Transcript PSYC 3P46 Psychology of Eating

PSYC 3P46 Psychology
of Eating
Library Seminar
Marcie Jacklin
Liaison Librarian for Biological Sciences
 Substituting for Pam Jacobs, Liaison Librarian for
Psychology
 [email protected]
My example topic:
 Food choices/preferences across the lifespan
 Strategy
 Background – books and wikipedia
 Scholarly information – databases and journals
 Citing information – APA and RefWorks
Food choices/preferences
across the lifespan
 Books
 Library Catalogue
 Print and electronic
 Google e-books
Subject Headings in the Library
Catalogue
 Lifespan not available
 Food choice not available
 FOOD PREFERENCES
From Pam’s pages
 PsycBOOKS@ScholarsPortal - full text of books
published by the American Psychological Association.
 Scholars Portal E-Books - a multidisciplinary collection
of online books
Google e-books – choice and order of
keywords changes the results
May not include the entire ebook
Wikipedia
Databases and Journals
Databases
 Cover different combination of journals
 Difficult to know which one will be the BEST for your
topic
PscyINFO@Scholars Portal
Change the field from
anywhere to abstract
To get more relevant results
Best results using descriptors