Psychology Paper

For option 1 you are to use at least 2 journal articles. Journal articles should be used after you have gotten all your basic information for your paper. They are used to lay out a thesis or some major topic that you are presenting in your paper. To find these , when you read your textbook, watch for some of their citations. If they seem to hit on some topic that you are interested in exploring as a thesis topic, go to the book’s reference page and look at the reference. By looking at the title of the work, you can decide if that is the topic you are wanting to explore in depth. If so, write down the reference. If it is s a journal article, we likely have it, and if not, it can be retrieved through inter-library loan. When getting information from The American Psychiatry Association textbook of psychiatry (2008), when reading a particular chapter, you can click on citations that appear to hit on a topic you are interested in exploring. By clicking on this citation, it will take you to the reference page so you can get the information needed to retrieve this source. If it is a book, we can get it through Inter Library Loan (ILL) or from our databases.

When reading Kaplan & Sadock’s comprehensive textbook of psychiatry , if you find a citation that looks like you need it to make some points about your thesis, go the reference page and write down that reference if it seems like it will give you information that will be helpful.

Newspaper articles are not journal articles and can only be used for a specific reason, but not as a professional reference. Many times newspapers or magazines refer to research, and by getting the name of the author leading the research and where it was published, you can go look up this journal. Always go to the source whenever possible.

ACCESSING APA JOURNALS

If your journal article is a psychology journal, likely we have it. Here is how you find it. (1.) write down the reference completely. (2.) Go to the pulaskitech homepage. (3.) click on library (4.) click on databases by subject (4.) on the next page select ‘Psychology’. (5.) Next page click on PsycARTICLES’ (6.) at this point you need to login as you do for Campus Connect. (7.) enter the information you collected into the search engine and that will bring up the article for you to download.

USING PSYCHIATRY ONLINE (journals)

Go to the pulaskitech homepapge. (1) click on library (2.) Click on ‘Databases by subject (3.) Click on ‘Psychology’ (4.) click on ‘PsychiatryOnline’ (5.) login (6.) under DSM you will see the ‘Current Journal of Pyschiatry’ that you may wish to peruse and on the right side of the page you will see “Topics’. These will give you current journals and topics that you may wish to use.

ACCESSING OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES

If you find a journal that is a medical journal of various types, it may be that we have these in our database. One must know exactly the name , date, volume, author, etc. in order to locate it on the database. Go to the pulasktech homepage. (1.) Click ‘library’. (2.) click ‘Journal Locator (3.) Type in name of journal or click on the letter that begins the title of that journal you are interested in locating. (4.) complete your search.