Internet resources for psychology
By Paul Fehrmann
SO.UIUC.EDU (login at both sites as gopher). Learn how to take advantage of Accessing Gopher resources listed below at such the options offered by Internet “public” sites might involve “browsing” to con nect to them (e.g., use public Gopher to find software reviews by finding SUNY at sers learn on a daily basis that the dyna Plattsburgh directory under New York under U mism of the Internet can challenge efforts USA under North America in the list of all Go to find information, even as it provides expand phers, and then choose SUNY Plattsburgh In ing fruitful options. As noted in the April 1993 formation and finally COMPSYCH). Addition issue of C&RL News, however, working lists of ally, Veronica, the index to Gopher which has resources related to particular subject areas have been under “Other Gopher . . . Servers” at pub been viewed as potentially helpful for those lic sites has been useful for boolean keyword using the Internet. The list below aims to give searches of and connection to Gopher’s menu a beginning set of sources that can be used by resources (again, use of this resource during researchers and students in psychology. “off hours” can be more productive). If readers are aware of other Gopher (WAIS or World Wide Web) resources for psychol OPACs ogy, please contact me at PFEHRMAN@KENT Internet OPACs for areas in psychology might VM.KENT.EDU. be identified using publications such as APA ’s A standard procedure for subscribing to both Guide to Graduate Study in Psychology or the electronic journals and to electronic conferences list of APA programs found each year in the (lists) is given below. These steps work for all American Psychologist. OPAC access informa conferences and journals noted here. Subscrip tion is on most Gophers (e.g., Gopher to Yale’s tion procedures may vary, however, and direc at YALEINFO.YALE.EDU 7000 for keyword tories can help (e.g., The Directory o f Electronic searches using the “search libraries.CA” choice; Journals, Newsletters and Academic Discussion or telnet to ACCESS.USASK.CA and login as Lists, published by the Association of Research HYTELNET for HYTELNET. Two other OPACs Libraries, 1993; or, for an electronic version of are those of the Library of Congress (telnet to that directory containing psychology confer LOCIS.LOC.GOV) and the National Library of ences, ftp to KSUVXA.KENT.EDU, and get the Medicine (telnet to LOCATOR.NLM.NIH.GOV; file ACADLIST.FILE4 in the LIBRARY directory). login as LOCATOR). The Library of Congress Users who have Gopher (and TCP/IP) soft is also making resources available via the Go ware running on their personal computers (or pher; Gopher to MARVEL.LOC.GOV 70. local mainframes) can type in the addresses given below in order to “Gopher to” listed re Electronic serials sources. The Gopher software has been freely The three journals below are peer reviewed. available; but alternate (though limited) access To subscribe to Psycoloquy, as an example: 1) to Gopher resources has also been available address e-mail to this address, by telnetting to “public” sites (preferably at night [email protected]; 2) leave the name or early morning); telnet to CONSUL and e-mail subject fields blank; 3) send this TANT.MICRO.UMN.EDU, or telnet to UX1.C message SUBSCRIBE PSYC Paul Fehrmann
Paul Fehrmann is a librarian at Kent State University Libraries, Ohio; e-mail: [email protected]
510 /C&RL News • Psyc@PUCC (Psycoloquy; all areas of Psy Datafiles chology) • For ICPSR Datafiles/Information: Gopher • Psygrd-J@UOTTAWA (Psycgrad; Psychol to DATALIB.LIBRARY.UALBERTA.CA 70. ogy Graduate Student Articles) • For Social Science Data/Archive Informa • Psyche-L@NKI (Psyche; Consciousness) tion: Telnet to HAR1.HUJI.AC.IL, login as SSDA, • To browse archives of Internet serials, choose Online Aleph and then Social Science Gopher to GOPHER CIC.NET 70; choose Elec Data Archive; for Institute for Research in So tronic Serials, and then the alphabetical listing, cial Sciences Information: Telnet to info.acs.unc and under “p” you can browse or retrieve is .edu, login as INFO; look in Research selection. sues of Psycoloquy or Psycgrad from this site. • For electronic conference discussion of so cial science data: Subscribe to SOS-DATA us Electronic conferences (Listserv lists) ing steps listed above with e-mail to LISTSERV Conferences listed below are a sampling of the @UNCVM1. over 20 in psychology which are currently ac • For Psycoloquy Article (with responses) tive. To subscribe to the electronic conferences proposing archiving and access on the Internet listed below, follow the sample shown above of data gathered in psychology research: Go for subscribing to electronic journals. pher to GOPHER.CIC.NET 70; find Psycoloquy • AUnSM@SJUVM (Developmental Disabilities) under P in alphabetical list under Electronic • BEHAVIOR@ASUACAD (Behavior Disor Serials, and find items PSYC.92.3-29, ders in Children/Youth) PSYC.92.3.55, PSYC.92.3-56, PSYC.92.3-57, the • ADDICT-L@KENTVM (Addictions other articles by Skoyles, Graham, Gelobter and than Alcohol/Drugs) Jennings). ■ • MPSYCH-L@BROWNVM (Mathematical Psychology) • DIV28@GWUVM (APA’s Div 28; Psychop harmacology)
Grants and funding in psychology (Marketing the library con ’tfrom page 504) • Abstracts of NSF Grant Awards in psychol ogy (from 1990): Gopher to STIS.NSF.GOV 70; a part of the computerized education process. do a keyword search on psychology after We will hold another Library Media Fair as choosing the Index to NSF Award Abstracts. soon as we can allocate enough librarian time • Announcements of Grants/Funding in psy to organize and staff it. The only trouble is, just chology: Subscribe to APASD-L; subscription as we’ve been flooded with users anxious to address is LISTSERV® VTVM2. learn how to dial in and search, we’ve had • Also: Telnet to INFO.ACS.UNC.EDU (login massive retirements and a freeze has been INFO), choose Research, and then search key placed on vacant positions. The squeeze be word “psychology” in Grants and Funding Index. tween increased user needs and decreased personnel is on. Software and computer use for psychology research W hat next? The first two of these items have browseable/ So our next step will be to maximize librarian retrievable archives; and MacPsych is keyword time and effort—we’re concentrating on our searchable as well. publications’ program and investing in more • Reviews of Psychology Software: Gopher sophisticated desktop publishing equipment. to BARYON.HAWK.PLATTSBURGH.EDU 70; Our reasoning is that if we take the time to choose SUNY Plattsburgh Information and then produce an eye-catching guide once, it will be COMPSYCH. used hundreds of times (and will be available • Psychology Research with the Macintosh: even when a librarian isn’t). Gopher to GOPHER.STOLAF.EDU 70; under That single media fair made so many users Network Resources, then St. Olaf Mailing Lists. aware of our services that we’re still following • Discussion of Experiment Generator Pack up with passwords and answering incoming ages: Subscribe to PSYCH-EXPTS; send e-mail phone calls nearly a year later. As a means of to [email protected]; message = marketing the library in its most positive light, join psych-expts yourFirstname yourLastname we highly recommend the fair format. ■
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