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COURSE RELATED RESEARCH INSTRUCTION

Course Name:  ART325/PSY326-- Introduction to Art Therapy
Course Instructor: Britt McDowell
Session Librarian: Tim Hartnett
Session Date: February 19, 2008

FINDING INFORMATION ON ART THERAPY

I.  WEB SITES  

American Art Therapy Association
      (see especially Art Therapy Library Resources Guide (PDF 116K))

American Dance Therapy Association   

American Music Therapy Association

National Association for Poetry Therapy

National Association for Drama Therapy

American Association of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama

II. BOOKS

Within Feinberg Library:     

PlattCat   ("Search Feinberg" link on the Library Homepage)

Beyond Feinberg Library:    

WorldCat  (about)   ("Search Worldwide" link on the Library Homepage)      

NetLibrary  (Electronic books)

III. PERIODICAL DATABASES 

Explore different computer database entries for art therapy -- FOR EXAMPLE: hunt by name ("Edith Kramer"), a general subject ("creative art therapy") or specific subject ("art therapy" and "treatment of pediatric oncology").  You may also try to enter a journal name ("The Arts in Psychotherapy", "The American Journal of Art Therapy") and see what you find.  You can do this in Journals A to Z ["Is a Journal Available Online?" link on the Library Homepage]  to determine which databases include the fulltext of a particular journal.   

Academic Search Premier  (EBSCO)
Large, multidisciplinary, full text database designed especially for colleges & universities with over 4,000 journals in full text as far back as 1975 and indexing for over 8,000 journal titles

Art Full-Text  [Best in field]
Full text peer-selected publications with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism  

CINAHL Plus with Full Text 
Covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/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.

Dissertation Abstracts
Indexes 150 years worth of U.S. doctoral dissertations

ERIC 
Comprehensive index to education journal articles and documents

Medline
Contains citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals (1965 to present)

ProQuest Periodical Abstracts Research II
Search Periodical Abstracts II for full-text information from over 1800 newspapers and periodicals on a wide range of topics including the arts, business, humanities, health, social sciences, sciences.

PsycARTICLES
Provides full-text access to publications of the American Psychological Association (APA), including more than 50 peer-reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books.  Full-text of journals is from 1985 to present; full-text of book chapters is from 2000-2002.  Journals and book chapters are indexed and abstracted in PsycINFO.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
Full text for about 500 journals in the fields of psychology and behavioral sciences.

PsycINFO (csa)  [Best in field]
The premier abstracting service for psychology journals, covers from 1872 to present.

ScienceDirect
Full-text of 700 scientific, business, and medical, and social sciences journals from Elsevier publishing.

Wilson Omnifile
Full-text access to hundreds of magazines and journals. Covers from 1994 to present.

IV.  OBTAINING THE FULL TEXT OF ARTICLES  -- and Journals A to Z

V.  APA CITATION FORMAT

All written work completed in Introduction to Art Therapy is expected to be referenced in APA style. An example of this, using an art therapy text, is below.  Please refer to library-generated handouts on APA style, or consult with a librarian or the Learning Center if you have questions about formatting.

You may also use at your own risk the Landmark Citation Machine.  BE SURE TO DOUBLE CHECK YOUR CITATIONS against the APA guides to make certain that your citations match the established protocols.

VI.  WEB DIRECTORIES & SEARCH ENGINES

Google -- "Google's index, comprised of more than 1 billion URLs, is the first of its kind and represents the most comprehensive collection of the most useful web pages on the Internet."  Give special attention to the new Google tool Scholar (found on the "more >>>" menu).

Clusty -- "queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom."

Web Search Engines (NoodleTools Directory)    

This page was prepared by librarian Tim Hartnett and last updated on 02/20/2008 .