Research Methods in Social Psychology
Databases for Locating Journal Articles
PsycInfo (most important resource for journal articles)
PsycArticles (subset of PsycInfo that is searchable full-text)
Web of Science (Citation index)
Google Scholar (easy to use, but searching and content are unstructured)
To Retrieve Full text
Click on GetIt to find out if CMU has the journal online or in print
If Carnegie Mellon doesn’t have the item, use ILLiad for interlibrary loan.
Reference and Background Sources
Use Cameo, the library catalog, for the latest books on your topic.
Encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks in psychology are on the first floor
of Hunt Library, in the BF section. A great online reference source for social
sciences is Sage eReference, http://www.sage-ereference.com
Online guide to APA style is available from the U. of Wisconsin at
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html
Psychology Research Guide links to resources in social psychology at
http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/SocialSciences/Psych/psychsoc.html
Library Help Services
Jean Alexander, jeana@andrew.cmu.edu, 268-6809
Hunt Library Reference, huntref@andrew.cmu.edu, 268-2442
Chat/IM Reference (1-8 Monday-Thursday, 1-5 Friday) under Ask a
Librarian on library front page