Off The Shelf

PsycBOOKS added the following titles to its coverage list in October 2009. Of the titles added, 3 were APA books and 20 were designated classic books. Classic books are landmark titles in psychology and are selected by APA experts.

APA Books

1.   Addictive behaviors: New readings on etiology, prevention, and treatment, ©2009, by Marlatt, G. Alan (Ed.); Witkiewitz, Katie (Ed.)

2.   Disgust and its disorders: Theory, assessment, and treatment implications, ©2009, by Olatunji, Bunmi O.; McKay, Dean

3.   A lifetime of intelligence: Follow-up studies of the Scottish mental surveys of 1932 and 1947, ©2009, by Deary, Ian J.; Whalley, Lawrence J.; Starr, John M.

Classic Books

4.   Biographia literaria, or Biographical sketches of my life and opinions, ©1847, by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; Coleridge, Henry Nelson (Ed.)

5.   Christian non-resistance, in all its important bearings, illustrated and defended, ©1846, by Ballou, Adin

6.   An examination of President Edwards’ inquiry into the freedom of the will, ©1845, by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

7.   Government of the thoughts, for young men (from the 2nd London ed., rev. by the Committee of Publication), ©1844, by Committee of Publication, Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, Boston, MA, US

8.   Hereditary descent: Its laws and facts, illustrated and applied to the improvement of mankind; with hints to woman, including directions for forming matrimonial alliances so as to produce, in offspring, whatever physical, mental, or moral qualities may be desired, together with preventives of hereditary tendencies, ©1843, by Fowler, O. S.

9.   A history of the earth and animated nature, Vol 1 (new edition with corrections and alterations), ©1844, by Goldsmith, Oliver

10.   Lectures on mental philosophy and theology, ©1846, by Richards, James

11.   Life of faith: In three parts, embracing some of the scriptural principles or doctrines of faith, the power or effects of faith in the regulation of man’s inward nature, and the relation of faith to the divine guidance, ©1854, by Upham, Thomas C.

12.   Locke’s essays: An essay concerning human understanding, and A treatise on the conduct of the understanding (Complete in 1 volume with the author’s last additions and corrections), © No Year Specified (Reprinted 1844), by Locke, John      

13.   On feigned and factitious diseases, chiefly of soldiers and seamen, on the means used to simulate or produce them, and on the best modes of discovering impostors: Being the prize essay in the class of military surgery in the University of Edinburgh, session 1835-6, with additions, ©1843, by Gavin, Hector

14.   The philosophy of history, in a course of lectures, delivered at Vienna (2nd ed., rev.), © 1846, by von Schlegel, Frederick; Robertson, James Baron(Trans)

15.   The philosophy of human life: Being an investigation of the great elements of life: The power that acts—the will that directs the action—and the accountability or sanctions that influence the formation of volitions, together with reflections adapted to the physical, political, popular, moral and religious natures of man, ©1939, by Dean, Amos

16.   Plato against the atheists; or, The tenth book of the dialogue on laws, accompanied with critical notes, and followed by extended dissertations on some of the main points of the Platonic philosophy and theology, especially as compared with the holy scriptures, ©1845, by Plato; Lewis, Tayler

17.   The principles of medical psychology, being the outlines of a course of lectures, ©1847, by von Feuchtersleben, Ernst; Lloyd, H. Evans (Trans.); Babington, B. G. (Trans.)

18.   The principles of physiology applied to the preservation of health, and to the improvement of mental and physical education, ©1844, by Combe, Andrew

19.  Principles of the interior or hidden life, designed particularly for the consideration of those who are seeking assurance of faith and perfect love (8th ed.), ©1843, by Upham, Thomas C.

20.   Self education: or, The philosophy of mental improvement, © 1847, by Hosmer, William

21.   A system of logic, ratiocinative and inductive, being a connected view of the principles of evidence and the methods of scientific investigation, ©1847, by Mill, John Stuart

22.   Theory of morals: An inquiry concerning the law of moral distinctions and the variations and contradictions of ethical codes, ©1844, by Hildreth, Richard

23.   Unity of purpose, or Rational analysis: Being a treatise designed to disclose physical truths and to detect and expose popular errors, ©1846, by Young, Augustus

Note: To read any of the these ebooks – go to the Articles, Books, and More page.  Scroll down and click PsycBOOKs.  Once  in the database, type in the title.

~Jennie

The Business Source Complete database now includes 55 videos from the Harvard Business School’s Faculty Seminar Series. These videos cover a variety of business topics, and are about an hour long. You can either watch them online or read a PDF copy of the transcript.

If you’d like to see the videos, you can simply search the database for Harvard FSS in the title:

- Erin

Learners have been inquiring about RefMobile, a newer RefWorks mobile version that allows you to access your RefWorks account with your mobile device.  I decided I’d give it a try and see what all the buzz was about with my iPod Touch.

I found this guide very helpful when I first tried RefMobile and started learning its features: Working with RefMobile.  From that guide it outlines the features of RefMobile and links to guides showing you how each feature works:

• Searching within your RefWorks account
• Viewing ALL references and file attachments (if the attachment type is supported by your mobile device)
• Viewing references by folder
• Adding or removing references to/from a folder
• Creating new folders
• Entering new references via SmartAdd — which locates references on the web when you enter an ISBN, DOI, PubMed ID (PMID), first author and pub year, or partial title
• Adding comments or text to the Notes field of your references

So if your mobile device can access the Internet, then you can utilize RefMobile.  Just point your web browser to www.refworks.com/mobile and have a go!

-Sommer

Last week I blogged about a new guide for CQ Researcher recently available.  This week I wanted to announce the Credo Reference User Guide is also now available.  To access the guide just go to the to the Library Homepage and following this path:

1. Click Articles, Books and More (your one-stop-shop for all of the Capella subscribed databases)
2. Scroll down the alphabetical list of databases until you see Credo Reference.  Underneath the database link is the link to the User Guide.  Click to open!

Earlier this year Robin blogged about how Credo Reference (along with Gale Virtual Reference Library) are helpful in gathering background information.  Credo includes dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographies, quotations, and bilingual dictionaries.  Check out her blog post for more information!

-Sommer

One of the most annoying parts of research is finding a reference to a great article, and then not having instant access online. Whether you’re a procrastinator waiting until the day before your paper is due, or just an impatient researcher who wants to read everything right away, no one likes to discover that what they want won’t be available right now.

Like many learners, I didn’t like to wait for interlibrary loan either. My solution while working on my degree was to spend a Saturday morning driving to various university libraries with a notepad, pen, and a sack of quarters for the copier.

Not everyone is willing to take my decidedly old-fashioned approach to bypassing interlibrary loan. These days there are some web-based alternatives forming.

DeepDyve is a scholarly article rental service. For 99 cents you can read an article online for 24 hours. No printing. No saving. Their collection is heavily weighted toward scientific journals, which can be extremely expensive. New car expensive, not just used car expensive.

Of course, many journal publishers are happy to sell you an article permanently. But at $25 each, that can be a very expensive way to do research. For the focused researcher, a rental for a day may be just what’s needed.

Some researchers aren’t content to pay any money for scholarly articles, and instead have resorted to the same type of file sharing that music lovers have used. Just as sharing music with strangers has run afoul of copyright law, swapping journal articles runs the same risks. A research article in the Internet Journal of Medical Informatics investigated the breadth of file sharing on one internet site. They estimated $700,000 worth of losses to journal publishers in the 6 month period of their study.

We’re still in the early days of scholarly information online. There are plenty of business models (legal and not) waiting to be tried. Who knows what the landscape will look like in another 10 years. Perhaps the journal subscription will disappear. Or perhaps libraries will simply be portals for content, rather the warehouses of information. In any case, the options for accessing scholarly articles are increasing. Just try to keep your discussion post from turning into a court case!

- Erin