Library Use: Handbook for Psychology - Softcover

Reed, Jeffrey G.; Baxter, Pam M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557989923 ISBN 13: 9781557989925

Publisher: American Psychological Association, 2003

Synopsis

Guiding readers through a wide array of resources for research, this volume presents up-to-date methods that reflect significant changes in information publishing and distribution since the early 1990s. In the third edtion of this text, instructors and studetns should benefit from new and expanded coverage and guidance in electronic access to library catalogues, periodical indexes and abstracts and the use of the Internet and World Wide Web in research. The book's core topics include defining and limiting topics, locating books within the library system, identifying bibliographic resources, finding journal articles through author/subject/keyword searching, locating government documents and citation searching. The book focuses on teaching students to maximize all research tools available to them and also provides examples of mini-searches to illustrate the use of each major resource.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557989923
• ISBN 13: 9781557989925
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 208