Sources and search process for counselling students Points to remember 1.

Spend some time thinking about important and alternative search words to describe your topic. Different databases might use alternative terms to describe the same subject, or the same database might display a greater number of relevant records when synonyms are used eg: multicultural counselling or crosscultural counselling 2. Keep a record of the references that you find so you can compile your bibliography 3. Always check the University Library catalogue before requesting items on inter-library loan. Searching for journals (=periodicals) in the University Library Search for a journal title eg: British journal of guidance and counselling and link to the electronic version where available (in this case links to Swetswise). A list of journal titles is also available from the Counselling subject page at: http://w3.yorksj.ac.uk/library/library--information-services/my-subject/health-and-lifesciences/counselling/journals-for-counselling.aspx Catalogue The new library catalogue searches in a different way. See separate sheet of tips for searching. Catalogue Plus This is a new additional catalogue which enables you to search for journal articles within our library stock. Databases The list below is a guide to useful databases. Access is direct within the University and off-campus you can access databases by entering your university username and password which is also called the ATHENS password. EBSCO This is a collection of databases which help you to search for articles in journals and sometimes book chapters, reports etc. Some of the databases provide indexing and abstracting details only, while others also link to the full text of the articles. There are several databases on Ebsco which are relevant for counselling: PsycINFO: Psychology related resources (indexing and abstracts), PsycArticles: Full text articles on psychology and some counselling (70 full text journal titles); Cinahl: Health-related resources (indexing and abstracts). Remember that all the full text journals on PsycARTICLES are indexed on PsycINFO anyway. Some changes have been made to the layout of the EBSCO databases this summer. The limit options (to limit to our library and limit to date of publication etc) have been moved from the right side of the screen to the left. PsycINFO You may find it useful to watch the tutorial about using PsycINFO available from the counselling subject page at: http://library.yorksj.ac.uk/tutorials/PsycINFO/ All EBSCO databases will show if the item listed is held in the University Library, and to limit search to our library alone, use the option Journals held by the University library. Subject headings use American spellings (eg: counseling) Examples of searches: Counselling for drug abuse Search terms: drug abuse or drug addiction (PsycINFO searches for the terms as a phrase) AND counseling or psychotherapy (as subjects) Add further search words in the third search box to narrow down the search results eg: family

Other search examples: Counsel?ing and primary care limited to a particular journal eg: Counselling psychology quarterly in the publication name index. You can also search more than one database at once eg: PsycINFO, Cinahl by selecting Choose databases. Cinahl (Cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature). Example of a search about counselling for breast cancer: breast cancer and counsel?ing and limit to journals held by University library. Other databases Academic OneFile Electronic journals package which has general subject coverage including counselling topics and is partly full text and partly abstracts only. The results default to full text, but you can search the whole database if only a few results are retrieved. Examples of searches: drug abuse or drug addiction and counsel* or therapy American spellings are used in the subject index so use the same technique as with PsycINFO. Browsing subject headings to find out what terms are used finds: Drug abuse counseling and alcoholism counseling Zetoc Zetoc provides access to the British Librarys electronic table of contents of journals and conference proceedings, which means that your search will retrieve journal articles that are held at the British Library and they therefore should be easily available on Inter-library loan. Search example: brief therapy (inverted commas searches for a phrase) and family in All fields. Or limit to a particular journal title eg brief therapy in the Journal of family therapy Electronic journals (by title) or e-journal finder This provides access to the full text of hundreds of electronic journals, available both on subscription and freely accessible via the Internet. It isnt possible to search for articles on a topic, only to check if a particular journal is available electronically and then browse the articles within that journal. All journals that we can access full text, no matter what the package/database, should be listed here. Getting hold of the material Inter-Library loans allocation: 20 requests across years two and three. For more information go to our Inter-library loans page at: http://w3.yorksj.ac.uk/library/library--information-services/get-help/help-andinformation/inter-library-loans.aspx Reading room at Boston Spa at http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/inrrooms/bspa/bostonspa.html Reference use of other local libraries, for example, York and Leeds University Libraries. York University will allow reference access so it should be possible to browse journals. Try out some of the following search topics on PsycINFO and Academic OneFile: Bereavement counselling Counselling for asylum seekers Effectiveness of group counselling for adults who were abused as children The effect on the counsellor or therapist of counselling victims of post-traumatic stress disorder

Tips for searching the new library catalogue Catalogue Searches for books, journal titles, ebooks, DVDs, CDs, videos. Author title search best method of finding a book is to enter a mixture of author surname and some words from the title of the book eg: Mcleod counselling Type search words in top box then limit results if necessary by using the left hand menus which refine your search results by author or year of publication or format (= type of material) such as book, journal or internet resource = electronic book. View all editions and formats link When you display the list of results, the most recent edition of a book is not always displayed. To see the full range of editions available, click the link to View all editions and formats. Use variant spelling of counsel?ing subject headings on the catalogue are American, so (unless you know the title of the item is using the English spelling) you need to search for the word counsel? ing to retrieve both the English and American spellings. Otherwise you might miss relevant books.

Catalogue Plus This catalogue searches for all the resources mentioned above PLUS journal articles. This is still experimental and not all the journal articles will be available electronically, but could just be in print or there might be a glitch with accessing the full text especially if it is available via Academic OneFile. If you have difficulty accessing an article, please ask the library staff at the Information desk or contact the subject librarian. Tips for advanced searching: Use phrase search and alternative spellings eg: bereavement counsel?ing cognitive behavio?r therapy Linking alternative terms using OR (must be in capital letters) eg: grief OR bereavement Complex searches eg: combining alternative terms with a third term: (grief OR bereavement) AND counsel?ing How to link to the full text of the articles on Catalogue Plus: Click on the articles title to get to the next screen Scroll down the screen to click on the button displayed below:

When you reach the e-journal finder screen, select Find Article to download the full text as a PDF.