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Finding Journal Articles
Questions
- Determine whether each of the following is a popular magazine or scholarly journal article. List criteria that support your evaluation.
Circle one
- Journal
- Popular magazine
Criteria supporting decision:
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- Journal
- Popular magazine
Criteria supporting decision:
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- Examine each article below and determine which type of scholarly article it is. (Circle one.)
- Research
- Review
- Case Study
- Theoretical Opinion
- Research
- Review
- Case Study
- Theoretical
- Opinion
- Research
- Review
- Case Study
- Theoretical
- Opinion
- In PsycINFO what is the Thesaurus term for "domination"?
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- Search PsycINFO for the following topic with the specified limitations. Choose one record that is highly relevant and print off the complete reference. Hand it in with your exercise sheet.
Topic: The effect of birth order on personality
Limitations:
- journal articles only
- empirical studies only
- last 5 years
- English
- If you were interesed in a topic related to medicine, name one index besides PsycINFO that you might use in a search for articles.
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- List two ways citation indexes are helpful in research.
a. ____________________________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________________________
- Look up the Journal of Marriage and Family in Periodical Locator. In which format is the volume for 1995?
(Circle all that apply.)
a. current issue b. bound c. microfilm d. microfiche e. electronic
- How much does each Interlibrary Loan cost?
free $5 $10
