Psychology Research Help

. . . now in a wiki!!!!

I am currently in the process of moving my help guides over to a wiki platform.

Please go to Psychology Research Help to find the guides.

Psychology Research Resources

As back-up to my classroom instruction sessions for psychology, I am providing some help guides here in Periodical World.

All of these help guides are under the Pages heading on the right side blog menu; they are also linked from this post.

There are several selections, each with a slightly different focus:

• Empirical Research: what is empirical research and how to recognize it
  

• Psychology Research Using PsycINFO: a page about PsycINFO with links to a printable MSWord document explaining PsycINFO searching as well as to pdf documents on Methodologies and fields in PsycINFO records
  

• Using PubMed for Research: how to search for research articles in PubMed
  

Also, knowing how to cite your sources is of critical importance. The library’s general help page for all subjects is linked here.

A specific source for finding writing help and teaching resources in the APA Style, as well as others, is The OWL (online writing lab) at Purdue University.

Northern Michigan University has an excellent online tutorial with a flash video presentation on APA Style for referencing online articles using the doi (digital object identifier), a unique alpha-numeric code for linking to permanent record versions of journal articles. Here is a link to an earlier blog post about those new APA guidelines for documenting electronic resources: APA style guide to electronic references.

A few words about the APA style when writing papers:

In addition to the General APA Guidelines for formating a paper, there are two common types of papers psychology students will be asked to write or to review: the literature review and the experimental report.

Each has unique requirements concerning the sections that must be included in the paper; specific information can be found at the OWL site at Purdue University.

I hope students & faculty find this resource useful for reviewing, or expanding on, what I cover in a library instruction session that is sometimes too short on time.

Please feel free to use the comments as a way to ask questions or get more guidance.