Finding Books

Library Catalog

Use the catalog to find books, government documents, DVDs, etc. that are in Kresge Library. Also use the catalog to see if we have access to a particular journal title online or in print.

MelCat

Union catalog of many Michigan libraries; 1st stop to interloan books.

Finding Articles: Databases in Counseling

Eric Via CSA The standard database for resources in education (very broadly defined--so a lot on counseling) including journal articles from research/scholarly and practitioner literature, as well as ERIC documents. ERIC documents include such various sources as books, research reports, government documents, conference papers, bibliographies, curricula and lesson plans and other documents. Covers literature from 1966 through the present, with online direct full-text for ERIC documents from 1992-present. Use "Get It" links to find out if library has the journal articles.

PsycArticlesPsycARTICLES is a database of entirely full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. Most of the 58 APA journals included in PsycARTICLES now go back to volume 1, issue 1. The earliest journal is Psychological Review, which was started in 1894.

PsycInfo PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as counseling, psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Useful to limit to English language. Use "Get It" links to find out if library has the journal articles.

Social Work Abstracts indexes more than 450 social work and human services journals. Use "Get It" links to find out if library has the journal articles.

Mental Measurements Yearbook Corresponds to volume 9 to present of print Mental Measurements Yearbook. Here you'll find descriptions and reviews of current testing instruments.
Some links to full text available.

Citation Searching

Does the library have access to a journal online? Easiest way to find out is to check the "E-Journals A to Z " from the library's "Find Articles" page.

Where do you find lists of databases and other online resources available at OU? The easiest way to find these is to check "Databases by Subject" or "Databases A to Z" from the "Find Articles" page.

When you are using the library's databases, be sure to click on the blue link when the article you want does not have a full text link in the database. will then take you to the article from another source or, if the online articles is not available, you can check the library catalog record for print holdings or, if we do not have it in print, you can request a copy of the article via interlibrary loan.

Keyword Searching

and requires that both concepts will be included

or gets "more"--use between similar terms

* (? in the Library Catalog)is a truncation symbol--gets all words that begin with the letters before the symbol. Teen* gets teens, teenager, teenagers.

" "--quotation marks around 2 or more words requires that the words occur together and in that order. Use them "united states". However, "obesity in children" could be better searched as obesity and children.

( )--use parentheses to group like terms

--Sample searches:

counseling and (hispanics or "mexican americans")

(youth or adolescen* or teen*) and counsel*

Contact Information

Millie Merz

merz@oakland.edu

248-370-2457

Finding Background Information

Print:

• The ACA Encyclopedia of Counseling REF BF 636.54 .A23 2009
• Key Words in Multicultural Interventions
  REF BF 637 .C6 K493 1999
• Counseling Dictionary
  REF BF 637 .C6 G5332 2006
• The professional counselor's desk reference (3d floor) BF 636.6 .P76 2009
• Handbook of Crisis Counseling, Intervention, and Prevention in the Schools
  (3rd floor) LB 1027.55 .C74 2002
• Handbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling & Psychology
  (3rd floor) BF 637 .C6 H3173 2003
  
• Handbook of Family Dispute Resolution
  (3rd floor) HQ 10 .T28 2002

Online:

• Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology
• Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science
• Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
• Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
• Credo Reference (many reference books)

Relevant Websites

• American Counseling Association
• Michigan Counseling Association
• All about Counseling
• The Unabridged Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection
• National Board of Certified Counselors
• ERIC (for updated ERIC documents)
• Michigan E-Library
• Michigan Department of Education
• Oakland Schools
• For other excellent Web resources on counseling consult Kristine Condic's Counseling: Resources for Students, Consumers and Professionals.

Evaluating, Citing, and Keeping Up with Your Sources

• OWL Guide to Using APA Format (Purdue U.)
• APA Style Guide (from the APA)
• Writing Resources for Students
• Ulrich's Periodical Directory - Can help you determine if an article is from a scholarly journal.
• RefWorks - a reference management tool that allows you to create a personal database of references and automatically generate formatted bibliographies for your projects.

General Library Information

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