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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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1987
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED290482 |
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- Library Skills for Psychological Research. A Workbook for PSY 121. King, Christine And Others Abstracting Cataloging Citation Indexes College Libraries Government Publications Higher Education Indexes Library Catalogs Library Instruction Library Skills Online Searching Periodicals Psychological Testing Psychology Social Science Research Workbooks This workbook for a course taught at the State University at Stony Brook, New York, is designed to help students develop library skills for psychological research. Nine major topics are covered: (1) author-title and subject catalogs; (2) some major reference books; (3) journals in psychology; (4) periodical indexes and the periodicals catalog; (5) abstracting sources in psychology and related fields; (6) the Social Sciences Citation Index and computerized information retrieval; (7) general magazines and newspapers; (8) psychological tests and measures; and (9) U.S. government documents. Each chapter provides objectives for that chapter and a descriptive account of pertinent subject matter. In addition, five chapters include a brief introduction, six chapters present a summary of the topics covered, and a selective listing of specialized reference works is provided at the end of the second chapter. (CGD)