organization responsible for the collection, analyses, and dissemination of health statistics. The mission of the National Center for Health Statistics is to provide statistical information that will guide actions and policies to improve the health of the American people. NCHS data systems include data on vital events as well as information on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care. These data are used by policymakers in Congress and the Administration, by medical researchers, and by others in the health community.
Social Science Statistical Laboratory (Statlab) Yale's Social Science Statistical Laboratory provides statistical consulting for the planning and execution of empirical studies, and analysis and interpretation of results. Consultants are regularly available for short consultations, and may be able to provide more specialized assistance with longer projects. Among other things, consultants can advise users on the selection and use of program packages on PCs and UNIX, and the planning of computerized analyses -- especially those involving large datasets.
This web site contains a collection of small programs (CGI in Perl and C) that perform statistical calculation.
A concise, hypertext glossary of statistical terms.
The American Psychological Association has established an editorial style that it uses in all of the books and journals that it publishes. Many others working in the social and behavioral sciences have adopted this style as their standard as well. See the print guide for complete information on the APA Editorial Standard, Publication Manual of the American Psychology Association
Title: Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
Location: Social Science Library, Reference APA Style for Electronic References A quick reference for creating citations according to the APA Style Manual. A general listing of APA style guides from psywww.com APA Samples for a Bibliography Samples of bibliographic citations created according to the APA style manual. Columbia Online Style: MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources Janice Walker's guide for citing online resources. A hypertext version of William Strunk's classic style guide which was designed to demonstrate "the rules of usage and principles of composition most commonly violated". With RefWorks users can create their own personal research database of citations to books, journal articles, and web pages, by importing references from online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography. Citations initially captured with RefWorks can subsequently be exported to other citation programs, such as Endnote, Procite, or Reference Manager. As a web-based product, RefWorks is available to users across various platforms including Windows, Mac, Unix, etc. Citations imported into RefWorks will display with Yale SFX links. These links will lead to electronic full text (when available) along with other library services, such as Interlibrary Loan.
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