RESOURCES & SERVICES in Psychology Blog

What exactly is RefWorks?
and
How can RefWorks make my research and writing process easier?

RefWorks gathers, and stores citations from books, articles and websites organizing them into bibliographies using common styles like APA, MLA and many others.

A few specifics...
• Export records from databases to Refworks seamlessly—takes the tedium out of reference tracking
• Access your personal citation database from anywhere—on campus, at home, or abroad—via the Web
• Insert references directly into Word, using citation style of your choice, with Write N Cite feature
• NEW! All citations in RefWorks have a UIUC "Discover" link, allowing you quick access to the e-version
of journal articles, and more.

Learn more about RefWorks:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/

The Library is offering a series of basic workshops on using RefWorks.
For information on workshop dates, times, and registration refer to the library's event calendar at: http://130.126.32.16/evanced/lib0/eventcalendar.asp

No time to attend a workshop?
There is also an excellent online tutorial for RefWorks:
http://www.refworks.com/tutor

Questions?
Please contact me...

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Allison M. Sutton, Assistant Professor
Psychology & Social Work Subject Specialist/Librarian
Education & Social Science Library
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Email: asutton@uiuc.edu

Voice: 217-244-1866
Fax: 217-333-2214
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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

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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