PSYA 308 -- Human Development

Prof. Frank Ellis

Off-Campus Library Services

Donna Bancroft donnaban@maine.edu

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PSYA 308 -- You will be writing a research paper. You will need at least seven (7) peer-reviewed articles.

• Library Card -- The barcode on the back of your University library card passwords you into the library databases when you are connecting to the Indexes and Databases in Mariner via the internet.
• Students on campus should request their cards from the circulation desk in the Katz Library
• Off-campus students can request their cards by:
• Phone 1-800-339-7323
• Online Library Card Application form

• APA (American Psychological Association) Publication Manual , 5th edition -- If you need the look at the entire APA Manual, there are copies on reserve at the Katz Library in Augusta and at all of the University Centers / Sites.

• Citing Sources -- excellent website developed by Duke University Libraries. Gives sample citation formats for various style manuals and will assist you in putting your Works Cited list together.

• Mariner Basics handout -- a step-by-step guide for finding books in URSUS and articles in the University of Maine System's online Indexes and Databases. Click here for a printable version: Mariner Basics.

To obtain background information on your topic, it is sometimes useful to look at an encyclopedia (this would not count as one of your sources for this paper). The articles in the encyclopedia often give you ideas for terms to search with in the databases, definition of terms, statistics, maps, and general information. The bibliography, references, or works cited at the end of the article often gives clues for further reading. Some of the online encyclopedias also give selected web site links on the internet.

• Britannica Online -- select from the alphabetical list of databases. If you are accessing this resource via the internet off-campus, you will need your library barcode number to use as a login.

• Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia -- select from the alphabetical list of databases. If you are accessing this resource via the internet, you will need your library barcode number to use as a login.

• URSUS -- Using URSUS, you can identify books and government documents at every library in the University of Maine System as well as the Bangor Public Library, the Maine State Library, and the Maine Law and Legislative Library. You can "Request" items with your University library card and have them sent to the campus, University Center, or ITV site where you are taking your classes.

• MaineCat -- If you cannot find an item in URSUS, you can search MaineCat catalogue of other libraries in Maine and order material with your University library card. The drop down menus allow you to have MaineCat books sent to a campus, University Center, or ITV site for pickup.

Problems with your library card? Send us an e-mail . Be sure to include your name in your e-mail and phone number where we can reach you.

To renew your books borrowed from URSUS , you can renew online by viewing your record, calling Off-Campus Library Services at 1-800-339-7323, or leaving us an e-mail.

To find journal and magazine articles, newspaper articles, book reviews, and other current information, you will be using the Indexes and Databases in Mariner. These databases cover varying date ranges and discipline areas. To find information about the coverage and date ranges of the database, click on the  in front of the database name.

To access databases from home you will need to "Authenticate" into the University of Maine System. You will be prompted by this box once you select the database to search, simply enter your last name only and your 14 digit library barcode number.

Example only.  Do not use this box to authenticate.

Academic Search Premier -- covers the areas of study: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Date coverage varies according to the publication. Provides full-text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications.

CQ Researcher -- Congressional Quarterly Researcher explores a single hot issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports. All full-text.

Maine Newsstand -- Index to and full text coverage of four Maine newspapers. Database includes comprehensive coverage of the Bangor Daily News (12/3/92-present) and the Portland Press Herald (10/30/95-present). Selected business coverage of the Central Maine Morning Sentinel (8/12/93-8/27/97) and Maine Times (2/4/95-present). Updated regularly.

PsycArticles -- PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from 53 psychology journals published by the American Psycholgical Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, the Hogrefe & Huber.  From 1985 to present.  Updated daily.

PsycInfo -- Index to the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Coverage includes references and abstracts to over 1,300 journals in more than 20 languages, and to book chapters and books in the English language. From 1887 to present.

ArticleLinker:

The library has a resource to help database users locate full text articles. It is called ArticleLinker.

What is it?

ArticleLinker provides access to the full-text of journal articles available in any of the library’s databases. If the complete article is not available in the database you are searching in, ArticleLinker will tell you if full-text might be available in any of the other online resources. No more searching different databases to see if an article is available in full-text somewhere else!

When do you use it? Whenever you are searching in a database and the full text is not available in that database, look for the following:

1.   Click on the icon, then the link for your campus

Many of the articles you will find will be full-text, this means you can print out the entire article from the database. Many articles give you only an abstract of the entire article, to order articles that are not full-text , you may request photocopies If there is no full text available by clicking onto the "Article Linker" button. From the next screen select your campus and them click on Distance Learners submit an Interlibrary Loan request to Off-Campus Library Services link located at the bottom of the screen. This will take you to our Interlibrary Loan program called “Illiad”. Once you have registered Illiad will automatically fill in the form for you with the article request, go to the bottom of the page and click on submit.of the articles from the Off-Campus Library Services office. If you have a citation from another source besides the databases, go to www.learn.maine.edu/ocls and select Article Request Form / ILLiad Document Delivery. You may fill in the form manually and click on submit.

Popular Magazine or Scholarly Journal? -- chart that compares the differences between a popular magazine or scholarly journal.

Librarians' Index to the Internet -- carefully selected and extensively annotated sites of use in academic research and for many general inquires.

Google -- Ranks by site popularity.

Yahoo! -- Ranks by site relevancy.

Updated: May 28, 2008

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