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PSY 101 - Intro to Psychology: Michael Peters: Articles and Videos

Resources to assist you in researching your Intro to Psychology presentation.

Access

Note: You will need to use your Single Sign-On user name and password to access some library resources.

Where Do I find Articles?

The best place to find articles is to search the library's databases. They contain magazines, journals, newspapers, reference books, video files, audio files, and podcasts. 

What databases will be the best for this project? 

You can search any of the Databases for Social Sciences.

Kirtland librarians recommend the following:

 

An InfoTrac Power Search will search many databases at once. 

Other Helpful Guides

Peer Reviewed Articles

Some journal articles are peer reviewed.  Peer reviewed articles carry more authority than other articles because their content has been reviewed by subject experts prior to publication.  Databases allow you to limit your search to peer reviewed materials.  By doing so, you assure that the resources you are using are reliable and acceptable for scholarly work.

 

In Gale's Health and Wellness Resource Center database just below the search box are options for limiting your search. Instead of the term peer-reviewed, the term refereed publications is used. Check refereed publications to limit your search to peer-reviewed materials.

 

You may not always have the option to limit your results to peer reviewed articles on the first screen.  You might need to do an advanced search or complete a search and then select peer reviewed on the results screen.

 

Gale Health Reference Center Academic is an example of a database which provides the option to limit results to peer reviewed journals on the results page. There, choose peer reviewed from the list of filters found on the right side of the screen. Notice this screen offers other helpful features such as the ability to sort by relevance and view subjects.

Films on Demand - Psychology

Watch segments or entire documentaries and educational films.

Many titles provide transcripts (look at the tabs in the box to the right) which can be helpful when citing. Some also allow searching within a transcript to more easily find relevant information, however you need to scroll through the transcript to look for highlighted terms.  It does not automatically jump to them.