You need | Classic Research
Brief Psychological Research Report
Research Strategy Meeting
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Resources to use |
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Class handout | Introduction to Library Research in Psychology (PDF) |
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References to articles, books, and more on the psychological, social, and behavioral sciences, 1806 to present.
Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.
Search PsycINFO for the article title. For example, "On the Pathogenesis of Some Impulsions" by Pierre Janet
Note that some results are about this work. Be sure to select the result By the primary author of interest.
Search Credo Reference for their full name.
If Credo does not provide a detailed enough entry for your author, try The Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography:
Once you have selected a work of art, read it / view it / listen to it and identify a psychological concept related to it.
Search PsycINFO for one or more keywords related to the concept.
Berthe Morisot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The psychologically related theme in this painting might be "attachment theory".
A PsycINFO search for that phrase turns up over 8,000 results
Narrow it down by using filters like
The Purdue OWL APA guide gives specific instructions about citing audiovisual media (including artwork). Be sure to check it out!
If you start your search at the NEIU Libraries homepage, the links you follow will identify you as an NEIU user. This will help simplify linking to our resources.
Once you do a search in an article database, use links like these to get the full text of the article:
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They will link you to the NEIU Libraries catalog and let you know if we have a subscription to the article, making it available immediately via a link.
If the full text of an article is not available online, you will be directed to request a copy of the article through WorldShare interlibrary loan. Learn more about WorldShare, which you can access with your NEIU NetID and password.