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If you have any difficulty locating what you need, you can contact a reference librarian by telephone at 885-1772, via email, or by coming into the library during reference service hours.
The library subscribes to many Web-based databases for use by OIT students, staff, and faculty. Access to these databases is limited to users connected to the Web from an OIT computer. If you are using a non-OIT Internet Service Provider (such as AOL, CDSNET, CVC, etc.) you will need to use your OIT email username and password to access the databases from off-campus. Check the library's Interlibrary Loan (ILL) webpage for information on getting loans of books or copies of articles from other libraries. Finding Books - catalogs See Tips for using catalog databases
Books can provide valuable overview information on a topic. Use a library catalog to find books by title, author, or subject. Catalog databases contain records for items held by one library or by a group of libraries. Catalogs also have records for journals, but they do not have information on individual articles in journals.
Use Hedgehog to locate books and journals in the OIT Library. Hedgehog contains records for items in the library's collection. OIT purchases books and journals on psychology from many publishers. The library also receives federal and state government documents relating to applied psychology, including those from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Use SUMMIT to locate books at other academic libraries in the Northwest. Orbis lets you request books online, if they are available for loan, and they will be delivered by courier to the OIT Library, usually within two working days.
Use World Cat to locate books, government documents, CDs, videos, and other items at libraries across North America and elsewhere in the world. A  symbol appearing next to a reference retrieved by a search indicates that the OIT Library owns the item. If the book is not at OIT, students, staff, and faculty can make an online ILL (interlibrary loan) request. Books are usually sent to the OIT Library via U.S. mail so may take a week or more to arrive.
Finding articles - databases See Tips for Using Index Databases
Journal articles are the primary means of formal communication among mental health professionals. Indexes are Web databases containing references to specific journal articles. These databases are produced by several different companies and have different search software, so remember to check the help screens to find out how to do the most effective search. The following indexes contain significant numbers of references to articles on psychology- related subjects. PsycInfo, from the American Psychological Association, is the premier index of professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. Journal articles and book chapters are indexed from 1967 to the present. PsycInfo contains very few records with full text of articles indexed. Check Hedgehog to see if the OIT Library has the item you want. From the American Psychological Association. ERIC ERIC, from Access ERIC, covers all aspects of education, including child development and psychology. ERIC research reports and journal articles are indexed from 1966 to the present. There are very few full text articles included in ERIC. The symbol appearing next to a reference retrieved by a search indicates that the OIT Library owns the item.
Medline, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, covers journal articles in all areas of biomedical sciences from 1966 to the present. Medline contains very few fulltext articles. A symbol appearing next to a reference retrieved by a search indicates that the OIT Library owns the item. Finding facts - reference resources
See Tips for using reference sources The library reference area has books with addresses, definitions, data tables and other factual information. A sample of reference books you may find useful include:
REF B41 .B3. DICTIONARY OF PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
REF BF31 .E5 . ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR
REF BF31 .E52. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOLOGY.
REF BF31 .E553. CONCISE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PSYCHOLOGY
REF BF31 .E555. THE ENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARY OF PSYCHOLOGY
REF BF31 .O94. THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE MIND
REF BF31 .P665. DICTIONARY OF CONCEPTS IN GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
REF BF76.8 .J68. JOURNALS IN PSYCHOLOGY : A RESOURCE LISTING FOR AUTHORS.
REF BF76.8 .P78. PSYCINFO USER MANUAL
REF BF77 .G73. GRADUATE STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGY.
REF BF80.7.U6 B87. ALLYN & BACON GUIDE TO MASTER'S PROGRAMS IN PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
REF RA790 .E53. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MENTAL HEALTH
Finding Web sites See Tips for using Web search engines
Besides using one of the many Web search engines (some good ones are available as links from the OIT Librarys Web search engine page), there are other ways to identify higher-quality websites on your topic.
Use NETFIRST, a Web catalog containing records for selected websites. You can do a keyword search on your specific topic and retrieve a set of links to related sites.
These are some sites providing search capability or links with information on environmental sciences:
American Psychological Association - www.apa.org
U.S. National Institutes of Mental Health - www.nimh.nih.gov
U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse - www.nida.nih.gov
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