Counseling and Psychology Databases Tutorial
- Review of Troy-provided Counseling and Psychology databases (click here for this section)
- How to obtain the text of the articles (click here for this section)
- Searching specifics (click here for this section)
Review of Counseling & Psychology databases
| Database | Description | Notes |
| PsycARTICLES(via EBSCOhost) | This database provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1988 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. 100% of journals included in this database are also indexed in PsycINFO (meaning they are peer-reviewed/refereed). |
For best results (greatest number of indexed articles as well as full text), search this database, Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection, and PsycINFO simultaneously. To do that, sign into one of the three databases, click the "Choose Databases" button, and then select the desired databases. <click here for more information regarding access to this database> |
| PsycBooks (via EBSCOhost) | Provides more
than 10,000 chapters in full text from books on psychology and counseling,
including those published by the APA and many classic books of historical
impact in psychology. |
For best results (greatest number of indexed articles as well as full text), search this database, Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection, and PsycINFO simultaneously. To do that, sign into one of the three databases, click the "Choose Databases" button, and then select the desired databases. <click here for more information regarding access to this database> |
| Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection (via EBSCOHost) | Indexes more than 400 scholarly and non-scholarly journals. Most are available in full text. | For best results (greatest number of indexed articles as well as full text), search this database, PsycARTICLES, and PsycINFO simultaneously. To do that, sign into one of the three databases, click the "Choose Databases" button, and then select the desired databases. <click here for more information regarding access to this database> |
| PsycINFO (via EBSCOhost) | Indexes nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, books, book chapters, and dissertations. There is no full text directly in this database, however, 100% of the articles that are full text within the other databases from the EBSCO Company, including Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection and PsycARTICLES, are linked from the records in PsycINFO. | This should be one of
the primary CP databases that you use. Although primarily a journal database, books, chapters of books, and dissertations are also indexed. For best results (greatest number of indexed articles as well as full text), search this database, PsycARTICLES, and Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection simultaneously. To do that, sign into one of the three databases, click the "Choose Databases" button, and then select the desired databases. <click here for more information regarding access to this database> |
| ProQuest Psychology Journals (via ProQuest) | Provides full text of
more than 400 mostly-scholarly journals. Virtually all of the journals indexed are also indexed in PsycINFO (indicating that they are of a scholarly nature)--a notable exception is the popular (non-scholarly) journal Psychology Today. |
Because this database is searched via a service (ProQuest) other than the one that provides the three databases listed above, you will need to search it independently of the others. <click here for more information regarding access to this database> |
| Mental Measurements Yearbook (via EBSCOHost) | Contains the most recent descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised tests from the Buros Institute's 9th ed. to current Yearbooks. The database covers more than 2,000 commercially-available educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher, publication date; price; time requirements; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations. Note: The tests themselves are not provided. Access to such materials is typically restricted to practicing counselors, etc. | Please note that this database does not cover editions 1-8. The print copies of these volumes may be available at a library near you.
<click here for more information regarding access to this database> |
| Other databases | The Library also provides dozens of additional databases. If, for example, the topic of your research involved criminal justice, you might also search a criminal justice database. | The Help Me Choose page provides a list of databases arranged by subject area. For assistance in selecting databases or in selecting your search terms, consult your Library Staff. |
Graphical representation of indexing (number of journal titles) provided by the four primary CP "article" databases.
How to obtain the text of
articles
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- From the database you are searching. If the text of the article is full text within the database you are searching, it will be marked as such, and you can then proceed to view, download or print it.
- From another database. Many databases index (provide references to) more articles
than they provide the text for. This does not mean that the text is
not available from another database. To find out which databases provide
the text of articles from a given journal, you can utilize a specialized
database named Journal Search. For example, let's say you found
a reference to an article from the journal Clinical Pediatrics.
Maybe you found it in the PsycINFO database, or maybe it was
in the reference list of another article; either way, you have the reference
and need to know where you can find the text. A quick search of the
journal title, Clinical Pediatrics, in the Journal Search
database would show you which databases provide the text.
EXAMPLE SEARCH RESULTS FROM THE JOURNAL SEARCH DATABASE:
1 record retrieved for the search: Title begins with "Clinical Pediatrics"
Clinical pediatrics (0009-9228)
from 01/01/1983 to 06/01/1990 in LexisNexis Academic
from 01/01/1994 to present in Academic Search Premier, Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MasterFILE Premier and Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
from 01/01/1998 to present in CINAHL Database with Full Text, ProQuest Nursing Journals, ProQuest Research Library and ProQuest Psychology Journals
from 01/01/1999 to present in Health Reference Center
from 03/01/1993 to present in Health and Wellness Resource Center and InfoTrac OneFile
- From a TROY Library. To complement the journals available online, your Troy Library subscribes to journals. Click here and look for the heading "Journal locator," for more information.
- A special list just for Counseling & Psychology. From the University College Library page, select the Help Me Choose link by the DATABASES menu item. In the Counseling and Psychology database area, you will find a link to a list of 500+ CP journals that are available through a Troy-provided database. This list is also available from a link on the Counseling and Psychology section of BIBLIOGRAPHIES on the University College Library page menu. This list should help simplify your search, but as always, please ask your Library staff for assistance whenever you desire it.
Searching specifics:
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Again, you may require the personal assistance of the Library staff to best help you utilize online databases (or any other resources). Please do not hesitate to contact the Library. The following is some basic search information using PsycINFO as an example database.
Connecting: If you are reading this page on the WWW, you have done some of these steps already, but let us start from the beginning.
Start at the home page, http://uclibrary.troy.edu, and make the following selections/clicks (as indicated by the ">"):
Databases> Counseling or Psychology.
You will now see a listing of the Counseling and Psychology databases from which you can connect to them. To connect to a specific Database, e.g., PsycINFO, click on the Login link.
Searching: Basic searching is very straightforward. Just put your terms in the search box, and click the search button. The most important thing to remember/understand is how most databases, EBSCO's in particular, use the Boolean operator and to search for the terms you enter. The default search for databases from EBSCO is Keyword Search. If you do this type of search, you will usually want to put the word and between your search terms, e.g., depression and treatment and schizophrenia. Unless you separate your search terms with and, databases will typically limit your results to references that include all of your terms in very close proximity to one another. It is fine, and even preferable, not to use and when you are looking for a phrase or combination of words with a specific meaning, e.g., civil rights, personality traits, or drug abuse; but, when you are searching for individual terms or concepts in combination with others, you must use the and operator; otherwise, you will find few or no results.
Examples of the proper use of the Boolean operator and:
Bad search: race self perception
Good search: race and self perceptionBad search: claustrophobia panic disorder fear
Good search: claustrophobia and panic disorder and fearBad search: subliminal advertising consumer behavior
Good search: subliminal advertising and consumer behavior
Search options within PsycINFO:
- Natural Language Search: Allows you to type a phrase or sentence which describes what you are looking for without worrying about using the Boolean operators, and, or, & not.
- Advanced Search: Provides several drop-down boxes for your search terms. Each one lets you specify which field it should look in for your term(s), e.g., you can tell it to look for Smith in the author field and Freud in the descriptor field.
- Expert: Has the functionality to combine your previous searches, and lets you specify any and every limiter for the search.
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Example of a thesaurus
listing for the term academic achievement.
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The following is an example of a typical reference from PsycINFO. It provides the primary information about the article, e.g., author, title, etc., as well as an extensive abstract. Of key utility when using PsycINFO is the online thesaurus (discussed above). The thesaurus is a guide to the official descriptors or subjects uniformly used to index articles within PsycINFO. Note the "Subjects:" assigned to this article.
| Accession Number: | 2001-16383-004 |
| Document Type: | Print (Paper); Journal Article |
| Title: | Infant-like social interactions between a robot and a human caregiver. |
| Author(s): | Breazeal, Cynthia; Scassellati, Brian; |
| Affiliation: | Massachusetts Inst of Technology, Artificial Intelligence Lab, MA, US |
| Source: | Adaptive Behavior. Vol 8(1), Win (2000). (pp. 49-74). US: International Society for Adaptive Behavior. www.adaptive-behavior.org |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1059-7123 |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | From birth, human infants are immersed in a social environment that allows them to leverage the skills and capabilities of their caregivers. A critical pre-cursor to this type of learning is the ability to maintain interaction levels that are neither overwhelming nor under-stimulating. In this paper, we present a mechanism for an autonomous robot to regulate the intensity of its social interactions with a human. Similar to the feedback from infant to caregiver, the robot uses expressive displays to modulate the interaction intensity. This mechanism is integrated within a general framework that combines perception, attention, drives, emotions, behavior selection, and motor acts. We present a specific implementation of this architecture that enables the robot to react appropriately to both social stimuli (faces) and non-social stimuli (moving toys) while maintaining a suitable interaction intensity. We present results from both face-to-face interactions and interactions mediated through a toy. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2000 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Key Phrase: | infant-like social interactions between robotics vs human caregivers based on facial expressions |
| Subjects: | *Facial Expressions; *Human Computer Interaction; *Robotics; *Social Interaction; Caregivers |
| Classification: | 4140 Robotics |
| Population: | Human |
| Special Feature: | References |
| Release Date: | 20010207 |
| Database: | PsycINFO 1887-Current |
| Print: | Click here to mark for print. |
| View Links: | Check linked full text sources |
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Monday, December 10, 2007
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