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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