RESOURCES & SERVICES in Psychology Blog

Self-Managed Current Awareness Defined:
The art of saving searches and setting up auto-alerts using databases and journals.

Need to be kept up to date on a particular topic or research area?
Learn how to use current awareness features in several popular social science databases.

What will current awareness features allow me to do?
*set up permanent searches.
*save a search you have created and run it manually whenever you wish.
*receive email updates (auto-alerts) when new research matching your search criteria is added to the database.
*set up table of contents (TOC) alerts.

Which databases allow me to use current awareness features?

The short answer is several!! However, you are likely using many social science databases powered by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).

Instructions for setting up auto-alerts are available at the Education and Social Science Library’s Self-Managed Current Awareness page.

Current Awareness and Auto-Alert features are also available for journals and many other databases

The Funk (ACES) Library has compiled an extensive list of instructions on
setting up Table of Contents (TOC) alerts listed by publisher or alerting service (e.g. SAGE, Haworth, Elsevier, etc.).

Ready to get started? Need to learn more?
See the Education and Social Science Library’s Self-Managed Current Awareness page.
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Questions?
Please contact me...
Allison Sutton, Psychology & Social Work Subject Specialist
Email: asutton@illinois.edu
Voice: 217-244-1866
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Student and Faculty Introductory APA Research Databases Training Webinars

The American Psychological Association is pleased to invite you to attend a free webinar designed specifically to introduce you to the APA Research Databases on various vendor platforms. Led by PsycINFO Customer Relations trainers, these 50-minute sessions are intended for students, faculty, or library staff unfamiliar with APA databases or who are accessing APA databases on a platform that is new to them.

Learning Objectives
* become familiar with the APA research databases and the platform
features
* manage your results
* create alerts
* set up personal accounts
* craft searches that make use of controlled vocabulary and natural language
* use database fields and limits

Audience:

This session is designed primarily for students but is also suitable for faculty or library staff unfamiliar with APA databases or who are accessing APA databases on a platform that is new to them.

Schedule and Registration:

Webinars are hosted on Adobe Connect and all times listed are Eastern Time.
Note: The University Library subscribes via CSA, but some of you may have access via your individual APA subscription.

APA Research Databases on CSA Illumina March 25, 2010=092:00 pm
APA Research Databases on CSA Illumina April 26, 2010=099:00 am
APA Research Databases on CSA Illumina May 19, 2010=09=092:00 pm

APA Research Databases on APA PsycNET March 16, 2010=0911:00 am
APA Research Databases on APA PsycNET April 13, 2010=096:00 pm
APA Research Databases on APA PsycNET May 6, 2010=09=094:00 pm

To register, visit our Webinars registration page for Students and Faculty
at http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/training/webinars-students.aspx and
click on the link for the session you'd like to attend.

Questions?

Please feel free to send any questions or comments to
psycinfowebinars@apa.org with "Student Training" in the subject line.

You can find information on and support for all of APAs research
databases on
YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/PsycINFO),
Facebook(http://www.facebook.com/apapsycnet),
or Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/apapsycnet).

Or visit us at our dedicated search
help/training center at
http://www.apa.org/pubs/databases/training/index.aspx

SAVVY RESEARCHER WORKSHOPS presents...

Scholarly Communication Workshops
(Note: All sessions are in Room 314 of the main library.)

Practical Copyright: Considerations for Teaching and Research
You're writing a thesis or preparing to teach your course, but you have a lot of concerns about being ethical and abiding by copyright law. Please remember that librarians cannot give you advice regarding copyright issues, but we can steer you in the right direction to find answers to your questions.
Mon, 2/22, 4-5:30 pm; Thur, 2/25, 3-4:30pm

Understanding Open Access
Are you wondering what the fuss is about open access? The movement for open access to publications - that is, publications that are freely and openly available to anyone to access - has been steadily gaining momentum. Come to this workshop to learn about open access journals as well as self-archiving your work into a repository such as Illinois' IDEALS ( http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/).
Tue, 2/23, 2-3pm

Journal Impact Factors: A Tool to Help Identify Key Research in Your Field
Most frequently used in the sciences, and to some extent in the social sciences, impact factor is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" published in a given scholarly journal has been cited. Use this to your advantage when you decide where to publish your research.
Thursday, 2/25, 10-11am

Your Research Rights: Ownership Awareness to Maximize the Impact
You're going to be published - congratulations! Come to this session and learn about what your rights as an author are and how to negotiate with publishers for the rights that you need to retain.
Fri, 2/26, 1-2:30pm

Find OTHER Workshops

The newest edition of the APA Publication Manual is now available in the Education & Social Science Library.

Call #029Am4p 2010

What’s New in the Sixth Edition?

Book has been updated to acknowledge and incorporate advances in computer technology.

* New discussions of the creation, submission, and storage of supplemental data.
* New guidelines for referencing electronic sources.
* New and expanded reference examples for a variety of on-line sources.
* Redesigned APAstyle website, expanded to provide tutorials, on-line courses, and other resources for learning APA style.

Book has been reorganized and streamlined for ease of use

* Organized to describe the writing process from idea to publication, it begins with background information on ethical issues in publishing, then moves on to manuscript structure and content, then writing style and rules, then graphics and references, then guidance on working with the publisher.
* Sample paper section has been moved up and featured to better exemplify manuscript structure and content
* Like discussions have been moved to one place in the book, with discussions of function followed by instruction on form.

Focus has been broadened to include readers in the behavioral and social sciences.

* Information specific to APA has been moved to the web, where it is more broadly accessible and can be updated frequently.
* New examples throughout the book have been drawn from publications in education, business, and nursing as well as psychology.

Key to this edition of the Publication Manual is an updated and expanded Web presence.

Visit APAstyle.org to

* Look up additional supplemental material keyed to the book
* Test your knowledge of APA Style with a free tutorial on style basics
* Learn about the changes in the sixth edition with a free tutorial reviewing key revisions
* Sign up for an on-line course to enrich and enhance your understanding of APA Style
* Read the APA Style blog and share your comments on writing and referencing
* Consult frequently asked questions to sharpen your understanding of APA Style
* Examine additional resources on such topics as ethics, statistics, and writing
* Familiarize yourself with submission standards for APA books and journals

Greetings Psychology Graduate Students!

The Education and Social Science Library (ESSL) offers many services and resources to assist you with your class work, research and other projects.

I have posted several handy links listed here...

Education and Social Science Library

Education and Social Science Library Hours

Stout Library

Guide to Psychology Resources

Learn to use the Library

Library Workshops

Data Services Help
Get help finding opinion polls, election studies, social surveys, census, education, and health data; and preparing datasets for analysis in SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS.
No Appointment Necessary!

Ask-a-Librarian
(For online chat and IM reference assistance)

Please contact me using the online instruction request form, by phone or via email if you are a TA and would like to schedule a library orientation/database instruction session for your class group. I am also happy to meet with you individually to discuss library services and collections to support your research needs.

The Education & Social Science Library continues to expand our Web and electronic resources to assist you in locating the materials that you need, while still providing trained staff to assist you at our reference desk from 9am until we close on weekdays, and during all open hours on weekends.

I look forward to working with you!

Best regards,

Allison

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Data Service Office Hours
continue through June 11, 2008

Wednesdays 1:30-4:30 pm
Government Documents Library (2nd floor of the Main Library)

Get help finding opinion polls, election studies, social surveys, census, education, and health data; and preparing datasets for analysis in SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS.

No Appointment Necessary!
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For more information about using digital survey data sources, see:
Data Services @ The University Library
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/research/dataservices.html

Jointly sponsored by the University Library and Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences (ATLAS)
Enhance and expand your research, writing, and teaching with data

Health, Economic, Social & Political Data for Secondary Analysis

WHEN: Thursday, April 10th

WHERE: Undergrad Library 291

TIME: 3:30-4:30pm

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. Learn to search
ICPSR's catalog of holdings, download data, and read it into a statistics
program (SPSS) to make tables. Our examples will focus on topics
suggested by the audience. Some prior experience with SPSS may be
helpful, but is not necessary.

Register now (preferred, but NOT required)
OR Find out about upcoming and past workshops:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/instruction/workshops.html

The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) has recently launched an APA style online tutorial.

The tutorial, a collaboration between Gutman Library's Writing Services and the Learning Technologies Center (HGSE IT), is based on a highly regarded and well-attended workshop entitled, "APA EXPOSED : Everything You Always Wanted to Know About APA Format But Were Afraid to Ask!" Wendy Mages, an HGSE doctoral student, developed the content and taught the workshop for the past several years under the auspices of the Gutman Library Writing Services. In collaboration with Allison Harrington, Instructional Technology Designer for the Learning Technologies Center, Wendy Mages transferred the content of the in-person workshop to an online version.

The online APA tutorial has been designed to supplement the HGSE in-person workshop, but will serve any student well as a stand-alone resource. It provides... point-of-need assistance, and to facilitate student access to citation "how-to" information for APA format. Additionally, the tutorial has self-checks and additional resources for APA citation information.

NOTE: Please keep in mind that this resource is geared toward Harvard students and will at times refer to their library and campus resources. The tutorial, however, is very well done and useful to anyone using the APA citation style.

If you're interested, please take a look at the APA tutorial, which is currently undergoing beta testing.

APA tutorial URL: http://gseacademic.harvard.edu/~instruct/articulate/APA/player.html

Carla Lillvik, Research and Distance Services Librarian at Harvard Graduate School of Education welcomes your feedback at: http://poll.icommons.harvard.edu/poll/taker/pollTakerOpen.jsp?poll=1-6134-12670

A new partnership has been formed to provide better data-related services!

The University Library and ATLAS are experimenting with ways to collaborate in providing robust support for faculty and students who are using numeric data sets for research and teaching.

Pilot projects launched in Spring 2008 include Data Services Office Hours (Wednesday 1:30-4:30 pm, 200-D Main Library), where staff from ATLAS and librarians with a wide range of expertise will work together to provide reference and technical consultation to help users identify and use data.

Services offered include: acquiring data sets needed for teaching and research; locating, downloading and preparing data for secondary analysis; identifying and creating course materials and teaching tools (including customized data sets drawn from various data repositories) and consulting about software problems. No appointment necessary!

If the Spring 2008 pilot is successful, these hours and services will be expanded.

MORE INFORMATION: (217) 244-6445 or atlas-consult@uiuc.edu
Web site: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/research/dataservices.html

Self-help Options:
*Online Tutorials: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/research/data_tutorials.html

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Allison Sutton
Psychology & Social Work Subject Specialist
Education & Social Science Library
asutton@uiuc.edu
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REMINDER:

I am offering optional library research sessions primarily designed for new graduate psychology students, but open to all. Advance registration is not required. Feel free to drop in.

Friday, September 7--- 2:00 – 4:00pm
Friday September 14-- 2:00 – 4:00pm
*Note: */Sessions will be held in the Undergraduate Library's Computer Lab 291/

What will be covered?
*Building effective search strategies using PsycINFO and discussion of the current problems with the new CSA interface.
*Online citation tracing techniques using Web of Science.
*Effective use of the Online Research Resources (the ORR) database.
*Tips on setting up auto alerts for research updates.
*Tips on getting started with RefWorks, a citation management software tool.
Note: I will save time for answering questions you have about library
resources and services and offer any tips I can to help you./

TEACHING ASSISTANTS:
If you would like schedule a library research session for an undergraduate class group, please do not hesitate to contact me. I still have some availability in the coming weeks. See my instruction web page for more information:

If you have questions please contact me:
Allison Sutton
Psychology Librarian
asutton@uiuc.edu