ONLINE AND OFFLINE RESOURCES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT PSY494P122 (2014-I) March5th2014 DATABASESDATABASES 2 DATABASES  There are thousands of databases.  They are usually available through:  Data owners (institutions, publishers) or  Third part companies (suppliers) or  Third part institutions (libraries) 3 4 5 DATABASESDATABASES HHOWOW TOTO SSELECTELECT TTHEMHEM 6 GALE DIRECTORY  Formed from the merger of 3 titles:  Computer-Readable Databases  Directory of Online Databases, and  Directory of Portable Databases  Provides extensive coverage of more than 15,000 databases in all formats.  Volume 1: Is devoted to online databases  Volume 2: CD-ROM, DVD, diskette, magnetic tape, handheld, and batch access. 7 http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=GDOD&cf=p&type=3&id=256122 SOCIAL SCIENCE REFERENCE SOURCES  Provides entries for roughly 1,600 reference sources in the social sciences, including:  anthropology, business, economics, education, geography, history, law, political science, psychology, and sociology.  This 2nd edition gives special attention to electronic resources, including more than 200 web sites. 8 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/masaryk/docDetail.action?docID=10018032 PUBLISHERSPUBLISHERS (MOST IMPORTANT)(MOST IMPORTANT) 9 10 DATABASESDATABASES (MAJOR SUPPLIERS)(MAJOR SUPPLIERS) 11 12 13 EBSCO: ABOUT  EBSCO Information Services provides a complete and optimized research solution comprised of research databases, e-books and e-journals—all combined.  EBSCO offers more than 375 full-text and secondary research databases and over 515,000515,000 ee--booksbooks plus subscription management services for 360,000360,000 ee--journalsjournals and e-journal packages. 14 http://www.ebsco.com/about ACADEMIC SEARCH™  For academic institutions: comprehensive multidisciplinary content  Academic Search Elite.  Academic Search Premier.  Academic Search Complete. 15 http://ebscohost.com/academic ACADEMIC SEARCH™  AcademicAcademic Search Elite:Search Elite:  Over 13,600 Indexed and Abstracted Journals  More than 2,300 Full-Text Journals  Over 12,000 Peer-Reviewed, Abstracted and Indexed Journals  More than 1,800 Peer-Reviewed, Full-Text Journals 16 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/academic-search-elite ACADEMIC SEARCH™  Academic Search Premier:Academic Search Premier:  More than 13,600 indexed and abstracted journals  Full text for over 4,700 journals  Over 12,000 peer-reviewed, indexed and abstracted journals  More than 4,000 peer-reviewed, full-text journals 17 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/academic-search-premier ACADEMIC SEARCH™  Academic SearchAcademic Search Complete:Complete:  Over 13,690 indexed and abstracted journals  Nearly 9,100 full-text journals  Full text for more than 7,900 peer-reviewed journals  PDF content dating back as far as 1887  Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,450 journals  Updated daily 18 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/academic-search-complete ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE 19 http://search.ebscohost.com/ AGELINE®  Focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging.  Premier source for the literature of social gerontology. 20 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/ageline FRANCIS (INIST-CNRS)  Produced by Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS)  Provides over 2.6 million records in humanities and social sciences dating back to 1972.  Source documents include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and reports. 21 http://www.inist.fr/?Francis-74 PASCAL (INIST-CNRS)  Produced by Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS).  More than 20 million records in 7 fields dating back to 1973.  Source documents include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, patents, and reports, with special emphasis on European contentEuropean content. 22 http://www.inist.fr/?PASCAL-73 PPSYCHOLOGYSYCHOLOGY && BBEHAVIORALEHAVIORAL SSCIENCESCIENCES CCOLLECTIONOLLECTION™™  Covers information concerning topicstopics in:  Emotional and behavioral characteristics  Psychiatry & psychology  Mental processes  Anthropology  Observational & experimental methods.  400 fullfull--texttext journals. 23 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psychology-behavioral-sciences-collection PSYCINFO® (APA)  AbstractsAbstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations.  Is the largest resourcethe largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.  Over 3.5 million citations3.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s  Ninety-nine percent of the covered material is peerpeer-- reviewedreviewed.  Is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index TermsThesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®®.. 24 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psycinfo PSYCARTICLES® (APA)  A definitive source of full textfull text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology.  More than 178,000 articles178,000 articles from > 100 journals> 100 journals published by the APA and allied organizations.  Coverage spans 1894 to present1894 to present.  Is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index TermsThesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®®.. 25 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psycarticles PSYCEXTRA® (APA)  Full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO® database with extensive coverage of gray literature.  Technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more.  Contains > 300,000 records that are not indexed in any other APA database.  Is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. 26 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psycextra PSYCBOOKS® (APA)  Approximately 55,000 chapters in PDF from over 3,500 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers.  Contains close to 2,600 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s.  Is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. 27 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psycbooks PSYCCRITIQUES® (APA)  Full-text book reviews featuring current scholarly and professional books in psychology.  Also contains reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books.  Approximately 41,000 reviews dating back to 1956  Is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. 28 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psyccritiques PSYCTESTS® (APA)  Provides access to thousands of actual test instruments, most of which are available for immediate download and use.  Detailed test record including: a summary, background information, development history, purpose, reliability and validity data (when available), test format and the citation for the peer-reviewed source document.  Updated monthly. Coverage spans more than a century. 29 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psyctests MENTAL MEASUREMENTS YEARBOOK WITH TESTS IN PRINT  Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements (University of Nebraska)  Provides a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments.  All yearbooks from the 1st edition (1938), through the 18th yearbook (2010) raise the total number of full-text reviews available on the product to over 7,000. 30 Test Reviews Online: http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp MENTAL MEASUREMENTS YEARBOOK ™ WITH TESTS IN PRINT (CONTINUED)  Comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language.  Vital information: test purpose, test publisher, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test. 31 Test Reviews Online: http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL INSTRUMENTS (HAPI)  Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services (BMDS)  Instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included.  Provides information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques, and more. 32 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/health-and-psychosocial-instruments-hapi PSYNDEX: LITERATURE AND AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA WITH PSYNDEX TESTS  The most comprehensive abstract database of psychological literature, audiovisual media, intervention programs, and tests from the German-speaking countries (30% translated in english)  Records of psychological publications from authors in the German-speaking countries, audiovisual media, and descriptions of intervention programs  Extensive descriptions of tests (5800 records) in use in the German-speaking countries. 33 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psyndex-literature-and-audiovisual-media-with-psyndex-tests PEP ARCHIVE  Produced by Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing, Inc. (PEP).  The most authoritative source from the field of psychoanalysis.  Offers the full text for 42 principal psychoanalytic journals and 58 classic psychoanalytic books dating as far back as 1871.  Encompass more than 1,360 volumes and a total of 613,000 printed pages, nearly 71,000 articles, book chapters, book reviews, letters and commentaries, and more than 8,700 figures and illustrations. 34 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/pep-archive 35 PROQUEST CENTRAL  The largest, multidisciplinary, full-text database available in the market today.  Provides access to 28 of ProQuest's most highly used databases  Has a variety of content types across over 160 subjects, making this the broadest single research resource in the world. 36 http://www.proquest.com/libraries/academic/databases/ProQuest_Central.html PROQUEST PSYCHOLOGY JOURNALS™  Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 1,080 titles, with over 690 titles available in full text.  Coverage: From 1971 to present.  Additionally, includes 4,000 full text dissertations spanning 2000 through 2006. 37 http://www.proquest.com/en-US/catalogs/databases/detail/pq_psychology_journ.shtml PROQUEST CRIMINAL JUSTICE  Formerly ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (CJPI)  Over 450 publications since 1969.  Authoritative information on criminology, addictions, alcoholism, gambling, child abuse. 38 http://www.proquest.com/products-services/pq_criminal_justice.html PROQUEST EDUCATION JOURNALS  Covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.  Over 1020 titles (640 full text) since 1991. 39 http://www.proquest.com/products-services/pq_ed_journals.html PROQUEST HEALTH AND MEDICAL COMPLETE™  Combines the clinical research titles available in ProQuest Medical Library™ with hundreds of additional consumer and health administration titles.  Provides in-depth coverage from over 1,950 publications since 1986 with over 1,660 available in full text and of these, over 910 include MEDLINE® indexing. 40 http://www.proquest.com/products-services/pq_health_med_comp.html PROQUEST NURSING & ALLIED HEALTH SOURCE  Provides users with reliable healthcare information since 1986 covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more.  Provides abstracting and indexing for more than 1,070 titles, with over 890 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,300 full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields. 41 http://www.proquest.com/products-services/pq_nursingahs_shtml.html PROQUEST DISSERTATIONS & THESES  With more than 3 million entries (since 1743), is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world.  Of the millions of graduate works listed, we offer over 1.5 million in full text format.  Right now, Google, Google Scholar and Google Books are indexing dissertations and theses published since 2007. 42 http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb 43 GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE  Offers more than 13000 full-text eBooks from Gale and other publishing partners.  100 Publishers including: SAGE, ABC-CLIO, Elsevier, Scribner, Macmillan, Greenwood, IGI Global, John Wiley & Sons, Kogan, Salem Press, etc. 44 http://www.gale.cengage.com/gvrl/ ACADEMIC ONE FILE  More than 14,000 titles, including more than 9,000 peerreviewed journals and more than 6,000 in full text  Full text of The New York Times from 1985 to present  Links with JSTOR for archival access to periodicals  Thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and CBC  Links to medical videos 45 http://www.gale.cengage.com/PeriodicalSolutions/academicOnefile.htm PSYCHOLOGY COLLECTION  Offers 300 full-text periodicals.  It also includes eBooks on psychology such as:  Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology  Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society  Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders  Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behavior 46 http://solutions.cengage.com/Gale/Catalog/Fact-Sheets/it_psych.pdf BOOK REVIEW INDEX ONLINE  The index includes more than 5 million reviews from 1965.  The plus version also includes more than 634,000 fulltext reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic, as well as full text via links to library holdings. 47 http://www.gale.cengage.com/BRIOnline 48 WEB OF SCIENCE  Information is carefully evaluated and selected.  Offers a true cited reference index, which is still the best tool for discovery.  Includes the Book Citation Index (more than 50,000 books, and conference proceedings)  Visualize the citations with Citation Maps, analyze them with Analyze Tool or integrate them with EndNote® Web. 49 http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/webofscience/ JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS (JCR)®  Offers a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world's leading journals, with quantifiable, statistical information based on citation data.  Measures research influence and impact at the journal and category levels, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. 50 http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/analytical/jcr/ CURRENT CONTENTS CONNECT  Provides access to:  Complete tables of contents and abstracts from the most recently published issues of leading scholarly journals.  More than 7,000 relevant, evaluated websites.  Full, bibliographic information for selected electronic journals is also available pre-publication 51 http://wokinfo.com/training_support/training/current-contents-connect/ DATA CITATION INDEX  Provides digital research that is discoverable, citable and linked to primary research literature.  Coverage of nearly 2 million records from quality repositories from around the world. 52 http://wokinfo.com/media/pdf/dci_fs_en.pdf GLOBAL HEALTH FROM CABI  The definitive international public health database: captures key literature not covered by other databases.  Coverage of over 5,000 journals across the biological and medical sciences, from 158 countries in over 50 languages.  Includes journals, books, reports, conferences, patents, theses, and more.  Uses CAB Thesaurus and CABICODES 53 http://thomsonreuters.com/content/science/pdf/globalhealth_fs.pdf http://www.cabdirect.org/advancedsearch.html 54 WORLDCAT  WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services.  Lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. 55 http://www.worldcat.org/whatis/default.jsp http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch WORLDCAT: EBOOKS  Includes the OCLC catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide.  All online electronic books cataloged by OCLC member libraries, including all subjects.  Over 1.9 million books records in the database. 56 http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch WORLDCAT: DISSERTATIONS & THESES  Fast and convenient access to the dissertations and theses available in OCLC member libraries.  Many of these are available electronically, at no charge, directly from the publishing institution.  Over 8 million records in the database 57 http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch WORLDCAT: OAISTER  OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records from open access collections worldwide.  OAIster includes more than 25 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors. 58 http://oaister.worldcat.org/ WORLDCAT 59 http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch DATABASESDATABASES (EVIDENCE(EVIDENCE--BASED)BASED) 60 SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE  Trust your instincts: If the information does not feel right, move on¹  At the most basic level, evidence involves “the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.”2 61 ¹ Norcross, J. C., Hogan, T. P., & Koocher, & G. P. (Eds.). (2008). Clinician’s guide to evidence-based practices: Mental health and the addictions. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2 Brownson, R. C., Baker, E. A., Leet, T. L., Gillespie, K. N., & True, W. R. (2011). Evidence-based public health. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE 62 Brownson, R. C., Baker, E. A., Leet, T. L., Gillespie, K. N., & True, W. R. (2011). Evidence-based public health. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. CAMPBELL LIBRARY 63 http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/lib/ COCHRANE LIBRARY 64 http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/ CRD DATABASE (DARE) 65 http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/SearchPage.asp BEST BETS 66 http://bestbets.org/index.php OTHER SOURCES 67 * http://informahealthcare.com/page/eo ** http://clinicaltrials.gov/  Evidence-based journals  Mental Health  Preventive Medicine  Expert Opinion Journals *  Clinical Trials ** DATABASESDATABASES (TESTS)(TESTS) 68 TESTS AND MEASURES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES  This database contains information on about 14,000 measures available in 138 compilation volumes.  There is a database version in RefShare. 69 Home Page: http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/testmeas.htm Database: http://libraries.uta.edu/helen/test&meas/testmainframe.htm EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE TEST COLLECTION  The ETS Test Collection is a database of more than 25,000 tests and other measurement devices.  Contains information about tests from the early 1900s to the present, and is considered the largest compilation of such materials in the world.  Uses ERIC descriptors. 70 About: http://www.ets.org/test_link/about/ Database: http://1340.sydneyplus.com/ETS_Test_Collection/Portal.aspx PROQOLID  Provides an overview of existing Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) instruments  Provides relevant and updated information on PRO instruments  Facilitates access to the instruments and their developers  Facilitates the choice of an appropriate PRO instrument 71 http://www.proqolid.org/about_proqolid KNOW MO  Prepared as part of a Systematic Review of Measures for the Measuring Addictions and Mental Health Problems in Alberta study.  Provides an index of diagnostic measures for addiction and mental health disorders.  Includes the major contributing literature and associated material summarizing the findings and uses of the measures. 72 http://www.knowmo.ca/Capacity/AddictionMeasures.aspx DATABASESDATABASES (METASEARCH)(METASEARCH) 73 PUBPSYCH 74 http://www.pubpsych.eu/  Includes: ERIC, ISOC-Psicología, MEDLINE, DANS, NORART, PASCAL, PSYNDEX. MUNI METALIB 75 http://metalib.muni.cz/ OVID UNIVERSAL SEARCH 76 http://resourcecenter.ovid.com/site/pdf/osp3/OvidUS_FS_0410.pdf GALE POWERSEARCH 77 http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/masaryk READINGS FOR THE NEXT CLASS: APA Citation Style (American Psychological Association, 2010) Complementary Material: • APA style guide to electronic references (APA, 2012) • Citing Periodicals, Books, Other (Perrin, 2012) • Sample paper (APA Style) (Schwartz, 2013) 78 ASSIGNMENT: The next class we’ll start our own Mendeley database.