Psychology 40: Sex Role Socialization
Fall 2003
ENCYCLOPEDIAS, DICTIONARIES | CATALOGS, INDEXES, DATABASES | JOURNALS | THE WEB | CITING SOURCES
ENCYCLOPEDIAS, HANDBOOKS, DICTIONARIES
If you are looking for quick background
about theories, vocabulary, or brief recommendations for reading, these
may help:
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender (Frost Ref HQ 1115 E43 2001)
Substantial surveys of topics by scholars. Good for
outlines of the field, important names, and some further readings.
Gender Roles: A Handbook of Tests and Measures (Frost Ref HM 253
B43 1990)
Descriptions of tests, with extensive references to
literature that has used or evaluated them. Good for citations only up
through late 1980s.
Encyclopedia of Psychology (Science Ref BF 31 E52 2000)
An 8-volume set with articles on many aspects of Psychology.
Some recommended readings at the end of essays.
Handbook of Psychology (Science REF BF121 H1955 2003)
Extensive surveys, in 12 volumes, of the field and its
research. Excellent bibliographies with each review. Dig a little to find
information on gender roles and identity.
International
Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
A huge, scholarly encyclopedia that covers sociology,
social theory, important people, related behavioral sciences, etc.
Oxford
Reference Online: Dictionary of Psychology
For the quick definition or identification from any
computer on campus.
CATALOGS, INDEXES, DATABASES
The 4- College
Library Catalog and the UMass
Library Catalog
The most important research tools the Library offers.
Access to all books and journals (journal titles, not contents of journals)
as well as videos, DVDs, CDs, some websites, and more. Start your research
here.
PsycInfo
Database covers the professional and academic literature
in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry,
sociology, education, linguistics, etc., from 1887 just about up to today.
Look for words and phrases from the database's formal thesaurus to enrich
your searching. Follow up with other citations in some references.
Annual
Review of Psychology and Annual Review of Psychology in print
(Science BF 30 A56)
Search the online version or check the tables of contents
in the print for reviews of literature relevant to this course. Full reviews
online starting with 1996. Read earlier essays in the Science Library.
Great bibliographies at end of each literature review.
Sociological
Abstracts
Online index to scholarly articles, reviews, chapters,
and conference papers in sociology and related social sciences.
GenderWatch
Database of online articles about all aspects of gender,
sex roles, sexual orientation, etc. from a wide variety of journals. Watch
out: a few titles give you only abstracts, not full articles.
Expanded
Academic ASAP and Academic
Search Premier
Two databases which give references to articles from
journals in many disciplines, many with complete texts of the articles.
Often interesting material turns up in them for courses like this.
FINDING ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
Bibliographies and online indexes provide citations
to articles in journals that may or may not be readily available in Frost
or the Science Library. This year we have a new ACLinks service
for many databases. When you find a citation that interests you and you
find the ACLinks logo or a link that offers more information about
finding the article, click on it. The system checks to see whether there
is an electronic copy of the article available. If there is not, you can
select an automatic search of the library catalog to see whether the Amherst
or another 4-College Library has the journal in print.
If you already have a reference and want to know whether
the Library has an electronic version, fill in the blanks of the new Citation
Linker, and it will search for a copy, offer you a catalog search
for the title of the journal, or, if you choose, look for a copy of the
article posted out on the Web. When in doubt, check the online library
catalog yourself under the title of the journal (not the article).
THE WEB AND WEBSITES
There are more scholarly websites appearing
every day, even though out on the Web, for some topics, you still encounter
more enthusiasts than scholars. Try for papers, reports of experiements,
statistics, etc., with
Google, the librarians' favorite search engine. When you find an interesting
website, ask: Who made this site? Can I tell anything about the author?
Is it sponsored by a credible organization? Is the information posted
here current?
CITING SOURCES
Be sure to credit the sources you use for a research
project -- whether printed books and journals or online texts, websites,
etc. Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.
(5th ed.) (Frost or Science REF BF76.7 P83 2001)
The APA-approved guide to citing literature in psychology
papers and publications.
Using
APA Format
Purdue University's electronic handout for using APA
style manual.
Electronic
Reference Formats Recommended by the American Psychological Association
Don't forget to clearly acknowledge online publications
and websites. The APA's official citation format for electronic sources.
Do you have questions about research for this course? Contact Margaret Adams Groesbeck (magroesbeck) at Frost or Susan Kimball (sjkimball) at Keefe Science Library