Psychology

Guides:

• Evaluating Internet Resources
  This guide provides questions to help you analyze internet resources for credibility, reliability, and quality.
• Scholarly Journal Articles v. Popular Magazine Articles 
  This guide provides you with key characteristics to determine whether article is a scholarly, peer-reviewed article.
• How to Find Journal Articles
  This guide provides more in-depth help to searching for articles both online databases.
• How to Order Articles and Books through Interlibrary Loan
  This guides walks you through the steps necessary to order items that are not available within Andersen Library or the UW-System libraries.

Tutorials:

• How to Use FindIt
  This video demonstrates how to use the FindIt button to locate an article.
• Cut & Paste Doesn't Cut It
  This Andersen Library tutorial shows you how to avoid plagiarizing.
• Getting Started with APA Style
  Take this Andersen Library tutorial to learn why to cite and how to use APA style.

Search Tools:

• Research@UWW

  Use the search box on the library website. One search for books, articles, and more.
• Library Databases

  Use the library's databases to locate articles and other resources from a specific subject area (e.g., history, psychology, biology).
• Worldcat

  Use Worldcat to locate books that are not available at UW-Whitewater or another UW System library.
• Course Guides

  Research help & sources customized for a particular course.
• Google Scholar

  Use Google Scholar to locate academic (journal articles, books) information on a topic.
• Internet Search
  For quick facts and a general introduction to topic. Includes resources such as Google (linked above), Bing, and Wikipedia.