Davidson College Library Research Guide for Psychology 254

Industrial & Organizational Psychology Professor Tonidandel Fall 2006 Reference Works Articles Starting Points Psychology Business Books Using RefWorks Tips & Further Help Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494). Reference Works Psychology | Business & Management Psychology The APA Dictionary of Psychology. Ed. Gary VandenBos. Washington, DC: APA, 2007. Reference R 150.3 A512 The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science. Ed. W. Edward Craighead and Charles Nemeroff. 3rd ed. 4 vols. New York: Wiley, 2001. A Dictionary of Psychology. Andrew Colman. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford, 2006. Reference R 150.3 C716d2 Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology. Ed. Charles Spielberger. 3 vols. Boston, MA: Elsevier Academic Press, 2004. Reference R 158 E56 Encyclopedia of Psychology. Ed. Alan E. Kazdin. 8 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000. Reference R 150.3 E561 Handbook of Psychology. Ed. IRving Weiner. 12 vols. New York: Wiley, 2003. Reference R 150.3 H236 Note: volume 12 covers industrial and organizational psychology. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Ed. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Bates. 26 vols. New York: Elsevier, 2001. Reference R 300.3 I611 Business & Management The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organizational Behavior. Ed. Nigel Nicholson. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Business, 1999. Reference R 302.3 B632 Encyclopedia of Management. Ed. Marilyn Helms. 5th ed. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2006. Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ed. Edgar F. Borgetta. 2nd ed. 5 vols. New York: Academic Press, 2001. Reference R 301.03 E561 2000 International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Ed. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Bates. 26 vols. New York: Elsevier, 2001. Reference R 300.3 I611 Articles Starting Points | Psychology | Business, Management, & Personnel Starting Points Academic Search Premier (1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. OmniFile Full Text Mega (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Psychology PsycINFO (1887 to present) Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and related disciplines. Search Syntax Truncation: use a dollar sign $. Wildcard: use a question mark ?. PsycARTICLES (1985 to present) Contains the full text of over 55 American Psychological Association (APA), Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group journals. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (1987 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to economics, immigration, health, education, psychology, race relations, social services, and sociology. International in scope. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Business, Management, & Personnel Business Abstracts (July 1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 600 business periodicals, including scholarly journals, trade journals, popular magazines like Business Week, and newspapers like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Also contains citations for product reviews, corporate profiles, and interviews as well as the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present. Search Syntax Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "". Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?. Business Source Premier (1965 to present) Provides the full text of articles from over 8,800 periodicals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed journals and 1,200 trade journals and business magazines; also includes over 3,800 industry reports, 500 market research reports, and 140 books. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. JSTOR Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals, including several that cover management and organizational behavior. Also includes book reviews. Note: JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years. Search Syntax Truncation: use a plus sign +. Phrase searching: automatic. Sociological Abstracts (1963 to present) indexes journal articles in sociology and related fields, including anthropology, economics, education, philosophy, political science, and social psychology. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: automatic. Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Books Library Catalogue Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library. Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records. To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first). Useful subject headings include: Employee selection Employees drug testing Employees recruiting Employees training of Employment interviewing Interviewing Mentoring Mentoring in business Organizational behavior Personality assessment Personality tests Personnel management Personnel management psychological aspects Psychological tests Psychology industrial Supervision of employees Work psychological aspects Search Syntax Truncation: use a dollar sign $. Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ". Wildcard: use a question mark ?. WorldCat Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan. Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings. See above for a list of some relevant subject headings. Search Syntax Truncation: use an asterisk *. Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war"). Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Using RefWorks Need help managing the citations that you are finding in databases? Try RefWorks! You can use it to organize your citations, keep track of your notes on books and articles, and generate bibliographies. Find out more; consult our guide on Using RefWorks. Connect to RefWorks Tips & Further Help How to Narrow or Broaden your Search How to Identify a Scholarly Article How to Search the Web: Tools & Tips How to Evaluate Web Resources Research Planner (pdf document) Research Log (pdf document)

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