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This may take several goes so, particularly in the early days, always try different ways of searching. It is also well worthwhile exploring the tools that each database provides for doing searches. You will find they differ and it is not until you have played around with them that you discover all the things they can do for you, so try to search, at least the first or second time, when you are not in a rush to find something. Electronic journals and books USING IT 75 One of the big advantages of the databases Web of Knowledge and PsycINFO is that they can be linked to your university library catalogue to tell you whether a particular reference is available electronically. If it is, you will be able to reach the full article with a couple of mouse clicks, usually from your own machine anywhere in the world as well as from the university computers. The usefulness of this facility will depend on the number of electronic journals to which the library subscribes. Current issues of all journals are now available electronically, but they are often expensive so your library may not subscribe to them. Nor will there usually be electronic versions of early issues of the journals, although these are steadily being scanned in, so it is always worth checking. You will therefore still sometimes have to use the hard copies in your library. The library catalogue will tell you if there is an electronic subscription available and what years it covers. However, you do now often have the choice of reading an article online or in the library. It will be for you to work out your preferred pattern of working, but the speed, flexibility and convenience of working with electronic journals is now very attractive. Normally you would not bother to save an electronic journal article in your own electronic filing system unless you thought you were going to be referring to it many times, perhaps because it is a valuable review of a central topic in a module or is the basis of a final-year project. If you can afford it, of course, you can also print them out so that you have your own hard copy to carry around, scribble on and read in bed. Electronic books are not yet as widely available as journals, and the technology for reading on a screen, while fine for journal articles, is arguably not well enough developed for browsing through a long book. You will also need some specialist software – such as ebrary Reader – on the computer you are using, but these are usually available to download free. Unless you have a very big screen for a split display, or several networked computers around you, you cannot have several books open around you online while you are writing on-screen. They do, however, have one big advantage over hard copies and that is the speed with which they can be searched. So if you find that your library does stock an electronic copy of a book in which you want to look something up (and, as always, the catalogue will tell you), then it is very convenient. At the time of writing, not many relevant
76 STUDY SKILLS FOR PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS electronic textbooks are available for psychology, but this is a fast-moving area and most university libraries are rapidly expanding their stock. Our prediction is that by the time the second edition of this book is published, they will have become a much more dominant medium. Tip: Using ‘Favourites’ ➢ Put the sites you use most often in your ‘Favourites’ folder, and the ones you use very often in the ‘Links’ folder of ‘Favourites’ so that they appear on the tool bar across the top of your web pages. What you put here depends on your particular style of working, but here are some of the most popular options that often appear on psychology students’ tool bars: What should you buy? your internet bank account (if you have one) VLE library catalogue PsycINFO WoK. All the resources we have been describing so far will be available to you via the university’s computers. Much of the teaching on using these resources will be done on them and it is essential that you familiarize yourself with how they are set up. There will be staff available to advise you how to use them and at least some of them should be available 24 hours a day, so it is perfectly possible to rely on university resources and flourish, especially if you live near the university and do not mind getting up early to find a good place to work. There will also be long periods between lectures when it may be much more convenient to go in and work on a machine in the library or learning resource centre than lug your own laptop around, and, most importantly, the university’s back-up system will be totally safe from fire, theft and spilt coffee. Nevertheless, there is no doubt that having your own IT equipment means you will, while it is working at least, be in control of your own life, and this is something that most of us find attractive. As with deciding what textbooks to buy (page 36), in the end this is a decision you will have to make for yourself. You will have to take into account the following questions. • How have you been used to working and how do you see yourself working in the future? • Do you find working in a communal environment motivating or distracting?
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