Monday, March 27, 2006

Annual Review of Psychologyand Clinical Psychology - Full Text from Anywhere


You can now access full text from the Annual Review of Psychology site from on or off campus. Full text coverage for Annual Review of Psychology ranges from February 1996 to the present.

Annual Review brings together literature reviews on a variety of interesting field-specific topics. You may find inspiration or support for your own research.

From the Annual Review site you can:
  • Browse individual issues.
  • Search for full text articles on your topic.
  • Print out interesting articles.
  • Search for citations and abstracts of Annual Review sources in Biomedical, Physical and Social Sciences.

The link to Annual Review of Psychology and Annual Review of Clinical Psychology can be found on the Access Online Databases page.

Please note: Newer versions of browsers are recommended for best results.

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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Search Alerts in ProQuest

Setting up a search alert allows you to receive email updates on your search topic. And in ProQuest it's very easy to do.
Go to ProQuest, input your search terms and click on the Search button. Just above the results list you will see a Set Up Alert link. Click on the link to set up your Search Alert. You can choose to have updates sent to your email account daily, weekly, monthly, or every three months. You can also set up when you want the alerts to stop being sent.
After you set up the search alert, you will be periodically sent email of new citations which match your search. If you would like to do the same in CSA, please see the November 2005 posting for details and instructions.

Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Great Features in ebrary

ebrary is a great place to search for full text book content of over 20,000 books. You can also sign up for a free account that allows you to save books to an online bookshelf, highlight sections, and add notes.
All you need to do is go to ebrary on the Access Online Databases page. Once you are on the ebrary main page, click on the Bookshelf tab at the left and click on the Do you need to create a new bookshelf? link. Fill in the form and you are all set.
To add books to your bookshelf, add notes, or highlight sections, look for the InfoTools menu option above the book text.