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What is RefWorks?

RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic database manager that allows you to keep track of your research and generate properly formatted citations and bibliographies.

Getting Started

Find out more by consulting UNB Libraries’ Guide to RefWorks!

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Register now for an introductory session to RefWorks:

• Wednesday, October 9th (9:30-10:30 am) in the Learning Lab.
• Tuesday, October 15th (1:00-2:00 pm) in the Learning Lab.

Are you taking an undergraduate Psychology course and need to learn which online Psychology resources are available to you? Are you confused by how to narrow your search to quickly find the books and journals you need? If so, then this session is for  you! This introductory session will focus on UNB Libraries’ Psychology Subject Guide, WorldCat, and how to use PsycINFO more effectively.

Register now for the following sessions:

•Wednesday, October 9 (1:30– 2:20 pm) in the Milham Room

•Thursday, October 17 (10:00 – 10:50 am), in the Milham Room

The popular reading collections launched late last year at the HIL and the branch libraries are proving, well, popular. We highly recommend reading for pleasure and relaxation and invite you to visit one of our locations to stock up on great books. You will find both best-selling fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as graphic novels. The collection at the HIL is opposite the Film Collection on the ground floor.

If you have suggestions for books you’d like to see on our shelves, please let us know.

Take a look…

• 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.

Dear St. Thomas University Students:

UNB Libraries look forward to welcoming new and returning students for an exciting and rewarding academic year. We’re ready with collections and services to support your academic success at every stage of your university career.

While we welcome STU students, many of you will find it helpful to know that the student computing lab environment available over the past several years to STU students at the Learning Commons in Harriet Irving Libraries will now be available only to UNB students.  This change is a result of a UNB-wide upgrade to all student computing labs, including the computers in the Commons.  STU and UNB maintain separate IT systems, and UNB’s new student network no longer supports the ‘dual login’ configuration that has allowed for login by both STU and UNB students.

UNB Libraries will continue to provide access to computers for searching the catalogue and accessing licensed eResources.  Printing is also available at the Commons Services Desk.  Wireless access within the libraries supports full access to library resources on student-owned laptops and mobile devices.

Further information is available at the HIL Service Desks.

With all best wishes for the upcoming year,

John Teskey

Director of Libraries

New students on the Saint John campus can come to the Hans W. Klohn Commons to pick up a free copy of Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.

Patrick Rothfuss will be on campus on October 2, 2013.

For more information visit:

//onecampus.unbsj.ca