NAME:______________________________
PSY 101 General Psychology
Exercise #2: LIBRARY SEARCH PROJECT
ITEMS TO FIND IN OUR LIBRARY:
1. Use the on-line Library Catalog to find two books on a psychologyrelated topic in the circulating collection.
What SUBJECT did you search for? _____________________
List the books’ titles and call numbers below. (2 points)
2. Find two psychology reference books in our collection. List their
titles and call numbers below. (2 points)
3. The library has the following periodical databases on-line:
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· PsycINFO/PsycARTICLES
· Academic OneFile
· Medline
What are these databases used for? (1 point)
How do you access each of them? (2 points)
TOPIC: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
4. Using the topic listed above, find an article with an abstract using
one of the databases in #3. Write down the bibliographic information
(the citation) for the article below. List the abstract (or accession)
number if available. (3 points)
Index searched:
Citation of article:
Authors:
Article Title:
Journal Title (Source):
Volume/Issue Number:
Pages:
Abstract/accession # (if available):
5. List the titles of three psychology journals available through the
library--list at least one print title and one online title. How did you
find these titles? (3 points)
6. Obtain a current issue of Psychology Today and browse through its
contents OR jump to the on-line version at
http://www.psychologytoday.com. Compare its contents to the
contents included in one of the titles listed in #5 above. If you are
completing this worksheet through the library’s web page, compare
the articles in Psychology Today to the articles that can be accessed
through PsycARTICLES. Would you consider Psychology Today to be a
scholarly or “empirical” source? Why or why not? (2 points)