Psychology
PSS110

Library Tutorial

Teaching period 3 2010

Welcome to information resources for Psychology students. This product can be

used as a guide to finding information on any topic, although the examples used
here are all based on your major assignment. You can download this and use it as a
manual if you wish. We are Susan Roberts, Liaison Librarian for OUA students, and
Colleen Skinner, Liaison Librarian for Social Sciences.

Swinburne Library home page

overview
‡ Services for OUA students
‡ Questions Comments Research help:
ask us questions
‡ Using the library to find quality
information on your topic
‡ Search tips
‡ The internet?
‡ Citing
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First, an overview of what the library offers to OUA students. Of course we do have
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books to you, that you will need to pay the return postage.
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Remember that you are welcome to visit any of our campus libraries in person if you
live close enough.
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Log into MyLibrary by clicking on the Holds and renewals link, or via Search the
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Click on the Holds and renewals link

and follow the links to log in to renew
your loans and check any holds.
Or log into MyLibrary, available via the
Search the Library link
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Log in here to renew loans and check holds.

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 Assignment Topic: The relations
between rumination, reflection and
gender
This is the first of two written assignments for this unit.
The second assignment will build on the knowledge and
skills developed in this first assignment, i.e.:
‡ Read and critically evaluate peer-reviewed journal
articles;
‡ Find research articles through the library systems;
‡ Write in APA format;
‡ Learn to use APA format citations and references;
‡ Present data in APA format tables.

Defining the topic

‡ Gives you a general understanding of
the topic
‡ Enables you to build a list of synonyms
for key concepts/words to allow
searching using alternative terms if
necessary.
> e.g. rumination, reflection, gender
differences, coping styles,
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 Filling in the gaps
‡ Before you start searching, make sure you read
any references provided by your lecturers. Some
of these are linked from your Blackboard home
page.
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need to consult a reference work such as an
encyclopedia or subject dictionary for
background.
‡ It may also help clarify the key concepts/words
to use in your literature search.
‡ Many of these reference works are now
available online via Library Search or Subject
Starter Guides
 

Library Search
‡ You can search all the resources held at all the campus
libraries: books, periodicals, audiovisual items on the
shelves, e-books, periodicals in databases
‡ Place holds on books that are on loan or at another
campus library if you live locally.
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‡ Log in to renew your book loans yourself provided they
are not overdue
‡ Start searching straight away just by typing in some
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 Type in coping gender
differences(for example)
and then click search.
You can just use keywords
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words from the title, subject
terms etc if you know then.

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Notes that the radio button defaults to books and more

Results page. Click here

for more information

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of the previous screen, and get to this one.
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be able to visit us and locate it on the shelves. You could also Place a hold (see the
red link) if you live near enough to visit one of our other campus libraries. Our courier
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Back to the library home page. You can

click on the link at the side here to get a
bit more control ± such as selecting an
advanced search

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best). The best thing to do is have a look yourself and work out your own preference.
 Finding your given references
‡ Check Subject Materials Online, using your
unit code (PSS110) or just keywords e.g.
author/title. Your lecturer may also have put the
links on Blackboard.

‡ If not, one way is to search the Library by journal

name using the Online Journals link to see if
we hold the year and volume number, either on
the shelves or online

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Subject Materials Online

‡ Subject materials online provides online access
to high demand material such as book chapters
and journal articles.
‡ You will be asked to log in because this material
is only available to Swinburne staff and students
‡ If you have any problems, check out the
problems page here:
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/database/problem
s.htm

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 For Subject
Materials Online,
you can search by
unit code, or
keywords .
Or just click here and
type in the unit code.
A list will then appear

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Finding articles yourself when

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‡ You can also search for periodical (journal) titles that are
kept on the shelves in the campus libraries
± AND
‡ All the periodical titles that are available in the electronic
databases.
‡ You may be given a list of articles to find, for example:
Cox, SJ, Mezulis, AH & Hyde, JS, 2010, The influence of
child gender role and maternal feedback to child stress
on the emergence of the gender difference in depressive
rumination in adolescence. Developmental psychology
vol. 46, no. 4 July, pp. 842 ± 852.
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This article is NOT one of your provided articles so count it as an extra.

   
 You can type the periodical
(journal) title into the Search
box or ± much better ± select
Search the Library on the
LHS and do an advanced
search.
Or
Click on the Online Journals
links and search for the
periodical title there.

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There are lots of ways you can find the full text of an article, if we subscribe to it.
These are just a few of them.
They will all be demonstrated in turn:
‡ As above ± just type in the title of the periodical (or journal) straight into the
search box
‡ Use the Search the Library to do an advanced search by exact title (next
screen)
‡ Using the Online Journals link  

Advanced search example using Search the Library link:

 

Use the Advanced search option to

search for the exact title, if you know it

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Example using the Online Journals link:  

Online journals link ± just

type in the title of the journal
(or periodical) to find out if we
hold it in our databases ± and
the years.

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Finding more of your own

articles on the topic

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Subject Starter Guides

‡ When you need online information sources such
as periodical articles for your topic, but are not
sure which to use or how to get to them, have a
look at these.
‡ Browse lists of helpful online journals, websites
and other information divided by study themes.
‡ These help you with assignments and research.
‡ They direct you to recommended online
resources in the area of your topic.
‡ Resources include databases of journal articles,
newspaper articles, statistics, related websites,
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e-books and more.
 

Find the Subject starter

guides here and follow
the links to the
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 So why use databases?
‡ They are convenient to use
‡ They allow you to search through hundreds of
journal titles and issues simultaneously
‡ Usually discipline-based: business, law,
computer science, psychology etc.
‡ Updated regularly
‡ The articles they contain provide the main form
of primary source material and your lecturers
expect you to use them

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They contain scholarly, peer reviewed articles, books chapters, conference papers
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Searching a number of
databases at the same time
‡ Now for a sample search using five of the
databases:
> Academic Search Complete
> PsycARTICLES
> PsycBOOKS
> PsycINFO
> Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection
Tick the box next to each databases and click
Continue to access the search page
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These are all provided by our largest (and favourite) supplier of databases,
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 Click on the EBSCOhost
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You can scroll down and select

from over 40 individual
databases covering various
subjects and then click
Continue

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full text. You may
also see a fulltext?
link that may take
you to another
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This is an example of a basic search. Note that the results are ranked in order of
relevance.
 

What if there is no full text for

the article in EBSCOhost?
‡ Click on the Full text? button. It will
check for links on other databases or
online journals that Swinburne
subscribes to.
‡ If there are none, it will give options for
searching other resources.

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 Advanced Search
‡ Advanced search allows you to really
control the searching process to
increase the relevance of your results
‡ Boolean operators can be used to
connect search terms
‡ Note how you can select different fields
to search such as subject, title, abstract,
author etc.

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Advanced
search ± add
rows for extra
search terms,
limit to peer
reviewed if you
wish. Note
options to limit
to certain fields
± abstract in
this case

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 Other useful databases
‡ The Psychology Subject Starter Guide
has a list of some others that are
helpful:
> Psychology collection on Gale
> Scopus
> Sage Premier
> SpringerLink
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Google Scholar
‡ http://scholar.com.au
‡ Broad search for scholarly sources,
articles, books, abstracts, citations, etc
‡ Ranked according to reputation of
author, publication and how often cited
‡ Links to Swinburne library if we hold
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Google Scholar (GS) has recently changed the linking policy to our full text articles.

In the past, GS harvested our local holdings and displayed links from their search
results based on the local holdings. As from June this year (2010), GS is no longer
harvesting the institution's holdings and will simply display the general full textlinks
based on the subscription status. This can be inaccurate and confusing to users
because in most cases we don't subscribe to a complete run of full text in a journal.
Our advice to users is to check with the Library for the availability of full text if
you can't access an article from a link in Google Scholar.
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Use the Advanced

Scholar search for
more control

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Google scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly material on the web,
and aims to sort articles the way researchers do. From one place, you can search
across many disciplines and sources; peer reviewed papers, theses, abstracts and
articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories,
universities and other scholarly organisations.
 Citing correctly
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results of psychological experiments and includes:
> How to cite in-text references
> How to organise reference lists

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Summing up
‡ The library is open all hours. You can access
Swinburne library via our website 24 hours a day
7 days a week:
http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lib/
‡ Remember the special services for OUA
students
‡ Contact the library by phone, email, SMS,
webform: see Questions Comments Research
Help on the home page
‡ Search the library to find quality information on
your topic
‡ Log into MyLibrary to renew books
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Good luck with your

assignment

Remember your Liaison librarian is

Susan Roberts
sroberts@swin.edu.au
0392157009

Or just email the library at library@swin.edu.au

or ring 92148330