Databases

Databases with detailed description and tips

Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database containing full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.

Database tips:

Signing-up for a personal account with EBSCO 

This account applies to all EBSCO databases that GFU subscribes to and will allow you to save searches and articles and organize your EBSCO research in a customizable file system.

1. Click on Sign into my EBSCOhost (upper right)
2. Click on "I'm a new user", fill out the form and submit.

Searching by subject terms

Subject terms describe the content of the articles and are the best way to find articles about your research subject.

1. Click on the link to "Subject Terms" (top, left) to search the index of subject terms. 
2. Select the subject terms that most closely describe your research query.
3. Click "Add" to send them to the search box.  (Be aware of how you are combining your terms with the Boolean operators.  The default is "OR".)
4. Click "Search" to bring up all relevant articles.

Key limiters to use

In the area below the search boxes there are limiters that you can select which will further refine your search.  

• Select "peer-reviewed" to limit your search to scholary publications
• Select a date range to limit your search to a specific period of time
• Select a "Document Type" such as "article" to eliminate other document types such as speeches or book reviews 
• Select a "Publication Type" such as "periodical" to eliminate other publications such as books or newspapers

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Cabells Directory
The Cabells Directory is designed to help professors, graduate students and researchers publish their manuscripts.  

Database tip:

• Select the directory for Psychology & Psychiatry at the bottom of the page.
• "Type of Review" specifies blind, editorial or optional review methods. A blind review indicates the reviewer(s) does not know who wrote the manuscript. An editorial review indicates the reviewer knows who wrote the manuscript. The term "optional" indicates the author may choose either one of these types of review.

Counseling and Therapy in Video
Online collection of video for the study of psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.

Database tips:

Using the video player and transcript features 

The video player and transcript features are designed to work together to let you explore and drill down in the video to suit your interest and research. 

• You can read the entire transcript in the transcript pane, the first of the tabbed panes at center right, or by clicking the "Transcript" icon in the Toolbar at the top of the screen.
• You can turn synchronization off and on with the "Sync" check box at the top right of the transcript pane.

Searching and/or navigating the video and/or transcript

• Click any word in the transcript to jump to that point in the video.
• Conduct a transcript search in the Search box above the video pane, and use the hits shown to jump to that point in the video and transcript. (Note that you can search the transcript from the Quick and Advanced Searches as well.)

Dissertation Abstracts
Covers Ph.D. dissertations granted at accredited North American universities since 1861, selected master's theses since 1962, and citations for dissertations from 50 British and European universities since 1988.

Database tips:

Searching for names

• Enter names in Last(Family) First(Given) Middle format. Do not include a comma between the last and first name.
• Use the "Author Phrase" index when searching for common names. A phrase index contains groups of words or names exactly as they appear in the record. 
• Use the "Author" index if you are unsure of the order of names or the names are uncommon or contain accents or diacritical marks. 

Google Scholar
Use this link to have Google Scholar recognize you as a George Fox user, and link you to our full text subscriptions. Google Scholar indexes a broad array of scholarly literature.

Search tips:

Searching by author

• Enter the author’s name in quotation marks.
• Use initials for first name to increase results.

            Example:  "p miller"

• Use “author:” to hone results.

            Example:  author:"p miller"

Searching by title

• Place the full title of the article in quotations.

Advanced Scholar Search

• Click on "Advanced Scholar Search" to set a date range or limit your search to a specific subject area.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Offers more than 2,000 commercially-available educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests.  Each entry includes test name and classification; author(s); publisher, publication date; price; time requirements; score descriptions; levels; and intended populations. Mental Measurements Yearbook is updated every six months to ensure timely access to new test information.  Click here for a list of video tutorials.

Database tip:

Searching by test acronym 

• You can search by the Acronym (AC) field which contains the acronym of the test described in the record. Acronyms are listed only if the author or publisher has made substantial use of the acronym in referring to the test, or if the test is widely known by the acronym.

PsycARTICLES
The full-text of 53 journals, most published by the APA.  Click here for a list of video tutorials.

Database tip:

Getting started 

• Select the PsycArticles limiter before each search.

Additional limiters

After you have run your first search additional limits become available.  Select the "additional limits" button and limit your search by:

• Journal subsets
• Star rankings
• Publication types

PsycBOOKS
Full-text of over 1700 books, most published by the APA. Each chapter is available as a separate pdf.

Database tips:

Stopwords 

• Stopwords have been eliminated from this database. You can now search for words or phrases like is there hope.tw.  Previously such searches would have returned an error because they included stopwords.

Searching in the Abstracts (AB) field  

The Abstracts (AB) field includes abstracts written or edited by the American Psychological Association (APA) for journal articles. APA abstracts contain information specifically targeted to be of use with various forms of literature.

• For example, experimental and empirical articles will always contain the purpose of the study, the hypothesis, the subject population, methodology, results and significant conclusions. Names and genres of instruments used are included wherever possible, as well as names, dosage and route of administration of drugs.

PsycCRITIQUES
Full-text reviews of books in psychology. Formerly Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books.

Database tips:

Limiters

• Narrow your search by selecting classification codes that apply to your topic.  Find this option in the green area below the search box.
• Narrow your search by selecting the document type that you are looking for such as a book review or editorial.  Find this option in the green area below the search box.

Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection
A comprehensive database covers about 600 journals with topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.

Database tips:

Signing-up for a personal account with EBSCO 

This account applies to all EBSCO databases that GFU subscribes to and will allow you to save searches and articles and organize your EBSCO research in a customizeable file system.

1. Click on Sign into my EBSCOhost (upper right)
2. Click on "I'm a new user", fill out the form and submit.

Searching by subject terms

Subject terms describe the content of the articles and are the best way to find articles about your research subject.

1. Click on the link to "Subject Terms" (top, left) to search the index of subject terms. 
2. Select the subject terms that most closely describe your research query.
3. Click "Add" to send them to the search box.  (Be aware of how you are combining your terms with the Boolean operators.  The default is "OR".)
4. Click "Search" to bring up all relevant articles.

Key limiters to use

In the area below the search boxes there are limiters that you can select which will further refine your search.  

• Select "peer-reviewed" to limit your search to scholary publications
• Select a date range to limit your search to a specific period of time
• Select a "Document Type" such as "article" to eliminate other document types such as speeches or book reviews 

Psychology Collection 
Access to 200 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

Database tips:

Signing-up for a personal account with Gale

When you register for your free Gale user account, you will able to save and organize your marked items; request search alerts and RSS feeds; and name and organize search queries. To register click the "Sign In" link at the top of the screen.

Using the Subject option

Use the Subject option of the Search box on the home page to search for topics such as academic disciplines, companies, events, laws, geographic locations, organizations, people, etc. using a hierarchical Subject Guide developed by Gale editors. This is a good search to use when beginning your research or when you want to look for related subjects.

When typing in terms in the search box, it is usually best to search for only one or two words. If you enter more than one word, enter the most important word first, even if that looks backward.

To browse the entire list of subjects, known as the Subject Guide, click the Browse Subjects button on the search type bar.

Basic search by "Entire document"

The Entire document option of the Search box on the home page looks for any word or words within the entire text of all documents in the database(s) you are searching, as well as in the fields of information included in the Keyword search. This is a good search to use if you are looking for a particular line of text or an unusual phrase.

Sometimes you might want to find more than just exact matches to a search term. Wildcards let you substitute symbols for one or more letters.

With wildcards, you can match

• both the singular and plural forms of a word
• words that begin with the same root
• words that can be spelled in different ways
• words that you're not sure how to spell

There are three wildcard operators:

PsycINFO
This bibliographic database covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines.  This is a bibliographic database with abstracts covering 1806 to the present.  Click here for a list of video tutorials.

Database tip:

Advanced searching

Select "OVID Advanced Search" to utilize the subject heading mapping feature (selected by default).  Enter your term to "map" your search to the best matches in the subject heading index.  Using subject headings in your search is powerful because they describe the aboutness of the document.  

Search fields 

• Use All searchable Fields (AF) to simultaneously search in all searchable fields in the database. Example: drug abuse.af
• The Key Concepts (ID) field concisely summarizes a document's subject content. Indexers use the Key Concepts to supplement Subject Headings (SH). For experimental literature, Key Concepts typically contain the independent variable, the dependent variable, and the subject population. For non-experimental literature, Key Concepts consist of major concepts, time lines, populations, implications, or genre -- whatever information the indexer thinks will supplement other indexing information.
• The Subject Headings (SH) field contains the Subject Headings (also known as "descriptors" or "index terms") from the American Psychological Association's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. Indexers at the APA use the terms to describe the topic or content of a document. Subject headings which describe the major point (focus) of a document are preceded with an asterisk (*). You can look up any of these terms by using the pull-down Thesaurus tool.

Ebooks

Search the GFU library catalog FoxTrax to find ebooks by subject, title, author or keyword.

1. Go to Advanced Search
2. Enter your search term (you can select a search field for subject, title, or author in the drop-down menu)
3. Under the limiter “Material Type” select “EBOOKS”
4. Submit your search

Largest GFU ebook collections

PsycBooks
Full text of over 1500 books, most published by the American Psychological Association.  Each chapter is available as a separate pdf.

MyiLibrary
MyiLibrary provides access to ebooks from major academic publishers.
***Mac users defer to the Safari browser until further notice.

NetLibrary 
Our largest collection of ebooks with over 4600 titles.  Features:

• Links from the table of contents
• An embedded dictionary
• Full-text searching
• Page-by-page or chapter-by-chapter access

Print Books

Reference Ebook

Videos

Web Resources

PsycARTICLES Current TOC

Google Search: Counseling

Professional Organizations

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