Course Number: PS499 Subject: Psychology Spaces to be productive Bookable study space in library opens On and off-campus access On-campus access When you are on-campus and connected to the Internet, you will automatically be connected to the deep web Off-campus access Students can access deep web of academic resources from off-campus Start your research at the library website When you are about to access the deep web, the library will prompt you for your username and password Trouble shooting off-campus access Accessing quality academic resources Scenario 1. Finding an article when you have its reference alternative format Scenario 2. Search engines for academic articles Alternative format PsycINFO PsycINFO is a search engine (also called a database) that provides citations, most with abstracts, to journal articles, dissertations, reports, English-language book chapters and books, and other scholarly documents in the field of psychology as well as citations relevant for medicine, education, social work, law, criminology and organizational behaviour. Introduction to Boolean operators Search features of PsycINFO Phrase operators Put a phrase in double qoutes "climate change": will search article records for the whole phrase "climate change" Wildcard operator communi*: searches for words starting with "communi". Will return "community" or "communities" Boolean operators "climate change" OR "global warming": Will search for articles with either the phrase "climate change" or "global warming" This is great when you aren't sure which phrase or word might be used. Proximity garden NEAR/3 community: searches for articles where garden and community are within 3 words of each other Searching by Subject terms New terms: American Psychological Association Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms 2019 Update (new window) Science academic search engines Biology search engines Sociology search engines Health studies engines Spotlight on Indigenous search engines Indigenous studies subject guide iPortal: Indigenous Studies portal research tool, developed by the University of Saskatchewan library Free Prior and Informed Consent, hosted by Deyohahá:ge, the Indigenous Knowledge Centre, at Six Nations Polytechnic in the territory of Six Nations of the Grand, Oshweken, Ontario, Canada Books & eBooks How to cite in APA? Need help? Psychology librarian Mark Weiler, MLIS, PhD Feel free to email mweiler@wlu.ca Available by appointments by Zoom Tutorials (with transcripts) Creating a search strategy List of all our library tutorials Library user services desk online Ask Us chat email the library user services desk