Spring 2009 Letter

Hello! This is Rebecca Knight at the Library. I want to remind everyone that I am the library liaison to the Human Development and Family Studies Department and the selector for materials related to those subject areas.

Due to the University’s budget concerns, we will not be ordering any materials until the new fiscal year. I will be glad to hear suggestions from you and hold on to them until the next order period.

You may use the Recommendation for Library Purchase form if you like.

Library Workshops

The Workshops for Spring 2009 include sessions on Citing with APA Style, Web of Science (citation database), RefWorks (bibliographic management system), research funding resources, and multimedia tools.

For the full schedule, see
Workshops for Spring 2009

Instruction Sessions

Contact me if you would like to schedule a library instruction session for yourself, your department, or your students. A one-hour presentation that describes the key indexes and databases for family topics will assist students in finding quality sources for their research projects. I will be happy to work with you to find a convenient time and location to meet with your class.

Library Web Resources for Human Development and Family Studies

The Resources for Human Development and Family Studies subject page includes research guides, Internet resources, selected Library databases, electronic journal subscriptions, and contact information.
It is also possible for me to prepare a webpage for a particular class if one is needed.

I hope your semester goes smoothly.  Contact me if I can be of assistance.

Regards,

Rebecca

RefWorks and New APA Electronic Citation Style

Adding the DOI to RefWorks — in some cases, the DOI is not in the record when you import it from a database. You will need to enter it manually.

RefWorks has updated their APA information about DOIs. The “Additional Comments about APA…” screen (found at the bottom of an reference in Edit view) says:

“DOI field only appears when the source type of the reference is set to electronic and the field populated with information. … There is no need to include the date of retrieval and the database or URL when the DOI is used. …”

Here is an example of an article with a DOI cited in APA from the 2007 update, p. 9.

Shanahan, M. (2005). Perception as abduction: Turning sensor
data into meaningful representation. Cognitive Science,
29(1), 103–134. doi:10.1207/s15516709cog2901_5

Here is an example of an article in a database cited in APA from the 2007 update, p. 12:*

Morrissey, J. P. (2004). Medicaid benefits and recidivism of
mentally ill persons released from jail (NCJ No. 214169)
[Abstract]. Retrieved from National Criminal Justice Reference
Service abstracts database.

Here is a similar reference formatted in RefWorks:

Lee, B. (2007). Caregiving: A far-reaching public health concern. American Journal of Public Health, 97(11), 1931-1932. Retrieved from CINAHL Plus database.

* the example cites an abstract, but the principle is the same.