This document provides an overview of research tools and resources available to school psychologists from Eastern Washington University Libraries. It highlights key databases such as PsycINFO, EBSCOhost, and Sage Reference that contain articles, encyclopedias, and other sources relevant to psychology. Features of the databases like filtering by date, saving articles to folders, and citation tools are outlined. Individual resources like the Mental Measurements Handbook and research guides on specific topics are also mentioned. Contact information is provided for the Learning Resources Librarian to get help using these research tools.

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Researching Tools for School
Psychologists

2. Reminders of Tools-Resources Shown
http://ewu.edu/library
Access to Eastern resource s off-campus requires logging in with
your itech account
If you do not know your user name or password
( the password must change every 90 days)
http://accounts.ewu.edu allows you to put in your EU ID number, name
and date of birth to re-set your password

3. Reminders
 Key resources
 Screen shots of the top of the page
 Key point to remember
 Ask if you have trouble using these resources
 Nadean Ask Nadean or
 As Ask a Librarian (phone, email,
chat) chat)

4. EWU Libraries http://ewu.edu/library
Catalog and some articlesFind articles and research guides

5. http://research.ewu.edu/school-psych

6. Sage Reference- Background
Search all e-encyclopedias at once

7. Research Guides- all subjects & AtoZ

8. Counseling & Therapy Video

9. Psych Articles & Psych Info
 Look of EBSCOHost databases- any subject

10. EBSCO Host Databases Features
 Default to latest- change to RELEVANCE
 Can limit by date- left side
 Folder- if you make an account , it will retain your
folders
 Folders- allow management of your articles- email,
save to USB, or export to RefWorks
 Top left bar- Thesaurus- terms
 Right side tools also include CITE- correct APA 6th
edition citation

11. Visual Search- finding terms & focus

12. One good article leads to another
 The subject terms
 The words in the abstract- often contain name of a
measurement tool
 Cited references- hotlinks to references for that
article
 Times cited in this database- list of newer articles
that cite this article
 Authors- links to other articles by the person

13. Check for fulltext
 If the full text of the article is not in that databases
 Click on
 This button will try to get the full text from another
EWU database OR Google OR auto-fill out the Inter-
Library Loan ( ILL) Form
 EWU will get you a copy of the article and send you
an email to pick up the pdf full text at your ILL
account

14. Mental Measurements Handbook

15. Further information
 http://research.ewu.edu/schol-psych
 Send your feedback for usefulness and other sources
 Further resources not shown during this
presentation
 More resources under psychology and education
guides
 Ask when you have questions
 Ask a librarian
 Nadean nmeyer@ewu.edu