WCSU Libraries

BOOKS & MULTIMEDIA

Search online using keywords and subject headings specific to school and community counseling

• CONSULS (CSU Libraries' combined catalog)
  Books at CCSU, ECSU, SCSU can be delivered to WCSU using the CONSULS "Request Book" feature (accessible from book record display screen, using your library PIN code). 
  
  Other Library Catalogs
  Books from any other library can be delivered to WCSU using Interlibrary Loan.

Subject headings for school and community counseling

school psychology

counseling in elementary education

counseling in secondary education

educational counseling

educational tests and measurements

family counseling

family psychotherapy

Call Numbers for browsing the Haas Library collection (Reference & Circulating Collections)

JOURNALS

Also referred to as scholarly periodicals, peer-reviewed periodicals, refereed publications and professional literature.  Search WCSU Libraries' A-Z Journal Title Locator to search for specific journal title available in print or full text online.

Search more than one Ebsco database to increase the number of full text articles retrieved; use Ebsco's Combined Search option.

• ERIC
  • definitive resource for educational psychology, including school counseling literature 
  • articles (EJs) and documents (EDs)
  • includes searchable ERIC thesaurus

• PsycARTICLES
  • premier psychology resource
  • contains full text of many APA journals

• PsycINFO
  • definitive psychology resource
  • contains some full text
  • search along with Academic Search Premier to increase number of full text articles retrieved

• Educator's Reference Complete (through iCONN)
  • access to over 300 full text journals/magazines for educators

• Academic Search Premier
  • our largest database, covers all disciplines
  • contains many full text articles in education
  • limit to Peer Reviewed articles

• Sociological Abstracts
  • definitive resource for sociology
  • NO full text

LOCATING INFORMATION ON TESTS/MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS

Mental Measurements Yearbook Online (EBSCOhost)

• Online, searchable version of Buros MMY
• 2,000 full text reviews

TIP: Tests in Print (EBSCOhost) *Currently a trial database*

• serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

WEB RESOURCES

Start with authoritative subject guides and directories. Then try searching collections of scholarly and other high quality web resources. For a particularly hard-to-find topic, use a larger general search engine, such as Google.

• WCSU Libraries' Guide to Web Resources in Education
• WCSU Libraries' Measurement & Evaluation Research Guide
• American School Counselors Association
• American Counseling Association
• Counseling Web Resources (Central Michigan University Libraries)
• School Counseling and Psychology Resources (University of Wisconsin-Stout Libraries)
• American Psychological Association
• Infomine: Scholarly Internet Research Collections
• Librarians Index to the Internet
• Google

DOCUMENTATION

Guides to citation formats and paper presentation. Not substitutes for the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), which can be found in Haas at the Reserve desk (call number BF76.7 .P83 2001).

• APA Writing Links (http://www.psych-central.com)
• Electronic Reference Formats (from the APA - http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html)

REMOTE ACCESS

You can access any of the above resources from home, by pointing your browser to http://library.wcsu.edu/. However, to access the journal databases, you will need to be an authenticated WCSU user with:

• Internet Service Provider
• Browser (Netscape, MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox)
• Library PIN

Jenny Innes
Public Services Librarian
innesg@wcsu.edu
203-837-9141
10/07