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• PsycBOOKS
• PsycTESTS

PsycBOOKS is a comprehensive source of chapters from thousands of scholarly and professional books published by the APA and other distinguished publishers, indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

In this e-resource, you can access the following:

• approximately 55,000 chapters in PDF from over 3,500 books
• nearly 2,600 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology, dating from the 1600s
• more than 1,500 authored entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology
• digitized content from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection

PsycTESTS, produced by the APA, provides access to tests that are relevant to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. It is a unique database providing descriptive summaries, full text, and relevant citations on the development and assessment of tests and measures that can be used in research and teaching. Each record includes data on the scope of the test, test implementation, a high-level overview of the test’s development, and reliability and validity data (when available). International in scope, PsycTESTS provides access to an increasing number of tests in languages other than English. While focused on contemporary instances of test use, coverage dates from 1910 to the present.

Updated monthly, PsycTESTS includes Master test profiles and actual tests or test items for:

• Unpublished tests
• Tests developed by psychologists for which no source document has been located
• Information about published tests available from commercial publishers

Content covers diverse subject areas and types of tests, including:

• Developmental Measures
• Scales for Beliefs, Relationships, or Expectancies
• Aggression, Coping, or Functional Status Questionnaires
• Racial and Ethnic Identity Scales
• Resilience, Anger Response, or Substance Abuse Inventories
• Physical Health Related Assessments
• Personality Assessments
• Educational Measures
• Neuropsychological Assessments
• Aptitude and Achievement Measures
• Competency Measures
• Occupational Measures
• Intelligence Tests
• Military Tests

If you would like more information about PsycBOOKS or PsycTESTS, please contact Linda Roulston, Psychology Librarian, (451-6879); for more resources relevant to studies in Psychology, please consult UNB Libraries’ Psychology Guides.

For help with any of UNB Libraries’ resources, contact the HIL Research Help Desk in person, by telephone (453-3546), by email, or by Ask Us.

Music Online is a comprehensive and high quality streaming audio collection that supports the teaching and research of music.

Some highlights:

• streaming access to over 765,000 tracks, including over 45,000 unique recordings
• new recordings are added monthly
• unlimited simultaneous users

Listening databases include:

• American Song
• Classical Music Library
• Contemporary World Music
• Jazz Music Library
• Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries

For more information about Music Online, please contact James MacKenzie, Music Librarian, (458-7058); for more resources, please consult UNB Libraries’ Guide to Music.

For help with any of UNB Libraries’ resources, contact the HIL Research Help Desk in person, by telephone (453-3546), by email, or by Ask Us.

Check out 3 new databases!

• CINAHL® with Full Text
• CultureVision™
• Natural Standard

CINAHL® with Full Text
(Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) provides access to the fulltext of articles for more than 610 nursing & allied health journals back to 1981 and indexes more than 3,000 journals. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative and complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines. In addition, this database offers access to health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals and book chapters. Searchable cited references for more than 1,290 journals are also included.

CultureVision™ is a comprehensive searchable database providing information on over 50 different ethnic, cultural, religious, and ability groups on such topics as communication, family patterns, nutrition, treatment protocols, and mental health issues. CultureVision™ is the first comprehensive, user-friendly database that gives healthcare professionals access to culturally competent patient care.

Natural Standard was founded by healthcare providers and researchers to provide high-quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies, including nutritional supplements. Contributors from more than 50 academic institutions systematically gather scientific data, expert opinions, and use validated rating scales to evaluate the quality of available evidence.

For more information about CINAHL® with Full Text, CultureVision™, or Natural Standard, please contact Frances Giberson, Nursing Librarian, (453-4602); for more resources relevant to studies in nursing, please consult UNB Libraries’ Nursing Guides.

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A NEW research database in UNB Libraries’ collection, MERGENT Online provides access to the most detailed financial data available for over 25,000 public U.S. and global companies.

• Searching by company name or ticker symbol enables our university community to seamlessly access reports, including company histories, executives, ownership, key financials, equity pricing, reports, filings, news, competitors, plus a customized Report Builder.
• Company financial reports for up to 15 years can be downloaded via Excel spreadsheet software.
• MERGENT also offers access to real-time government company filings via the SEC (U.S.) and SEDAR (Canada).
• Additional attributes include a Global Private Company database for over 20 million private companies, reports (industry or equity), economic indicators, and country profiles.

For more information about MERGENT Online, please contact Leanne Wells, Business Librarian, (447-3075); for more resources relevant to studies in Business, please consult UNB Libraries’ Business Administration Guides.

For help with any of UNB Libraries’ resources, contact the HIL Research Help Desk in person, by telephone (453-3546), by email, or by Ask Us.

A NEW research database in UNB Libraries’ collection, SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.

SocINDEX provides access to:

• 890 full-text journals dating back to 1908
• 850 full-text books
• 16,800 conference papers
• abstracts for more than 1,300 core journals dating back to 1985

View a list of fulltext journal included in SocINDEX that includes coverage dates.

For more information about SocINDEX with Full Text, please contact Barry Cull, Sociology Librarian, (458-7057); for more resources relevant to studies in Sociology, please consult UNB Libraries’ Sociology Guides.

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Reference Universe is a unique database that provides searchable access to UNB Libraries’ collection of reference materials, both online and on the shelf.
Reference Universe searches through the tables of contents and the indexes from over 20,000 dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, almanacs, and other reference materials, and connects you to relevant articles through:

• Links to Quest (the library catalogue)
• Links to full-text online reference entries

Search Reference Universe:

By default, only materials available at UNB Libraries are included in your search results. To search beyond UNB Libraries, be sure to select “Non-Local Holdings Only.” Your search results will include both online and print materials.

Online…

You can easily identify online materials by noting the “e-source” symbol. In the example above, click on “Link to 1 Article Title,” then click on the “e-link” for the article you wish to view.

On the shelf…

Click on the title to connect to UNB Libraries’ Quest catalogue in order to find out exactly where the book is located.

Reference Universe also returns a list of article titles and/or index entries related to your search. Click “View Article Title” or “View Index Entries.”

Check out more Reference Materials in UNB Libraries’ collection!

For more help, visit or call the HIL Research Help Desk (453-3546), email, or Ask Us.

 

CREDO Reference gives you content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject. There are over 3 million entries, 200,000+ images (art, diagrams, maps and photos), and over 100,000 audio pronunciation files and sound clips. The content is enriched by a network of cross-reference links that cut across topics and titles to give you accurate, contextual results.

Find rich content for a variety of academic disciplines:

• Art and Music
• Business
• Geography
• History
• Law
• Literature and Language
• Medicine
• Religion
• Science

Four Ways to Search CREDO Reference:

Keyword Search

Use a Keyword Search on the entire Credo Collection.

Find a Book

Browse through UNB Libraries’ Credo title list with the Find a Book option.

Advanced Search

Narrow your focus with the Advanced Search.

Concept Map

Visualize your topic with the Concept Map.

Need more help? Consult the more comprehensive User Guide to Credo Reference.

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Blackwell Reference Online is a collection of over 360 e-books in the humanities and social sciences. Full-text, searchable titles include:

• Blackwell’s Handbook and Companion series, which offer essay-length critical overviews of key topics in classics, history, literature, psychology, sociology and other subject areas.
• Major multi-volume reference works, including the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, Encyclopedia of Sociology, and others.
• A selection of dictionaries and concise companions, for definitions and quick facts.

Blackwell Reference Online offers three easy ways to find materials on your topic:

Search

Your results will list all matching entries ordered by relevance. Click on the title to view. Citation information is included at the end of each entry.

Browse

To find an e-book title of interest to you, browse major subject areas.

Explore

Discover titles and essays by selecting a subject, place, period, or person.

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Oxford Reference Online brings language and subject reference works into a cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up-to-date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions series.

Oxford Reference Online offers multiple ways to search for relevant material:

Phrase Searching

You can search for an exact phrase by enclosing it in double quotation marks (e.g. “bury my heart”).

Multiple Term Searching

If you enter more than one search term, the search engine will look first for all of your search terms in entry headings and other key elements of an entry (e.g. variant forms or section headings). If no matches are found there, the search engine will look for your search terms in the full text of the entries.

Wildcards

Use wildcards to widen the scope of your search. Wildcards are special characters that match any character or sequence of characters. For instance, an asterisk (*) stands for zero or more characters (it can represent single numbers or letters, several characters, even whole words). Thus, a search for car* might find carnal, cardamom, Caribbean, carminative, while *car might find Madagascar, verificar, buffet car, and Wilde, Oscar.If you search for car* at a global level—across all subjects and books—in the Oxford Reference Online database, you may get more results than expected. In this case, restrict your search to a particular subject or book, or try an Advanced Search instead.

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Feeling overwhelmed by your search results?
Are you stressed by the acronyms APA or MLA?

There is a better way…
RefWorks is a tool to help you keep track of your research!

Using RefWorks, not only can you easily import citations from various article and research databases into your own account, but you can also add references to your papers that will be automatically formatted in the citation style of your choice!

In addition to organizing your own research, RefWorks can be used in other important ways to facilitate teaching and learning, such as managing course reading lists or building bibliographies collaboratively.

Sign up for a RefWorks account or find more information at lib.unb.ca/RefWorks