ONLINE AND OFFLINE RESOURCES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT PSY494P122 (2015-I) DATABASES 2 DATABASES ¢There are thousands of databases. ¢ ¢ ¢They are usually available through: — —Data owners (institutions, publishers) or —Third part companies (suppliers/retailers) or —Third part institutions (libraries) ¢ 3 4 By supplier I mean “retailers” such as EBSCO, ProQuest, etc. By distributor I mean usually the library. 5 By supplier I mean “retailers” such as EBSCO, ProQuest, etc. By distributor I mean usually the library. 6 PUBLISHERS (MOST RENOWNED) 7 8 SUPPLIERS (MOST RENOWNED) 9 10 DATABASES HOW TO SELECT THEM 11 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. — 12 http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServlet?region=9&imprint=000&titleCode=GDOD&cf=p&type =3&id=256122 p p p n n 13 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. ¢ ¢ — 14 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/masaryk/docDetail.action?docID=10018032 DATABASES OFFERED BY SUPPLIERS 15 16 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 515,000 e-books plus subscription management services for 360,000 e-journals and e-journal packages. 17 http://www.ebsco.com/about ACADEMIC SEARCH™ ¢ ¢For academic institutions: comprehensive multidisciplinary content ¢ —Academic Search Elite. —Academic Search Premier. —Academic Search Complete. ¢ — 18 http://ebscohost.com/academic e.g. anthropology, sociology, economics, etc. ACADEMIC SEARCH™ ¢ ¢Academic 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 ¢ — 19 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/academic-search-elite ACADEMIC SEARCH™ ¢ ¢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 20 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/academic-search-premier ACADEMIC SEARCH™ ¢ ¢Academic Search 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 21 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/academic-search-complete ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE 22 http://search.ebscohost.com/ AGELINE® ¢ ¢Focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging. ¢ ¢Premier source for the literature of social gerontology. ¢ ¢ — — ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 23 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/ageline p n n p p p p n n FRANCIS (INIST-CNRS) ¢ ¢Provides over 2.6 million records in humanities and social sciences dating back to 1972. ¢ ¢31% of the content is on psychology. ¢ ¢Source documents include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, and reports. 24 http://www.inist.fr/?Francis-74&lang=en p p p n n PASCAL (INIST-CNRS) ¢More than 20 million records in 7 fields dating back to 1973. It includes fields like: ¢ ¢Cognition: 272 titles and 200,000 references since 1984. ¢Digital Communication and Information: 290 titles 800,000 references since 1984 ¢ ¢Source documents include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, patents, and reports, with special emphasis on European content. ¢ ¢ — — ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 25 http://www.inist.fr/?PASCAL-73&lang=en http://pubpsych.eu Energy, Environmental issues, materials, nanoscience, safety, cognition, digital communication and information PSYCHOLOGY & BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES COLLECTION™ ¢Covers information concerning topics in: —Emotional and behavioral characteristics —Psychiatry & psychology —Mental processes —Anthropology —Observational & experimental methods. ¢ ¢>530 full-text journals. — — ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 26 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psychology-behavioral-sciences-collection n p p p p n n PSYCINFO® (APA) ¢Is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. ¢Abstracts from journals (99% peer-reviewed), book chapters, books, and dissertations. ¢Over 4 million records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s ¢Ninety-nine percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. ¢It’s indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. ¢ — — ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 27 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psycinfo n p p p p n n PSYCARTICLES® (APA) ¢A definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. ¢ ¢More than 180,000 articles from > 100 journals published by the APA and allied organizations. ¢ ¢Coverage spans 1894 to present. ¢ ¢It’s indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. ¢ — — ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 28 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psycarticles n p p p p n n 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. ¢ ¢It’s indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. — 29 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psycextra n p p p p n n PSYCBOOKS® (APA) ¢Approximately 60,000 chapters in PDF from over 4000 books (some peer-reviewed) published by APA and other distinguished publishers. ¢ ¢Contains close to 3,000 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology dating from the 1600s. ¢ ¢It’s indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. 30 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psycbooks http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=browsePB.home 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 ¢ ¢It’s indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. 31 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psyccritiques n p p p p n n 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. — — ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 32 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psyctests p p p n n MENTAL MEASUREMENTS YEARBOOK WITH TESTS IN PRINT ¢Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements (University of Nebraska) ¢ ¢Provides a comprehensive guide to over 3,500 contemporary testing instruments. ¢ ¢All yearbooks from the 1st edition (1938), through the 19th yearbook (2014) raise the total number of full-text reviews available on the product to over 10,000. ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 33 Test Reviews Online: http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp n p p p p n n http://www.ebscohost.com/ACADEMIC/mental-measurements-yearbook-with-tests-in-print 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. 34 Test Reviews Online: http://buros.unl.edu/buros/jsp/search.jsp p p p p n n HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL INSTRUMENTS (HAPI) ¢Produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services (BMDS) ¢ ¢175,000 records, 80 unique instruments. ¢ ¢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. 35 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/health-and-psychosocial-instruments-hapi n p p p p n n 175,000 records, 80 unique instruments 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 (215,000 records, 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 back to 1945) in use in the German-speaking countries. 36 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/psyndex-literature-and-audiovisual-media-with-psyndex-tests http://pubpsych.eu n p p p p n n 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. ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 37 http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/pep-archive n p p p p n n 38 PROQUEST CENTRAL ¢ ¢The largest, multidisciplinary, full-text database available in the market today. ¢ ¢Provides access to 30 of ProQuest's most highly used databases with 21,000 periodicals. ¢ ¢Has a variety of content types across over 160 subjects, making this the broadest single research resource in the world. ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 39 http://www.proquest.com/libraries/academic/databases/ProQuest_Central.html n n PROQUEST PSYCHOLOGY JOURNALS™ ¢ ¢Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 1,000 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. ¢ — — 40 http://www.proquest.com/products-services/pq_psychology_journ.html p p n n PROQUEST CRIMINAL JUSTICE ¢ ¢Formerly ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (CJPI) ¢ ¢Over 450 publications since 1969. ¢ ¢Authoritative information on criminology, addictions, alcoholism, gambling, child abuse. 41 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. ¢ 42 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. ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 43 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. ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 44 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. 45 Open Access: http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/search.html Limited view / Pay-per-view: http://dissexpress.umi.com/dxweb p p n n 46 GALE VIRTUAL REFERENCE ¢ ¢Offers more than 15000 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. ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ 47 http://www.gale.cengage.com/gvrl/ ACADEMIC ONE FILE ¢More than 14,000 titles, including more than 9,000 peer-reviewed 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 48 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 49 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 full-text reviews from InfoTrac OneFile and InfoTrac Expanded Academic, as well as full text via links to library holdings. 50 http://www.gale.cengage.com/BRIOnline 51 WEB OF SCIENCE ¢Information is carefully evaluated and selected. ¢ ¢Offers a true cited reference index, which is still the best tool for discovery. ¢ ¢12,000 of the highest impact journals ¢ ¢Includes the Book Citation Index (more than 50,000 books, and 160,000 conference proceedings) ¢ ¢Visualize the citations with Citation Maps, analyze them with Analyze Tool or integrate them with EndNote® Web. ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 52 http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/multidisciplinary/webofscience/ n p p p p n n 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. ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 53 http://wokinfo.com/products_tools/analytical/jcr/ n p p p p n n 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 54 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. — — 55 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 ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 56 http://thomsonreuters.com/content/science/pdf/globalhealth_fs.pdf http://www.cabdirect.org/advancedsearch.html n p p p p n n 57 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. 58 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. 59 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 60 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. ¢ ¢ 61 http://oaister.worldcat.org/ WORLDCAT 62 http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch DATABASES (EVIDENCE-BASED) 63 SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE ¢ ¢At the most basic level, evidence involves “the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.”1 ¢ ¢ ¢For evidence-informed decision making 64 1 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. EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE 65 Prasad, K. (2013). Fundamentals of evidence-based medicine (2nd ed.). New Delhi: Springer India. EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE 66 Sackett , D. L. , Richardson , W. S. , Rosenberg , W. , & Haynes , R. B. (1997). Evidence-based medicine: How to practice and teach EBM . New York, NY : Churchill Livingstone . p. 2. “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients” SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE 67 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 68 http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/lib/ COCHRANE LIBRARY 69 http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/ CRD DATABASE (DARE) 70 http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/SearchPage.asp CRD DATABASE (PROSPERO) 71 http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/ MCMASTER HEALTH EVIDENCE 72 http://www.healthevidence.org/search.aspx NICE (EBM SEARCH ENGINE) 73 http://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search BEST BETS 74 http://bestbets.org/index.php ¢ CLINICAL TRIALS 75 http://clinicaltrials.gov/ http://www.controlled-trials.com/mrct/ http://public.ukcrn.org.uk/search/ ¢ ¢ EBM JOURNALS 76 * http://informahealthcare.com/page/eo ¢ ¢Evidence-based journals —Mental Health —Preventive Medicine —Expert Opinion Journals * ¢ ¢ DATABASES (TESTS) 77 TESTS AND MEASURES IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES ¢ ¢ ¢This database contains information on about 14,000 measures available in 140 compilation volumes. ¢ ¢ ¢There is a database version in RefShare. ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 78 http://libraries.uta.edu/TMdb p p p n n 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. ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 79 About: http://www.ets.org/test_link/about/ Database: http://1340.sydneyplus.com/ETS_Test_Collection/Portal.aspx p p p p n n 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 ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 80 http://www.proqolid.org/about_proqolid p p p n n 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. ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ — — 81 http://www.knowmo.ca/Capacity/AddictionMeasures.aspx DATABASES (METASEARCH) 82 PUBPSYCH 83 http://www.pubpsych.eu/ ¢Includes: ERIC, ISOC-Psicología, MEDLINE, DANS, NORART, PASCAL, PSYNDEX. MUNI METALIB 84 http://metalib.muni.cz/ OVID UNIVERSAL SEARCH 85 http://resourcecenter.ovid.com/site/pdf/osp3/OvidUS_FS_0410.pdf GALE POWERSEARCH 86 http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/masaryk READINGS FOR THE NEXT CLASS: Saving citations (De Brún & Pearce-Smith, 2014; Chapter 10) 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) 87 ASSIGNMENT: The next class we’ll start our own Mendeley database.