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Databases

Academic Search Premier	(details/tips)
Cabells Directory	(details/tips)
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works	(details/tips)
Counseling and Therapy in Video	(details/tips)
Dissertations (WorldCat Dissertations via Summit)
Google Scholar	(details/tips)
Mental Measurements Yearbook	(details/tips)
PsycARTICLES	(details/tips)
PsycBOOKS	(details/tips)
PsycCRITIQUES	(details/tips)
PsycINFO	(details/tips)
Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection	(details/tips)
Psychology Collection	(details/tips)

Databases with detailed description and tips

Academic Search Premier
This multidisciplinary database contains indexing and abstracts for over 8,500 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. Over 3,600 journals are peer-reviewed.

Database tips:

Sign-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.

Click on Sign into my EBSCOhost (upper right)
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.

Click on the link to "Subject Terms" (top, left) to search the index of subject terms.
Use the "browse" search box to search for terms.
Select the subject terms that most closely describe your research query.
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".)
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" "article" to eliminate other document types such as speeches or book reviews

Cabells Directory
The Cabells Directory is designed to help professors, graduate students and researchers publish their manuscripts. To access select the directory for Psychology & Psychiatry at the bottom of the page and then click "Access, Selected Directory".

Database tip:

"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 Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works
A searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. New material is added on a biweekly basis and, when complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The database currently includes approximately 14,000 pages of personal accounts, transcripts, and reference material.

Database tips:

Using wildcard and exact phrase searching

By default the full text search retrieves the exact word or phrase you enter into the Search Text box. For example, a full text search for "nation" will retrieve all occurrences of the word “nation” and a search for “true love” will return all instances of the exact phrase "true love."

If you wish to retrieve multiple forms of a word, you can use an asterisk as a wildcard character. An * (asterisk) matches any string of characters at the end of a word (e.g., "nation*" retrieves "nation," "nations," "national," "nationalism," etc.).

Advanced search limiters

You can limit by client gender, age range, marital status and sexual orientation from the drop down menu in advanced search. You can also limit by therapist gender, school of therapy, experience and education in an additional drop down menu in advanced search.

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.)

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. To search by the AC field click on "Search Fields" and mark the box for ac: Acronyms. Note: 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 database contains over 151,000 articles from 77 journals published by the APA, its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. PsycARTICLES is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. It is updated weekly and currency is about 1 week after print issue is mailed.

Database tips:

Sign-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.

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

Constructing search terms

If you need help constructing search terms use the subject index by clicking on the link for "Thesaurus" at the top of the screen.

Cited references

When you run a Basic or Advanced Keyword Search, any Cited References or Times Cited links that are available are presented with your search results. If you click the Cited References hyperlink on a Result, the Cited References Screen presents a list of records cited in your original article. If you select one or more references and click the Related Records button, the Related Records Screen presents a list of records related to your original article. These records are sorted by relevance, based on the greatest number of shared references.

If you click the Times Cited hyperlink on a Result, the Citing Articles Screen presents a list of records that cite your original article.

Search history

All searches performed during your session are available from the Search History/Alerts Screen. To view your search history click the Search History link. The Search History/Alerts window is displayed above the Result List.

Add lines of search statement history to your current search – Select the lines of your search statement by marking the check boxes to the left of the search statements and then click either Search with AND or Search with OR. The lines of search history will be added to the Find field with the appropriate Boolean operator. Click Search to display a new Result List.

View Details – Click a "View Details" link to view the Interface, Search Screen, and Database for that line of your search history

Edit Search – Click the "Edit Search" link. The Edit Search window is displayed. You can modify your search terms in the Find field and make any desired changes to limiters/expanders. Click Save. An updated Result List is displayed.

PsycBOOKS
A database of over 32,000 chapters in PDF from over 2,000 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. It also includes close to 1,500 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology.

Vidoe tutorial:

How to find and view books in PsycBooks from EBSCO

PsycCRITIQUES
Full-text reviews of books and and some popular films, videos, and software as well as comparative reviews of books. Formerly Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. Includes a searchable database dating back to 1956, plus tables of contents for recent weekly releases. There are more than 500 reviews published annually.

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

Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection
A comprehensive database covers about 600 journals, 560 of these are full-text. Topics covered include emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.

Database tips:

Sign-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.

Click on Sign into my EBSCOhost (upper right)
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.

Click on the link to "Subject Terms" (top, left) to search the index of subject terms.
Use the "browse" search box to search for terms.
Select the subject terms that most closely describe your research query.
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".)
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.

Wildcards

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:

*	An asterisk () stands for any number of characters, including none, and is especially useful when you want to find all words that share the same root. For example, pigment matches pigment, pigments, pigmentation, etc. Note that you must enter at least three (3) non-wildcard characters. So a search on o* is not allowed; rather you need to enter: oba*. An asterisk can also be used within a word, but the other wildcards are more precise for this kind of use.
?	A question mark (?) stands for exactly one character and is especially useful when you're uncertain of a spelling. For example, a search like relev?nce means you can match the word relevance even if, like many of us, you can't remember whether it's spelled with ance or ence. A question mark is also useful for finding certain words with variant spellings. For example, defen?e finds both defense (American) and defence (British and Canadian). Multiple question marks in a row stand for the same number of characters as there are question marks. For example, psych????y matches either psychology or psychiatry but not psychotherapy.
!	An exclamation point (!) stands for one or no characters and is especially useful when you want to match the singular and plural of a word but not other forms. For example, product! matches product and products but not productive or productivity. The exclamation point can also be used inside a word to match certain variant spellings. For example, colo!r matches both color (American) and colour (British).

PsycINFO
A renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, PsycINFO is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-nine percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.

Sign-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.

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

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" "article" to eliminate other document types such as speeches or book reviews
Select an "Age Group" such as "Childhood (birth-12yrs)" to focus your search on the age group or groups that you are researching.

Constructing search terms

If you need help constructing search terms use the subject index by clicking on the link for "Thesaurus" at the top of the screen.

Cited references

When you run a Basic or Advanced Keyword Search, any Cited References or Times Cited links that are available are presented with your search results. If you click the Cited References hyperlink on a Result, the Cited References Screen presents a list of records cited in your original article. If you select one or more references and click the Related Records button, the Related Records Screen presents a list of records related to your original article. These records are sorted by relevance, based on the greatest number of shared references.

If you click the Times Cited hyperlink on a Result, the Citing Articles Screen presents a list of records that cite your original article.

Search history

All searches performed during your session are available from the Search History/Alerts Screen. To view your search history click the Search History link. The Search History/Alerts window is displayed above the Result List.

Add lines of search statement history to your current search – Select the lines of your search statement by marking the check boxes to the left of the search statements and then click either Search with AND or Search with OR. The lines of search history will be added to the Find field with the appropriate Boolean operator. Click Search to display a new Result List.

View Details – Click a "View Details" link to view the Interface, Search Screen, and Database for that line of your search history

Edit Search – Click the "Edit Search" link. The Edit Search window is displayed. You can modify your search terms in the Find field and make any desired changes to limiters/expanders. Click Save. An updated Result List is displayed.

E-books

Best way to find ebooks

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

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

Ebrary
Our largest e-book collection. Ebrary provides access to over 45,000 digital titles, over 500 titles in psychology.

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

NetLibrary
Search over 4600 titles. Features:

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

***Mac users defer to the Safari browser

Print books

Search Foxtrax for books at GFU libraries.

You can search by title, author, or subject and discover:

which of our libraries owns it
shelf position (call number)
status (on shelf or checked out)
complete citation

Search Summit and/or WorldCat for books at other libraries.

Through Summit, you have access to the holdings of most academic libraries in the northwest. You can also choose to search the combined Summit/World Catalog. Search either just like you search Foxtrax, and then request what you find. Summit materials arrive in 2-4 business days. You can check Summit books out for 6 weeks with no renewals. Books requested from outside the Summit system can take 10 days to 3 weeks to arrive.

Types of searches that you can use to find books:

A. Title and author searches

If you know the title of a book or the name of an author you can perform a "Title" or "Author" search in Foxtrax or Summit by selecting these field options from a drop-down menu or a tab and entering the title or author name in the search box.

B. Keyword search

A keyword search is the broadest, most flexible search that you can use. It looks for the terms that you enter in any order within all of the fields of the bibliographic record. You can perform a "Keyword" search in Foxtrax or Summit by selecting this field option from a drop down menu or a tab and entering the keyword(s) in the search box. This can be a good way to start your book search but sometimes the results are irrelevant or there are so many that it would take too long to go through them all. If this is the case then a subject search will be more helpful for you.

C. Subject search

A subject search in the catalog is the most direct way to find a book on a specific topic. You can perform a "Subject" search in Foxtrax or Summit by selecting these field options from a drop-down menu or tab and entering the subject heading in the search box. It can be difficult to know or to find the right subject heading to use for this type of search. If you are not sure what term to use as a subject heading then read the tip below for a helpful alternative.

Easiest way to perform a subject search:

- Using a keyword search find one book in the catalog that most closely matches your topic of interest and look at the full record to view the subject headings that are used to describe the content. Click on one of the subject headings to view all materials that have been labeled with the same subject heading or use a combination of subject headings to formulate your own search.

Links to subject searches

Below are links to various subject searches in the catalog that will take you to the records of books that have been tagged with that subject heading.

Psychology

Adjustment (Psychology)

Adolescent psychology

Affect (Psychology)

Assertiveness (Psychology)

Attitude (Psychology)

Behaviorism (Psychology)

Change (Psychology)

Child Psychology

Constructivism (Psychology)

Context effects (Psychology)

Criminal psychology

Developmental psychology

Educational psychology

Ego (Psychology)

Emotions

Ethnopsychology

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939

Genetic psychology

Human behavior

Humanistic psychology

Influence (Psychology)

Individuality

Information theory in psychology

Intellect

James, William, 1842-1910

Memory

Personality

Psychoanalysis

Rational emotive behavior therapy

Reality therapy

Social interaction

Social Psychology

Stress (Psychology)

Subconciousness

Values (Psychological Aspects)

By call number

If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area. Here are some that have been selected for you:

BF 38-80	Philosophy of Psychology
BF 81-149	History of Psychology
BF 150-172	Mind and Body
BF 173-175	Psychological tests & testing, Attitudes, Abnormal Psychology
BF 180-210	Experimental Psychology
BF 231-299	Senses, Sensation
BF 309-499	Cognition, Perception, Learning, Memory
BF 501-504.3	Motivation
BF 511-593	Emotion
BF 608-635	Will, Volition, Choice
BF 636-637	Applied Psychology
BF 638-648	New Thought
BF 660-697	Comparative Psychology, Animal and Human Psychology
BF 698-698.9	Personality
BF 699-711	Genetic Psychology
BF 712-724.85	Developmental Psychology
BF 725-727	Psychology of Special Groups
BF 751-755	Psychology of Nations, National characteristics
BF 761-789	Humanistic Psychology
BF 795-839.5	Temperament, Character
BF 1001-1999	Parapsychology
HD 58.7-58.95	Organizational Behavior
GN 502	Psychological Anthropology
HF 5548.7-5548.85	Industrial Psychology
HM 1041-1101	Social Psychology, Social Perception, Social Cognition
HM 1106-1171	Interpersonal Relations, Social Behavior
HM 1176-1281	Social Influence, Social Pressure
LB 1050.9-1091	Educational Psychology
JA 74.5	Political Psychology
QP 351-495	Neurophysiology and Neuropsychology
R 726	Medicine and Disease in Relation to Psychology
RA 790-790.95	Mental Health, Mental Illness Prevention
RA1151	Forensic Psychiatry
RC49-52	Psychosomatic Medicine
RC 321-346	Neurosciences, Biological Psychiatry
RC 435-475	Psychiatry
RC 475-489	Psycotherapy
RC 490-499	Hypnosis
RC 500-510	Psychoanalysis
RC 512-528	Psychoses
RC 530-552	Neuroses
RC 554-569.5	Psychopathology
RC 569.7-571	Mental retardation, Developmental disabilities
RC 952-954.6	Geriatrics
RC 963-969	Industrial Psychiatry
RJ 499-507	Child Psychiatry
RM 315-334	Neuropsychopharmacology
RM 735	Occupational Therapy
RM 931	Special Therapies A-Z (Art, Dance, Pet, etc)
U 22	Military Psychology

Reference e-books

A-Z of social research

Cambridge handbook of personal relationships

Cambridge handbook of psychology and economic behaviour

Cambridge handbook of sociocultural psychology

Key thinkers in psychology

Stahlonline
Includes Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology, The Prescriber's Guide, Stahl's Illustrated, and more.

Encyclopedias

The concise Corsini encyclopedia of psychology and behavioral science

Edinburgh international encyclopaedia of psychoanalysis

Encyclopedia of applied psychology

Encyclopedia of drugs, alcohol & addictive behavior

Encyclopedia of psychology

International encyclopedia of marriage and family

International encyclopedia of the social sciences

Dictionaries

Chambers dictionary of the unexplained

A dictionary of animal behaviour

A dictionary of psychology

International dictionary of psychoanalysis

Videos

DVD/VHS videos

Build your own search using Foxtrax:

   1. Go to Foxtrax
   2. Select Advanced Search
   3. Enter a keyword in the search box (you can select a search field for subject, title, or author in the drop-down menu)
   4. Limit "Material Type" to "PROJ MEDIUM"

Links to subject searches for videos

Streaming videos

Build your own search using Foxtrax:

   1. Go to Foxtrax
   2. Select Advanced Search
   3. Enter a keyword in the search box (you can select a search field for subject,   title, or author in the drop-down menu)
   4. Limit "Material Type" to "STREAMINGVIDEO"

Link to all streaming videos

If you would like to browse, click here to view the catalog's list of all streaming videos.

Web Resources

BUBL Psychology Page
The BUBL Information service is a networked information service that provides the higher education community with value-added access to Internet resources and services.

Psychology World Wide Web Virtual Library
Keeps track of online psychology information as part of The World Wide Web Virtual Library.

Mental Measurements Resource Guide
This guide from Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries shows you how to find information about psychological tests and how to find the tests themselves.

APPIC Online Directory
A directory of professional psychology internship and postdoctoral training sites throughout the USA and Canada. This site is from the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers.

Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
The Buros home page includes citations to reviews of educational and psychological tests citations; descriptions of tests, and names and addresses of over 900 major commerical test publishers.

Internet Psychology Lab
This multimedia, interactive website presents many of the classic demonstrations and experiments of psychology.

The Personality Project
A well-organized, academic site, with good content and suggestions for further reading.

Nielsen's Psychology of Religion Pages
There is no better website on the psychology of religion.

Social Psychology Network
An excellent portal to the world of social psychology on the Internet.

SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway
A database of several thousand Internet resources, each selected by a librarian or academic. This annotated catalogue is browsable and searchable by subject area.