Locating Books


The on line catalog provide books, journal titles NOT ARTICLES, government documents (print & electronic), e-books,reserve items, music, and movies owned by the library. You may limit a search by keyword, author, subject, language, type of material etc. This may take a few seconds to load.

Lets use keywords, author, or Subject Heading feature.

• First, search the catalog using keywords to locate a broad range of material and look for resources for your topics, for example, Mental Illness
  
  

• Secondly, search by author to locate material written by an expert in psychology, for example, Saks, Elyn R., writes about multiple personalities

• Thirdly, search Subject Headings feature ONLY if you know the Library of Congress Subject Headings,for example:
  

Subject Headings

Body Image Cognition and Emotion Depression, Mental Perception Personality disorders Psychology Schizophrenia Social Psychology Stress (Psychology)

The library subscribes to numerous databases that are ONLY available to Ramapo students. Databases are not the internet and are the best resources to get journal
articles. See Databases and the Internet for differences.You can use them 24/7 both on and off campus. Off campus use requires your Ramapo email and password.


Suggested Databases Content

PsycInfo	Contains more than two million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, as well as related topics as sociology, anthropology
PsycArticles	A great source to use for locating full-text peer reviewed scholarly articles published by the APA and other allied organizations. Covers general and specialized psychology, basic, applied, clinical and theoritical research
Psychology Journals	Encompasses a wide-range of topics from psychology, clinical, social psychology, social welfare, criminology and more
Social Science Journals	A full-text database that provides information on hundreds of topics such as family studies, addiction and urban studies and more.
Academic Search Premier	A multidisplinary database that contains many full-text articles. May also limit to scholarly (peer reviewed) journals.

• Use the "Thesaurus" and "Subject Terms" tab in a database to find the best search terms to use.
• Refine your search by using different terms
• Always switch to the Advance Search page in a database. This will give you more control over your results.
• Always use quotes around a phrase. The system searches the phrase as one word. Example: "major depression"
• Use Boolean Operators-AND, OR, NOT when running a search to help narrow and broaden a search.
• AND narrows your search.Example: major depression AND Treatment
• OR broadens your search. Example: major depression OR bipolar disorder
• NOT eliminates search results. Example: major depression NOT treatment
• Always check your Spelling if the database results are Zero.
• "Check Availability" link to see if articles are full-text
• Use Journal Finder: to find journal, magazine and newspaper full-texts articles online, in print or available on microfilm.
• Get a book or an article through Interlibrary Loan if the Potter library does not own it.
• Check out Ulrich's International Periodical Directory to see if a journal is Scholarly/Peer Reviewed/Refereed. Articles in these journals have been reviewed by a selected panel of experts in the discipline covered by the journal.

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Locating Web Sources

• Use the following Psychology links found under Subject Resource to locate supplemental information on mental disorders.

• Current Topics in Psychology:- Assembled by a practicing psychologist, this collection of articles, weblinks and research tools is organized by topics: Addiction, Attention Deficient, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical/Abnormal Psychology, Emotional Intellegience, Famil Relations etc.
• Mental Health Net - Quick information on disorders, treatment, treatment facilities and more.

Other WebSite and Search Engine

• National Institute of Mental Health - find national leadership information dedicated to understanding, trating, and preventing mental illness through basic research on the brain, and through clinical, epdemiological, research and more.
• Ixquick MetaSearch - you can search many popular search engines at one and in ten or more languages.