PSY MIND & BEHAVIOR Marie Accardi Reference Librarian October 18, 2008

General Information You will need a Student ID card for access to library databases and to take out books. Log in to our library homepage:

Dowling Library Homepage

Resources for Research Dictionaries Encyclopedias Books Journal Articles Databases: by Subject or Name Search engines Library’s web site

Books You may search the catalog by subject From the library homepage go to Quick Links and select Catalog. For a beginning search use “keyword” and type in Psychology. For more specific books use “subject” and type in Psychology. You may limit your search further by selecting “limit search” from the blue boxes at the top of the page.

Finding Journal Articles From the library homepage, click on “Databases by Name.” Click on the letter “p” and scroll down until you come to “PsycARTICLES” or “PsychINFO” and click again. Above the search box in blue lettering, you will see “Choose Databases.” Click on both “PsychARTICLES” and “PsychINFO”. You will now be searching both at the same time.

Databases with Articles Contains material published in magazines, journals, and newspapers Ageline Child Care & Early Education Research Connections MEDLINE via EBSCO MEDLINE via FirstSearch NTIS (National Technical Information Service) Ask librarian for password NTIS (National Technical Information Service) ProQuest Research: Social Sciences PsycARTICLES PsycINFO SAGE Journals Online (full text from ) Multi-Purpose Full Text Databases

Reference Sources Includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories and more. Dissertation Abstracts Dissertation Express Dissertations & Dowling Foundation Directory Online In-library use only. Ask librarian to log in. Foundation Directory Online International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (IESBS) International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (IESBS) Mental Measurements Yearbook (new interface) ORO: Politics and Social Sciences PapersFirst ProceedingsFirst General

APA Citation style For an easy to use guide for APA citations click on the following link: op/citapa.htm You may have to cut and paste into your browser.

Avoiding plagiarism What is plagiarism, exactly? According to the Dowling College Student Handbook, "plagiarism is the act of representing someone else's ideas, products, or words as one's own" (p. 21). Basically, it's stealing. Most plagiarism occurs when students don't pay close attention to what they're doing during the research and writing process. Here are the most common causes of inadvertent plagiarism: Sloppy note-taking. Cutting and pasting from websites. Cutting and pasting from electronic journal articles. Forgetting to put quotes around someone else's words. Forgetting to add a citation to a paraphrase. Omitting a citation for a table, graph, or photograph used in a paper or presentation.

Plagiarism-continued However, you may not realize that there are some other forms of plagiarism to avoid, too, such as: Purchasing a paper from an online vendor and turning it in. Borrowing a paper from a friend (who's already taken the class) and turning it in. Turning in a paper you wrote from another class without telling the professor.

Turn It In Go to and create your own student user profile. Enter the class # and password provided. For each assignment you will submit papers by uploading them from a disk/hard drive, or cutting and pasting from a document. Turnitin accepts Mircosoft Word, WordPerfect, Postscript, PDF, HTML, RTF, and plain text. For any questions or comments, please contact Dowling’s Turnitin account administrator: Chris Kretz (x3396) 01/30/08