Psychology Resources

SFU Libraries is pleased to announce our new Txt Us service. Now you can ask the library questions via cell phone text weekdays from 9-4:30. Use Txt Us to ask simple, quick questions (up to 160 characters) that can be answered in brief responses (up to 320 characters). If our responses exceed 160 characters, they appear as 2 messages.

Should your question require a more lengthy or detailed response, we will forward your question to the most appropriate liaison librarian. Questions sent outside of service hours will be answered the next service day.

Staff at the SFU Library are developing a new search tool for the library’s web site.  The new tool simultaneously searches several different library services from a single search box.

Please test it out and let us know what you think: http://search.lib.sfu.ca/ 

 A short survey asking for your thoughts is here: https://websurvey.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WebSurvey.woa/wa/survey?85247430.  

In lieu of the survey, you are also welcome to contact the library’s Web Libriaran Nina Saklikar (nsaklika@sfu.ca) directly. 

Thank you for your time in providing feedback. Your comments are a great help to the library in keeping our resources convenient and accessible.

SFU researchers now have access to a unique online tool for exploring research methodologies. Sage Research Methods Online provides background on major methodologies through:

-Over 600 ebooks
-Methodology-related reference sources (dictionaries, encyclopedias)
-Journal articles discussing methodological issues
-Videos

Methods Map
The most unique feature of this resource is the Methods Map, a visual tool allowing users to survey a range of qualitative and quantitative methodologies from autoethnography to data-mining, and containing over 1,400 unique terms including investigator bias, cluster analysis, critical discourse analysis and much more.

Try out this unique resource and give us your feedback!

SFU Library currently has trial access to Psychiatry Online, a resource which provides online access to the DSM-IV-TR® Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The resource can be accessed here until June 24th, and we appreciate your feedback. Comments can be sent to Andrea Cameron (amcamero@sfu.ca) or Yolanda Koscielski (ysk6@sfu.ca).

From the publisher’s website:

The DSM-IV-TR Online Only subscription also includes access to the complete DSM archives (DSM-I, DSM-II, DSM-III, DSM-III-R, DSM-IV, and a couple of significant changes to between-edition printings) for research and archiving purposes; as well as the APA Practice Guidelines, abstracts from AJP in Advance and Psychiatric News.

Additional features:

* Remote access for authorized users
* No concurrent usage restrictions
* PDA downloads
* Ability to email full text of individual sections to colleagues
* Mobile access

LibX is a browser plugin. By adding it to your browser toolbar (Firefox or IE)  you can quickly check whether SFU Library has a book or article that you’ve come across online. Originally developed by Virginia Tech and modified for SFU by our Systems programmers, with LibX you can…Right-click on a title, author, keyword, or phrase and directly search the SFU Library catalogue; Right-click on a title (etc.) and directly search Google Scholar (which can then connect you to SFU databases); Right-click on an article’s abstract at a publisher site and reload it through our proxy servers so that the publisher knows you are an SFU researcher and let’s you view it (if we subscribe).

Downloading takes only a minute. You’ll find the link and further instructions on use here: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/my-library/services-for-you/libx-browser-plugin

For assistance with LibX, please email SFU Library Systems at libhelp@sfu.ca

Avoid typing your barcode by renewing library items from your SFU Connect email. Just click on the “MySFU” tab and choose “My Library Record”.  For more information see http://www.lib.sfu.ca/faqs/mysfu-my-library-record-barcode.