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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
PsycBOOKS added the following titles to its coverage list in September 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. How caregiving affects development: Psychological implications for child, adolescent, and adult caregivers, ©2009, by Shifren, Kim (Ed.)
2. Medical illness and positive life change: Can crisis lead to personal transformation?, ©2009, by Park, Crystal L. (Ed.); Lechner, Suzanne C. (Ed.); Antoni, Michael H. (Ed.); Stanton, Annette L. (Ed.)
3. Spirituality and the therapeutic process: A comprehensive resource from intake to termination, ©2009, by Aten, Jamie D. (Ed.); Leach, Mark M. (Ed.)
Classic Books
4. The anatomy of melancholy, what it is, with all the kinds, causes, symptomes, prognostics, and several cures of it, ©ND (Reprinted 1838), by Democritus, Junior
5. The book of nature (from the last London ed.), ©1837, by Good, John Mason
6. A discourse of natural theology, showing the nature of the evidence and the advantages of the study, ©1835, by Brougham, Henry Lord
7. Elements of physiology, ©1837, by Müller, J.; Baly, William (Trans.)
8. Elements of physiology, Vol. 2, ©1842, by Müller, J.; Baly, William (Trans.)
9. The history of ancient philosophy, in four volumes, Vol 4, ©1846, by Ritter, Heinrich; Morrison, Alexander J. W. (Trans.)
10. Intermarriage: or, The mode in which, and the causes why, beauty, health and intellect, result from certain unions, and deformity, disease and insanity result from others: Demonstrated by delineations of the structure and forms, and descriptions of the functions and capacities, which each parent, in every pair, bestows on children,—in conformity with certain natural laws, and by an account of corresponding effects in the breeding of animals, ©1839, by Walker, Alexander
11. Language: Its connexion with the present condition and future prospects of man by a heteroscian, ©1836, by Hazard, Rowland Gibson
12. Legal and political hermeneutics, or Principles of interpretation and construction in law and politics, with remarks on precedents and authorities (enlarged ed.), ©1839, by Lieber, Francis
13. Man, in his intellectual faculties and adaptations, ©1839, by Mudie, Robert
14. Manual of political ethics, designed chiefly for the use of colleges and students at law, Part 1, ©1838, by Lieber, Francis
15. Medical notes and reflections, ©1839, by Holland, Henry
16. Observations on the influence of religion upon the health and physical welfare of mankind, ©1835, by Brigham, Amariah
17-18. On the power wisdom and goodness of God as manifested in the creation of animals and in their history habits and instincts, Vol 1-2, ©1835, by Kirby, William
19. Outlines of human physiology: Designed for the use of the higher classes in common schools (2nd ed.), ©1838, by Hayward, George
20. Philosophical and practical treatise on the will, forming the third volume of a system of mental philosophy, ©1850, by Upham, Thomas C.
21. Reason. the only oracle of man; or, a compendious System of natural religion, by Col. Ethan Allen; to which is added, Critical remarks on the truth and harmony of the four gospels, with observations on the instruction given by Jesus Christ, and the doctrines of Christianity, by a Free Thinker, ©1836, by Allen, Ethan; A free thinker
22. Treatise on language: or, The relation which words bear to things, in four parts, ©1836, by Johnson, A. B.
23. Twelve lectures on the natural history of man, and the rise and progress of philosophy, ©1839, by Kinmont, Alexander
Note: To read any of the these ebooks – go to the Articles, Books, and More page. Scroll down to PsycBOOKs and type in the title.
~Jennie
Credo Reference recently added a number of new titles to its collection. Many of these new titles are a boon for those of you in Public Safety specializations, as they cover issues such as policing, prisons, youth justice and intelligence.
Here’s a list of Credo’s latest additions:
Enjoy!
-Kim
If you were on the ball and picked up the new APA 6th edition manual the moment you could, you’ll need to make some updates to it.
The first printing of the 6th edition has several examples with wrong information. If you like to model your papers on the sample paper in the manual, you’ll have to be especially careful. Many of the mistakes are in that sample paper.
To see a list of all the mistakes, see the Corrections to the First Printing on the APA’s website.
If you buy the second printing, all should be corrected.
- Erin
If you have a specific title in mind, you can always check Journal and Book Locator and search for that title. But did you know that you can also run a search to find all the journals in the library that have certain keywords in their titles? For instance, if you want to see if we have journals about sports psychology, you can run the following search:
Journal and Book Locator search
(sport* will search for any word that starts with the word sport: sport, sports, sporting, etc.)
You will get the following four results. Note that two of them are not located in databases that you can find on the Articles, Books and More page:
Journal and Book Locator Results
This brings me to another method you can use to find articles from our stand alone journals: Search databases with the Full Text box unchecked. Most databases actually index more journals than they include full text. By searching with the full text feature off, you will get additional results. In fact, if you’re a doctoral learner working on your dissertation, we recommend that you always search the databases with the full text limiter turned off to make sure that you are conducting a thorough search of the literature.
When you run a search without limiting to full text, you will then naturally get some results that will not have a full text link. Instead, some of the results will say Check Article Linker or Linked Full Text (Ebsco databases) or Link to full text (ProQuest). Simply click on the link to see if the article is available in either another database or from one of our stand alone journals.
To continue with our sports psychology theme, you would pick an appropriate database for your topic, in this case PsycINFO, and then run a search such as the one below, making sure to uncheck the full text limiter:
PsyINFO database search
Now, even though PsycINFO doesn’t include the full text for the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, we can pull up results for it (and other stand alone journals) because PsycINFO does index it. Simply click on the link to get to the full text:
PsycINFO search results
As always, if you have questions about article searching, Ask a Librarian!
-Kim
Today has been named International Literacy Day by UNESCO. As lifelong learners, you already know that literacy is central to meeting your goals. And what is literacy without Information Literacy?
Librarians use the term Information Literacy to refer to the basket of skills that allow you to find, evaluate, use, and cite information. Reading alone isn’t enough to be a savvy user of information.
So why not celebrate your literacy by spending some time with a good read? Here are some options for those who want to take a break from the academic fare, and perhaps spread literacy to others:
- Erin
Erika and I conducted the first Capella University Library RefWorks online seminar today, and we’ve scheduled some upcoming sessions that you can register at the RefWorks information page (linked from the Library Homepage). Just click on the Sign up for a live RefWorks online seminar! link.
At the session we cover the following:
In the meantime, check out these recommended RefWorks guides:
Questions? Ask a Librarian!
-Sommer
Week Four is a great time to start planning those big end-of-the-quarter projects! With work and multiple classes, how can you possibly reserve enough time to write a good 20 page paper?
Well, the Capella Library’s Assignment Calculator helps you figure out exactly how much time to reserve for each step of the research process.
Here’s how to use it:
1. Go to Assignment Calculator on the Library’s Guides and Tutorials page.
2. Type in your assignment’s due date.
3. Write down the individual steps in your planner.
4. Use the linked resources as needed to help you complete each step.
– Erika
As the quarter winds down I thought I would offer up two classics from the archives:
This should help you put the final touches on papers:
I hope everybody has a stress-free and productive Finals Week!
And if not, remember you can always…
– Erika
Many times when working on a paper or some other project your instructor asks you to use only primary resources.
What do they mean?
Primary resources are published research studies. They include the following sections: a research question, brief literature review, description of the study’s methodology, a discussion of results and any conclusions. If an article does not have these elements in some way, shape, or form it is probably either a secondary or tertiary resource.
How do you tell the difference?
Secondary resources evaluate either one or perhaps a group of primary resources. They do not conduct a research study but comment on studies that others have done. They are often called a synthesis or an analysis or literature review of a particular subject. They can be are great resources for finding primary resources on a subject.
Tertiary resources provide background or overview information on a topic. They are resources such as subject specific encyclopedias, handbooks or dictionaries. Do these resources sound to ” non-academic” for your purposes? Well don’t discount them so quickly. Many times they will remind you of aspects of your topic you may have forgotten. Also they can give you different ideas for talking about and describing your topic that may be helpful when you start searching the library databases.
Not sure what you have in your hands? Feel free to Ask-a- Librarian
Robin
