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PSY 201/202 - Putnam: For Help

Mary Fairbairn

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Mary Fairbairn
She, her, hers
Contact:
James B. Duke Library
Furman University
3300 Poinsett Highway
Greenville, SC 29613
864-294-3226

Learning Outcomes

  • PsycINFO
    • Creating a search statement
    • Broadening and narrowing searches as needed through
      • Field Searching (title and subject)
      • Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT)
      • Nesting (using the boxes or parentheses)
      • Truncation
      • Phrase delineation (quotation marks)
      • Limiting
        • peer reviewed
        • empirical
        • date
        • English
    • Author searching (last name + author affiliation)
      • Times cited
    • READING ABSTRACTS!
    • Accessing the Full Text
      • PDF
      • Linked Full Text
      • Open Access
      • External Databases
      • Interlibrary Loan