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GERO 200 The Aging Self: Research Guide

 

SELECTED PSYCHOLOGY DATABASES
PsycINFO  has more than 2 million scholarly articles, book chapters, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. You will be using PsycINFO as your primary source to find the articles you need to complete your assignments this term.

SocINDEX covers a wide array of topics such as adolescent health, aging, end-of-life care, clinical social. work and diversity. Content is organized in a way that makes it easy for users to get answers to questions quickly and easily.

PsycARTICLES contains the full-text of more than 40,000 articles from 53 journals, 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA). Covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical psychology research.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection provides full-text for 575 publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

 

SELECTED MEDICAL DATABASES
Medline coverage includes more than 4,800 current biomedical journals. Covers clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care administration, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides coverage in the fields of nursing and allied health. In addition, this database includes Clinical Pharmacology, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new drugs.

DATABASE FOR GETTING ARTICLES FROM REFERENCE PAGES 

Google Scholar 

 

HANDOUTS


GERO 200 RESEARCH SESSION HANDOUTS

                 + How to Find Articles from the Psychology and Medical Databases 

              + How to Get Articles That Only Have a Find it@WOU Option  

              + How to Find an Article from a Reference Page Using Google Scholar 

              + How to Cite a Journal Article in APA format  

 

 

 

   

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Librarians are in the library lobby Mondays-Thursdays
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

 

APA CITATION HELP