ProQuest Psychology Journals Database

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Introduction | Accessing | Searching | Search Results | Managing Search Results | Search Tips | Additional Features

Introduction

Provides full-text for articles from over 400 psychology journals and related publications from the U.S., Canada and the U.K., including the American Journal of Psychology and the American Journal of Psychiatry. With complete information from over 400 top psychology and related publications, this database meets the needs of both students and mental-health professionals. All the source publications are available in the ASCII full-text format. Nearly all of them also offer articles in the full-image and Text+Graphics Science & Technology formats. For some publications, full-text coverage dates from 1992; full-image coverage, from 1987; and Text+Graphics, from 1995.

Accessing

This database may be accessed from the Databases page of the Electronic Resources section of the NSU Alvin Sherman Library website. For more on how to access databases visit http://www.nova.edu/library/dils/lessons/electroniclibrary/

Searching

The default search in ProQuest Psychology Journals is the Guided Search mode. To choose one of the other search modes, move your mouse over the Search Methods button and click on Basic, Guided, Advanced, Natural Language, or Publication search. To construct a Guided Search in ProQuest Psychology Journals type your search term(s) in the first Search for box add limits as needed–below the entry boxes click on Search to obtain a list of records Consult the Search Tips for additional information on constructing your search. Guided Search screen in ProQuest Psychology Journals.

Search Results

Search results will vary. If you get: No records matched your search, then check your spelling or the fields you searched in. Too many, then go back and limit your search. Sometimes a search needs to be modified with: additional search words, searching only a specific field, adding date limitations, or type of materials. Too few, then go back and expand your search. Consider synonyms for your search words or concepts. Try to use professional language or terminology. Irrelevant results, then try new search terms. Consider synonyms or related concepts. Identify and search using descriptors. Try a different database. Results lists The Search Results screen displays items that matched your search terms. The Search Results shows citations for items that matched your search availability of full-text–indicated by the small icons to the left of the article titles: indicates a citation/abstract of the article. indicates a full-text article (html format). indicates text + graphics (html format). indicates an article in PDF format. indicates item may be available in another database. Your search results will not indicate if other ProQuest Psychology Journals Database or non-ProQuest Psychology Journals Database contain the full-text of the article. Search results ProQuest Psychology Journals. Records To view a record (article) in the best-available format: Click on the article title. ProQuest Psychology Journals observes the following order to determine "best-available format:" Text+Graphics, Full Text, Page Image, Citation/Abstract. To view a record (article) in a specific format click on the icon corresponding to the format you want The information in the record, especially the title of the item and the abstract, if available, will help you determine if you need the item. For articles available in PDF format, Adobe Acrobat Reader software must be installed on the computer to view the document. Acrobat Reader allows the article to be viewed and printed exactly as it appeared in the original publication. This is free software, but is unsupported by NSU. It can be downloaded at www.adobe.com.

Managing Search Results

Databases typically allow you to manage your search results by marking or tagging records to select only the records that you want from your search results from later printing, emailing and/or saving printing the search results list and/or specific records emailing the search results list and/or specific records to your email address saving the search results list and/or specific records–some databases may allow you to save your file for export into commercial bibliographic citation manager software, such as EndNote or ProCite Not all search management features are available in all databases. Marking The “mark” feature allows you to select records from within your search results. By marking items, you can print or email records at one time. To mark a record in the Search Results list, click in the check box to the left of a title in an Article Display, click in the check box labeled Mark article–top of screen To view your list of marked records move your mouse over the Results button at the top of the screen click on Marked list & durable links You may then email, print or export the items you have selected. Full-text will not be printed or exported for marked items–even if the full-text is available. Full-text can be emailed. Printing To print a record, including full-text in HTML format if available click on the Print Article button–near the top of the Article Display the article will be reformatted and the print dialog box will appear click the OK button click the back button in your browser to return to your search results To print a full-text article in PDF format, if available click on the PDF icon–left of the article title in the Search Results list Adobe Acrobat Reader software will load the article click on the print icon in the Adobe Acrobat Reader software–not the print icon in your Internet browser the Print dialog box will appear click OK click the back button in your browser to return to your search results Emailing To email a record, including full-text (HTML format) if available click on the Email Article button–near the top of the Detailed Record select the email format enter an email address click the Send Email button use your browser’s back arrow to return to your results Use your complete email address and include an optional note about what you are sending in the comment box. Saving To save a record, including full-text (HTML format) if available click on the print icon–top of the record when the print dialog box appears, click on cancel click on the File–in the menu bar of your Internet browser click on Save As enter a filename–extension should be .txt click the pull down arrow for the Save as file type option and select Plain text (.txt) click Save use your browser’s back arrow to return to your results Use a word processing program to open your .txt file. To save a full-text article in PDF format, if available click on the PDF icon–left of the article title in the Search Results list Adobe Acrobat Reader software will load the article click on the save icon in the Adobe Acrobat Reader software–not the print icon in your Internet browser the Save dialog box will appear select where to save file in type a file name click the Save button click the back button in your browser to return to your search results

Search Tips

Use advanced search features to modify a search to obtain more successful search results. You can combine advanced search features to modify and improve your search. Advanced search features often include: phrase or proximity searching field searching date document and/or publication type Boolean operators plurals and truncation One useful tip when searching any electronic database is to leave out articles, prepositions, and very abstract or general terms–they confuse the database's search engine. For example, if the paper is on "The Impact of Mainstreaming Students in Math Classes,” use the most precise terms like mainstreaming and mathematics and skip impact, the, of, and in. Phrase or proximity searching In ProQuest Psychology Journals, there are two ways to search for a phrase if the phrase contains more than two words, put the phrase in double quotes, such as: “speech language pathology” “clinical research trial” if the phrase contains two words, ProQuest Psychology Journals automatically searches the words as a phrase, such as: speech language child development Field searching To limit your search to a specific field in the record click on the pull-down arrow–to the right of the box that says “All Basic Search Fields*” scroll to the field to limit your search to click on the field’s name Date To limit a search to specific years go to the date range section of the screen select the desired years–and months, if needed–using the pull-down arrows Publication type To specify a publication type click on the pull-down arrow in front of the words “Publication type” select All (all publication types), Periodicals, or Newspapers Searches may also be limited to specific article types click on the pull-down arrow in front of the words “Article type” select All (all article types) or a specific article type ProQuest Psychology Journals searches may be limited to peer-reviewed (refereed) publications go to the checkboxes section–below the entry boxes use the Show peer reviewed publications check box to limit your search Boolean operators The Boolean operators, AND, OR, and AND NOT, can be used to modify a search click on the pull-down arrow–below “Search for:” click on the Boolean operator to use: Plurals Use the following symbols in ProQuest Psychology Journals Database to locate plural forms, truncate search terms, or replace characters: * Regular plural forms. school* retrieves both school and schools ? Any number of characters at the end of a word. leader? retrieves leader, leaders, leadership * One character. defen*e retrieves both defense and defence multiple* A specific number of characters. compute* retrieves computer, computed, not compute, computers, computerized, computerization

Additional Features