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Educational Psychology, TPRP 194

This subject guide contains links to library and other resources that can be used for Educational Psychology, TPRP 194. 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.

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Catalogs

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. Use union catalogs to augment your search if you cannot find the information you seek through ORBIS, Yale University Library's Online Catalog.

Encyclopedias

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. Encyclopedias are useful in providing background information, particularly if you are not familiar with a given subject area.

Indexes

Indexes, such as periodical indexes, allow you to search for articles or subject specific materials published in a periodical, journal title, or other bibliographic resources. 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 resource is part of a library's collection. An index allows you to search for a specific article, book chapter, etc. within a periodical, journal title, or other resource.

Additional Library Resources

In this section, you can find a sample of additional library resources, including psychology-related electronic journals and information on Yale University Library's interlibrary loan/document delivery services.

Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Style Guides

Dictionaries, style guides, and thesauri are useful tools for paper composition and search strategy development. Dictionaries can be general or subject specific. Use dictionaries to verify the spelling and definition of word terms. A Thesaurus is a listing of terms arranged by possible relationship. Use a thesaurus to help determine related terms to keywords you use in your search strategy or to determine correct keywords to use when searching an electronic databases. Style guides provide format information and detail for preparing your paper, bibliographical references, and bibliography.

Catalogs

Eureka

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.

Orbis

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.

WorldCat

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.

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Encyclopedias

Britannica Online

Britannica Online includes the following:

  • Britannica Online and Book of the Year articles -- More than 65,000 subjects are addressed in articles ranging from concise explanations to comprehensive expositions and from historical treatments of subjects to current-events coverage.
  • The Index to Britannica Online -- More than 400,000 references have been compiled, edited, and hypertext-linked to text articles for easy navigation. Additionally, there are more than 10,000 links to images and tables.
  • Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition -- The best-selling dictionary, with its comprehensive treatment of words, has been included for your convenience.
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.

The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences

Title: The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
Published: Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c1999
Location: Social Science Library, Reference
Call Number: BF311 M556X 1999 (LC)

See Also: Selected Print Resources for more secondary psychology resources.

Note: Also available on CD-ROM at the Sterling Memorial Library CD-ROM Reference Center.

The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) is a comprehensive reference work that encompasses the diverse theories and methodologies of the cognitive and brain sciences. The encyclopedia contains 471 specialized articles by preeminent researchers and scholars; articles include extensive bibliographies and provide multiple cross-references. MITECS spans six major topics: Philosophy; Psychology; Neuroscience; Computational Intelligence; Linguistics and Language; and Culture, Cognition, and Evolution.

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Indexes

Academic Search Premier

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.

Current Contents

Current Contents Connect database provides access to the tables of contents and bibliographic data from current issues of the world's leading scholarly research journals and books in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Cover-to-cover indexing of journal articles, book reviews, meeting abstracts, editorials, etc., is provided for more than 8000 international journals covering nearly 200 disciplines. Complete bibliographic information, including English-language author abstracts (for approximately 85% of articles and reviews in the science editions), author keywords, KeyWords Plus ®, and ISSNs are provided. Email alerts for articles matching saved search strategies are available.

ERIC Online

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.

HaPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments

Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI assists researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and evaluators, including students, to identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.

PsycARTICLES

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.

PsycINFO

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.

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature Full Text

Readers' Guide Full Text and Readers' Guide Retrospective together offer comprehensive indexing and abstracting of some 375 of the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada since 1890, plus the full text of over 120 of those periodicals from 1994 - present. They cover news, current events, and all subject areas, including business, fashion, politics, crafts, food, education, sports, history, and science. The abstracts average 125 words in length. Two types of abstracts are included. Informative abstracts convey the content, scope, and complexity of the source article, and are the predominant form used. Indicative abstracts describe the subject of the source article and are reserved for how to articles, humorous essays, personal accounts, and recipes. Full-text coverage begins in January 1994 for most titles.

Web of Science

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:

  • The Science Citation Index Expanded covers over 5,700 journals
  • The Social Sciences Citation Index covers over 1,700 journals
  • The Arts & Humanities Citation Index covers over 1,120 journals

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Additional Library Resources

Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services

Yale Library's Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Document Delivery Services helps to provide access to library collections, both at Yale and around the world.

Psychology Electronic Journals

This partial list of direct connections to electronic journals devoted to the study of Psychology that are restricted to the Yale community. A more extensive list can be found by searching the Online Journals Database

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Dictionaries, Thesauri, and Style Guides

APA Reference Style: tightening up your citations

A comprehensive guide which summarizes APA style, the set of specific formatting conventions sanctioned by the American Psychological Association.

This tutorial represents the 4th edition of APA Style. Consult the 5th edition manual for complete information.

APAStyle.org

This website contains tips on APA Style, information on electronic references citation, and tips on removing bias in language.

APA Style Resources

This site contains links to APA style guides and help sheets on the Internet. Students may also wish to look into Carol J. Amato's book, The World's Easiest Guide to Using the APA, copyright 1995 by Stargazer Publishing Company.

Columbia Guide to Online Style

The Columbia Guide to Online Style presents a guide to locating, translating, and using the elements of citation for both a humanities style (i.e., MLA and Chicago) and a scientific style (APA and CBE) for electronically-accessed sources. The unique element approach used makes this a useful reference book for citing electronic sources regardless of the specific bibliographic style you may be required to use.

Elements of Style

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".

Oxford English Dictionary

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.

Psychology Style Guide

A quick reference for creating citations according to the APA Style Manual.

RefWorks

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.

Thesaurus.com

Thesaurus.com provides a hypertext version of Roget's Thesaurus.

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