Subject Guides by the Librarians

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You'll find guides to psychology and education.

Advanced Educational Psychology-- More

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We're planning to update the look of our webpage soon. How should we make it easier for you to use?

Can you tell that we have e-books?

How would you find a video or DVD on gifted children?

Can you find a database that contains state laws?

Do we have children's books? Find one.

Can you find an APA style guide?

Advaced Educational Psychology in the MED .Program

On Monday evening I'll be visiting Dr. Kay Jones' class on Advanced Educational Psychology. Let me share some of the resources I'll use in class. If you are in the class, please comment here and let me know what your topic interests are.

I'm going to start with Google Scholar since our journals are now linked in Google Scholar.

http://scholar.google.com Look for "educational psychology." What do you find here and how is it useful to you?

Did you use the basic or the advanced search screen? Take a good look at the Advanced Search Screen.

Here's a sample of what you can find on Advanced Search


Advanced Scholar Search
Advanced Search Tips About Google Scholar
Find articles
with all of the words

with the exact phrase

with at least one of the words

without the words

where my words occur
anywhere in the article
in the title of the article
Author
Return articles written by
e.g., "PJ Hayes" or McCarthy

Publication
Return articles published in
e.g., J Biol Chem or Nature

Date
Return articles published between
e.g., 1996

Think about these categories and how they help you find the articles you need.

Full Text Periodical Finder-- A New Look

Check it out:

There's a new look and more ways to use the Full Text Periodical Finder. We now have access to more than 20,000 full-text journals, so the Finder is even more important.

http://qm4qj4lz3m.search.serialssolutions.com/

You can get there from here too.
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Roving Librarians Are Coming Soon

Here is a picture of me at a conference some years ago.

Look for us in an dining area near you.

New for Valentine's Day-- Win the Candy

Guess how many hearts are in the candy dish! Guess the right number, and you could win the jar and the candy.

Yes, we have full-texts of articles and books.

Full-text is the best!



What's the big deal about electronic databases in academic libraries?


To me the answer is access to full-text articles. Remember that these are real articles just like in print but they are available to you from your computer on or off campus because we pay for subscriptions.

http://www.alvernia.edu/library Click on Article Databases. When you get into the database of your choice, select full-text. Need help? Call 610-796-8223.

Also, Alvernia has lots of electronic books through NetLibrary.
http://www.netlibrary.com/Search/AdvancedSearch.aspx




These are great resources for you to use. Look at our electronic resources page.





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