COG SCI 100: Cognitive Science

Citation Linker

jwoolums@library.berkeley.edu (Jill Woolums) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:39:40 -0700

Citation Linker

Have a citation? Go directly to the article! Use Citation Linker.

Get immediate access to journal articles, books and other publications (or request them when they are not available) by entering a title and other citation information.

When a publication is available online: The UC-eLinks window will provide a link to the publisher's web site that should contain the full text of the publication if UC (systemwide or your home campus) subscribes to the electronic version of the publication.

When a publication is not available online: The UC-eLinks window will offer other options such as the ability to check campus library holdings in the Melvyl Catalog (and where you can sometimes find that items ARE available online), or to Request the item via Interlibrary Loan (ILL) if UC (systemwide or your home campus) does not subscribe to the electronic version of the publication.

BASIC Libraries at UC

jwoolums@library.berkeley.edu (Jill Woolums) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:36:09 -0700

Education Psychology Library - 2600 Tolman Hall.
Circulation: (510) 642-4209. Reference: (510) 642-2475

Social Welfare Library - 227 Haviland Hall.
Circulation and Reference: (510) 642-4432

DOE Library- Central Campus
Circulation: (510) 643-4331. Reference: (510)-642-6657

Bioscience Library - 2101 Valley Life Sciences Building # 6500.
Circulation: (510) 642-2531. Reference: (510) 642-0456

Public Health Library - 1 University Hall, #7360
Circulation and Reference: (510) 642-2511

Find articles and e-books

jwoolums@library.berkeley.edu (Jill Woolums) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:50:29 -0700

Articles
PsycINFO
Core index to articles in psychology.
PubMed
Indexes journals in the field of medicine and psychiatry.
Web of Science
Includes the Science and Social Sciences Citation Index. These let you find "forward citations" -- update your research by finding articles that cite an article.

Books (E-books and print)
WorldCat Catalog of catalogs of US libraries
OskiCat Catalog of the UC Berkeley Library
Melvyl Catalog of the UC Libraries
MIT CogNet
E-books in cognitive and brain sciences published by MIT.
PsychiatryOnline
Contains the DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and several full-text psychiatry journals.
APA e-books
Full text of books from 2009 to present published by the APA.
Springer Electronic Book Package
E-books in many fields including Psychology. (These e-books are also listed by title in Melvyl.)
Wiley eBook Collection. E-books in many fields including psychology. (These e-books are also listed by title in Melvyl.)

Reference

jwoolums@library.berkeley.edu (Jill Woolums) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:50:30 -0700

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Annual Reviews in Psychology

Handbook of Psychology
Corsini Enclyclopedia of Psychology
APA Handbook of Research Methods in Psychology
Sage Handbooks of Qualitative and Quantitative Research in Psychology
Dictionary of Psychology from Oxford Reference Online
DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning (Educational Psychology)
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences provides scholarly overviews on various topics in psychology.
Annual Reviews in Psychology and Annual Reviews in Clinical Psychology are good starting places -- they provide literature reviews of important and emerging areas of research.
Handbook of Social Psychology and Handbook of Adolescent Psychology

Connecting from Off Campus?

jwoolums@library.berkeley.edu (Jill Woolums) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:50:30 -0700

You can access UCB Library resources from off campus or via your laptop or other mobile device using one of two simple methods. (NOTE: Using EndNote? Use VPN, not the Proxy Server)

Proxy Server
After you make a one-time change in your web browser settings, the proxy server will ask you to log in with a CalNet ID or Library PIN when you click on the link to a licensed resource. See the setup instructions, FAQ, and Troubleshooting pages to configure your browser.

VPN (Virtual Private Network)
After you install and run the VPN "client" software on your computer, you can log in with a CalNet ID to establish a secure connection with the campus network.

Google Scholar and UC e-links

jwoolums@library.berkeley.edu (Jill Woolums) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:50:30 -0700

Set up your proxy server access by following the directions at http://proxy.lib.berkeley.edu/. When you get to a point where you are accessing resources that the Library pays for, you will be prompted for your CalNet ID and password.
Change your “Scholar Preferences.” Access these by clicking on the link next to the search box.
In search box next to "Library Links," type in University of California Berkeley and click on “Find Library”
Check box next to "University of California Berkeley - UC-eLinks
Click on "Save Preferences" at bottom of page

Citation Help

jwoolums@library.berkeley.edu (Jill Woolums) — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:50:43 -0700

Citation Management.
Three citation management tools widely used at UC Berkeley are RefWorks, Endnote, and Zotero. Each organizes citations and produces quick and easy bibliographies in many citation styles, including APA 6^th. Learn about other citation and writing tools on the EDP Library's Citation Management webpage.

RefWorks is free for UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff. From many of UC’s databases, importing citations is seamless and easy. Create correctly cited bibliographies, footnotes, and in-text citations. New users can sign up at RefWorks. Find tutorials and tips for using RefWorks on the EDP Library webpage.

Zotero is a free plug-in that works exclusively with the Firefox browser. Sign up and view this tool at zotero.org.

EndNote is software that must be purchased. It’s available from UC Berkeley’s Software Central. Find tutorals and tips for using EndNote via the Library webpage.

APA Style.
Use the APA Publication Manual 6^th edition in the EDP Library. The Manual is not available online. For additional help with APA style, see Citation Management.

Widely cited journals and articles.
ISI Web of Knowledge - Social science citation index provides a "Cited Reference Search" feature which can be searched by cited author, work or year. The ISI database provides "cited by" information on its search results page. ISI's Journal Citation Reports will find a current list of most highly cited journals. It should be noted, however, that ISI is evaluating a highly selective group of journal titles. For example, only 130 education titles, 36 special education titles, and 49 educational psychology titles, a relatively small selection given the large number of journals published in education. See the journal list at ISI WOS for specific titles.

Google Scholar also provides on their initial search results screen a “cited by” link with the total number of citations. PsycInfo, via Proquest, provides "cited by" references for some of its articles.

Search Tips

jwoolums@library.berkeley.edu (Jill Woolums) — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:53:14 -0700

Power search features for most article databases:

Use synonyms -- there are many ways to express a concept (teenager or teenagers or adolescent)
Use truncation to get different forms of the word, for example teenage* will retrieve teenagers, teenager, teenaged, etc.
Use quotation marks when you want an "exact phrase"
Restrict by date -- most will let you find only the most current five years if you chose that limit.

PsycInfo Advanced Searches:

Use "controlled vocabulary" (also called descriptors or subject headings) if the database has them. The PsycInfo Thesaurus is a very powerful tool. It helps you identify articles that are about a topic, not just that have the word in the abstract. For example, if you are looking for the cause of a certain psychological problem, the descriptor "etiology" finds material that looks at causality.
Use the special "limits" or "fields" that the database offers. They really do help you make a more focused and powerful search. PsycInfo lets you use many helpful limits including:
- Methodology-- are you interested in literature reviews? Empirical studies? Clinical trials? Quantitative or qualitative studies?
- Population -- do you want research based on humans? Males vs. females?
- Age of subjects -- adolescents? children? old people?
- Publication type -- do you want articles? dissertations? books?