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UT Arlington Library - Databases, Academic Search Premier (ASP)




Assumption: Need references, want to identify articles or chapters



PsycINFO
1887 to current
References only, links to full text
Specific Psyc-focused Subject terms

UT Arlington Library's Subscription is in the EBSCO family

Limits:
Age
Species
Language
Document type (articles, books, peer review, types of research)

Excellent for comprehensive, specific, larger papers
Not full text itself, may link to other UT Arlington subscribed databases, e-journals, catalog or Interlibrary Loan

Search Techniques

Refine tab & Limits (PsycINFO), (ASP); Search History ; Truncation: * ; Proximity OperatorNear” (N) – ex. N5, terms within 5 words of each other; Thesaurus (PsycINFO) / Subject Term (ASP); Classification Codes (PsycINFO only); Cited Reference Searching (ASP & PsycINFO), (Web of Knowledge), (hopeful)

 


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Helen Hough, Psychology Librarian, University of Texas at Arlington Library, Box 19497, Arlington, TX, 76019; hough@uta.edu
09/26/2006