Off The Shelf

As a Capella librarian, I encourage everyone to use the Capella Library to find scholarly and peer-reviewed resources to support your assignments.  That said, there are times when it is appropriate to turn to the open Web, such as when you need data sets,  current event information, or background information to help you get started on a topic. (Though don’t forget we have great subject-specific encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries in the library!)

It’s easy to find websites on the Internet, but how do you know if they’re any good? Use the library’s Evaluating Internet Sources guide!  It includes a checklist and other information that will help you critically evaluate websites so that you can determine their value for your research.

-Kim

https://campus.capella.edu/web/library/home

The librarians are teaching two webinars coming up within the next week.  Spend an hour to pick up some new skills that could save you days down the road!

RefWorks Webinar:  Thursday, May 10, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT

RefWorks is a research management tool that helps you collect, organize, and store citations from library databases and other resources.  If you haven’t been using this handy tool to take control and organize your research process, sign up for a RefWorks webinar today!

The webinar will cover the basics of creating an account, sending articles to RefWorks,  organizing folders, and creating APA formatted bibliographies.  Time will be provided to answer any ReWorks questions you may still have.

If you have a different learning style, or if you simply can’t make this webinar, our RefWorks information page  includes helpful guides, video tutorials and a recording of an earlier webinar to help you get started.

“Searching Databases for Articles” Webinar:  Saturday, May 12, 2012, 10:00 AM CDT 

Get better results for the topics you search in the library databases!  If you ever get too many or too few results or results that don’t seem on-topic, then this is a great webinar for you!  Learn how to become a more effective researcher by signing up for our “Searching Databases” webinar.

If the timing of this webinar doesn’t work out for you, see our Library Guides.  We have guides and tutorials that are available 24/7 and can help you with everything from finding an article for a discussion post, to helping you prepare for your dissertation.

If you have any questions about these webinars, or other library resources, please contact the library.

-Kim

Do you like searching Summon, but wish that you could create more detailed searches?  Well, you can!  Summon has an Advanced Search link that you can click on that works much in the same way that Google Scholar’s does.

1.  Move your cursor over the Library menu option in iGuide and choose Summon.

2.  Choose the Advanced Search link under the search box.

The Advanced Search lets you search by title, author or ISBN.   However, you can also check out the Search Tips page  of our Summon database guide for information about how you can use Boolean Operators (AND, OR), quotation marks and other techniques to create some types of advanced searches quickly on your own without having to click through to the Advanced Search feature.

-Kim

The library has two webinars coming up this week, so now is your chance to spend an hour picking up some skills that could help you with the rest of your program!

“Searching Databases for Articles” Webinar:  Thursday, April 12, 2012, 7:00 PM CDT

Get better results for the topics you search in the library databases!  If you ever get too many or too few results or results that don’t seem on-topic, then this is a great webinar for you!  Learn how to become a more effective researcher by signing up for our “Searching Databases” webinar.

If the timing of this webinar doesn’t work out for you, see our Library Guides.  We have guides and tutorials that are available 24/7 and can help you with everything from finding an article for a discussion post, to helping you prepare for your dissertation.

 

RefWorks Webinar:  Saturday, April 14, 2012, 10:00 AM CDT

RefWorks is a research management tool that helps you collect, organize, and store citations from library databases and other resources.  If you haven’t been using this handy tool to take control and organize your research process, sign up for a RefWorks webinar today!

The webinar will cover the basics of creating an account, sending articles to RefWorks,  organizing folders, and creating APA formatted bibliographies.  Time will be provided to answer any ReWorks questions you may still have.

If this webinar time doesn’t work out for you, our RefWorks information page  includes helpful guides, video tutorials and a recording of an earlier webinar to help you get started.

If you have any questions about these webinars, or other library resources, please contact the library.

-Kim

National Library Week runs from  April 8-14, so Happy National Library Week to all our Capella learners!

Don’t forget to celebrate the fact that the  Capella University Library is here to help you with your research and library-related needs.    Here’s a library guide to help you get prepared for the quarter start on Monday, April 9th:  Finding Your Course Readings.

Give a shout out to the librarians at your local public libraries or your children’s school libraries for all the fine services they offer, too!

-Kim

PsycBOOKS added the following titles to its coverage list in February 2012. Of the titles added, 4 were APA books and 60 were designated Classic Books.

Classic books are landmark titles in psychology and are selected by APA experts.

APA Books

1.How intimate partner violence affects children: Developmental research, case studies, and evidence-based intervention, © 2011, by Graham-Bermann, Sandra A. (Ed.); Levendosky, Alytia A. (Ed.).  ISBN: 1-4338-0930-3

2.Inside the session: What really happens in psychotherapy, © 2011, by Wachtel, Paul L. ISBN: 1-4338-0940-0

3.Perceived organizational support, © 2011, by Eisenberger, Robert; Stinglhamber, Florence. ISBN: 1-4338-0933-8

4.Rehabilitating sexual offenders: A strength-based approach, © 2011, by Marshall, William L. (Ed); Marshall, Liam E.  (Ed); Serran, Geris A.  (Ed); O’Brien, Matt D.  (Ed.). ISBN: 1-4338-0942-7

Classic Books

5.After death—what? Spiritistic phenomena and their interpretation, © 1909, by Lombroso, Cesare; Kennedy, William Sloane (Trans.)

6.American problems: From the point of view of a psychologist, © 1910, by Munsterberg, Hugo

7.The analysis of racial descent in animals, © 1906, by Montgomery, Thos. H., Jr.

8.The animal mind: A text-book of comparative psychology, © 1913, by Washburn, Margaret Floy

9.Anthropometry and physical examination: A book for practical use in connection with gymnastic work and physical education, © 1909, by Seaver, Jay W.

10.The approach to the social question: An introduction to the study of social ethics, © 1909, by Peabody, Francis Greenwood

11.Auguste Comte and positivism (5th ed.), © 1907, by Mill, John Stuart

12.The biology, physiology and sociology of reproduction, also sexual hygiene, with special reference to the male (10th ed.), © 1907, by Hall, Winfield S.

13.A brief course in the history of education, © 1907, by Monroe, Paul

14.Charles Darwin: His life told in an autobiographical chapter and in a selected series of his published letters, © 1908, by  Darwin, Charles; Darwin, Francis (Ed.)

15.Clinical psychiatry: A textbook for students and physicians, abstracted and adapted from the 7th German edition of Kraepelin’s Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie (new ed., rev. and augmented), © 1907, by Diefendorf, A. Ross; Kraepelin, Emil

16.Consciousness, © 1909, by Marshall, Henry Rutgers

17.Dynamic sociology or applied social science: As based upon statical sociology and the less complex sciences, Vol. 2, © 1907, by Ward, Lester F.

18.The economy of happiness, © 1906, by MacKaye, James

19.The Edinburgh lectures on mental science, © 1909, by Troward, T.

20.Elements of statistics (3rd ed.), © 1907, by Bowley, Athur L.

21.Enigmas of psychical research, © 1906, by Hyslop, James H.

22.The eternal values, © 1909, by Münsterberg, Hugo

23.Ethics, © 1908, by Dewey, John; Tufts, James H.

24.Experimental psychology and its bearing upon culture, © 1908, by Stratton, George Malcolm

25.Feeling: Psychologically treated, and Prolegomena to psychology, © 1905, by Snider, Denton J.

26.The freedom of authority: Essays in apologetics, © 1905, by Sterrett, J. MacBride

27.Genetic psychology for teachers, © 1903, by Judd, Charles Hubbard

28.The humanizing of the brute, or The essential difference between human and animal soul proved from their specific activities, © 1906, by Muckermann, H.

29.The influence of the mind on the body (4th ed.), © 1906, by Dubois, Paul; Gallatin, L. B. (Trans.)

30.An introduction to social psychology (2nd ed.), © 1909, by McDougall, William

31.An introduction to the history of religion (4th ed.), © 1896, by Jevons, Frank Byron

32.Lectures on human and animal psychology (4th ed.; translated from the 2nd German ed.), © 1907, by Wundt, Wilhelm; Creighton, J. E. (Trans.); Titchener, E. B. (Trans.)

33.The life and letters of George John Romanes (6th impression), © 1902, by Romanes, George John; Romanes, E.

34-35.Life and letters of Herbert Spencer, Vol. 1 and 2, © 1908, by Duncan, David

36.The limits of evolution and other essays: Illustrating the metaphysical theory of personal idealism (2nd ed., rev. and enlarged), © 1905, by Howison, G. H.

37.Logic: Deductive and inductive, © 1905, by Hibben, John Grier

…. For a full list of all 60 classic books that were published to PsycBOOKS in February, please email Jennie Simning at Librarian@capella.edu.

Note: To read any of the these ebooks – go to the Library’s Databases A-Z page.  Scroll down and click PsycBOOKs. Once in the database, type in the book title.

~Jennie

Our Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) database has a new look and new functionality including:

• Improved user-focused navigation and organization
• Enhanced advanced search options
• Multi-page viewer that enables one or two-page viewing
• ReadSpeaker text-to-speech technology in 19 languages
• Book cover images on the search and results screens

GVRL contains reference books such as dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks that can provide you with background information about your specific topic ranging from business through the social sciences.  GVRL is accessible through the Databases A-Z page on the library web site.  To learn more about the new interface, view the tutorials created by Gale.

 

- Kristin

 

PsycBOOKS added the following titles to its coverage list in January 2012. Of the titles added, 3 were APA books and 60 were designated Classic Books.

Classic books are landmark titles in psychology and are selected by APA experts.

APA Books

1.    Caring for veterans with deployment-related stress disorders, © 2011, by Ruzek, Josef I. (Ed.); Schnurr, Paula P. (Ed.); Vasterling, Jennifer J. (Ed.); Friedman, Matthew J. (Ed.). ISBN: 1-4338-0925-7

2.    Moving beyond prejudice reduction: Pathways to positive intergroup relations, © 2011, by Tropp, Linda R. (Ed.); Mallett, Robyn K. (Ed.). ISBN: 1-4338-0928-1

3.    The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action, © 2011, by Jackson, Lynne M. ISBN: 1-4338-0920-6

Classic Books

4.    The Americans, © 1904, by Münsterberg, Hugo; Holt, Edwin B. (Trans.)

5.    Analytic interest psychology and synthetic philosophy, © 1904, by Engle, J[ohn] S[ummerfield]

6.    Aristotle’s history of animals in ten books, © 1902, by Aristotle; Creswell, Richard (Trans.)

7.    An autobiography, Vol. 1, © 1904, by Spencer, Herbert

8.    The boy problem: A study in social psychology (5th ed.), © 1901, by Forbush, William Byron; Hall, G. Stanley (Cont.)

9.    Comparative physiology of the brain and comparative psychology, © 1900, by Loeb, Jacques

10.   Contemporary psychology, © 1903, by Villa, Guido; Manacorda, Harold (Trans.)

11.   Contributions to a psychological theory of music, © 1901, by Meyer, Max; Thilly, Frank (Ed.)

12.   De vi physica et imbecillitate Darwiniana, © 1903, by Bain, Francis William

13.   The descent of man and selection in relation to sex (new ed.), © 1901, by Darwin, Charles

14.   Development and evolution, including psychophysical evolution, evolution by orthoplasy, and the theory of genetic modes, © 1902, by Baldwin, James Mark

15.   The dialogues of Plato, translated into English with analyses and introductions (Vol. 4), © 1901, by Plato; Jowett, B. (Trans.)

16.   Dialogues of Plato: With analyses and introductions, (Vol. 1), © 1901, by Plato; Jowett, B. (Trans.)

17.   The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom (2nd ed., 5th impression), © No Year Specified, by Darwin, Charles

18.   Evolution & ethics, and other essays, © 1901, by Huxley, Thomas H.

19.   The evolution theory (Vol. 2), © 1904, by Weismann, August; Thomson, J. Arthur (Trans.); Thomson, Margaret R. (Trans.)

20.   Experimental psychology: A manual of laboratory practice, Vol. 2: Quantitative experiments, Part 1, Students manual, © 1905, by Titchener, Edward Bradford

21.   Experimental psychology: A manual of laboratory practice, Vol 2: Quantitative experiments, Part 2, Instructor’s manual, © 1905, by Titchener, Edward Bradford

22.   Facts and comments, © 1902, by Spencer, Herbert

23.   Fragments in philosophy and science, © 1903, by Baldwin, James Mark

24.   The ground work of psychology, © 1903, by Stout, G. F.

25.   Herbert Spencer and his critics, © 1900, by Waite, Charles B.

26.   Herbert Spencer: An estimate and review, together with a chapter of personal reminiscences by James, © 1904, by Collier Royce, Josiah

27.   Hume: The relation of the treatise on human nature—Book I to the inquiry concerning human understanding, © 1904, by Elkin, W. B.

28.   Improvement of the understanding, ethics and correspondence of Benedict de Spinoza de Spinoza, © 1901, by Benedict; Elwes, R. H. M. (Trans.)

29.   An introduction to comparative psychology (new ed., rev.), © 1903, by Morgan, C. Lloyd

30.   An introduction to psychology, based on the author’s handbook of psychology, © 1904, by Murray, J. Clark

31.   Intuitive perception, presented by a new philosophy of natural realism in accord with universally accepted truths, © 1903, by Hodge, William H.

32.   Life and letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (Vol. 2), © 1904, by Huxley, Leonard

33.   Life history album: Tables and charts for recording the development of body and mind from childhood upwards, with introductory remarks (2nd ed., rearranged), © 1902, by Galton, Francis

…. For a full list of all 60 classic books that were published to PsycBOOKS in January, please email Jennie Simning at Librarian@capella.edu.

Note: To read any of the these ebooks – go to the Library’s Databases A-Z page.  Scroll down and click PsycBOOKs. Once in the database, type in the book title.

~Jennie

 

As you finish writing your final papers for the quarter, we in the library would like to remind you to cite your sources properly.   Here are some resources that can help.

Many of our library databases allow you to get the APA-formatted citation for an article that you can copy and paste into a reference list.   While the citations from these tools are rarely perfect, they are still a good place to start and may save you time.   You can look at the appropriate database guide if you want to see if the database you’re using has a citing function.

In the Proquest databases – look for a “Cite” link above the article title on the Article Record page.

In the EBSCO databases, click on the title of the article you want from the results page.  This will take you to the article information page.  Look for the “Cite” link in the menu bar on the right side:

If you used RefWorks to store your article citations, then you probably already know that RefWorks allows you to create APA formatted bibliographies.   If you need some reminders about using RefWorks, or if you want to find out more, check out the RefWorks home page.  It’s linked to useful guides, and includes a recorded webinar as well as four video tutorials that show you the basics of creating and using a RefWorks account.

Again, none of the above mentioned citing tools will be correct 100% of the time.  There are often punctuation or capitalization errors with any software-created citations.

Which brings me to one of your most important tools, your APA manual.  Officially entitled Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (6th Ed.), it is your best friend and final word when it comes to verifying that you are using correct APA citation style.   It’s up to you to double check your APA manual to verify that the citations you (or a database) have created are properly formatted.

Finally, if you still can’t figure out how to format a reference citation after using the above tools,  you can contact Smarthinking, a web-based tutorial service, for assistance.  You can write in with a question any time, or get live one-on-one assistance during their hours of service.   Smarthinking is free to you as a Capella learner, so register today!

-Kim

The library has two webinars coming up this week, so now is your chance to spend an hour picking up some skills that could help you with the rest of your program!

“Searching Databases for Articles” Webinar:  Thursday, March 8th, 7:00 PM Central

Get better results for the topics you search in the library databases!  If you ever get too many or too few results or results that don’t seem on-topic, then this is a great webinar for you!  Learn how to become a more effective researcher by signing up for our “Searching Databases” webinar.

If the timing of this webinar doesn’t work out for you, see our Library Guides.  We have guides and tutorials that are available 24/7 and can help you with everything from finding an article for a discussion post, to helping you prepare for your dissertation.

RefWorks Webinar:  Saturdayday, March 10th, 10:00 AM Central

RefWorks is a research management tool that helps you collect, organize, and store citations from library databases and other resources.  If you haven’t been using this handy tool to take control and organize your research process, sign up for a RefWorks webinar today!

The webinar will cover the basics of creating an account, sending articles to RefWorks,  organizing folders, and creating APA formatted bibliographies.  Time will be provided to answer any ReWorks questions you may still have.

If this webinar time doesn’t work out for you, our RefWorks information page  includes helpful guides, video tutorials and a recording of an earlier webinar to help you get started.

If you have any questions about these webinars, or other library resources, please contact the library.

-Kim