Integrating Information Literacy - Discipline Specific Resources

Integrating Information Literacy :: Discipline Specific Resources :: Psychology

Psychology

Objectives
Syllabi
Assignments
Bibliography
Links
Projects
Tutorials

Objectives

for teaching information literacy competencies

Syllabi

that incorporate information literacy

Persson, Dottie, Johnson, Becky and McInroy, Mary. 7H:201 Information Resources. University of Iowa.

Created by the Psychology Librarian at the University of Iowa. The course is geared towards helping the graduate psychology student meet their information needs.

Assignments

useful for teaching information literacy

Research Strategy Assignments, Stauffer Library, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario).

Assignment of survey conducted on IL at Queen's University.

Bibliography

of useful publications and resource materials

Sutton, E. D., Feinberg, R. P., & Levine, C. R. "Bibliographic instruction in psychology: a review of the literature." Reference Services Review. 1995, 23, (3).
Vorst, H. M. "Effectiveness of a short course on library use and literature searching." Open. 1978, 10, 487-489.

Links

to useful websites

Information Literacy: Journal Articles, American Association of School Librarians.

The American Library Association has an excellent "general purpose" bibliography of information literacy journal articles.
Information Literacy: Selective Bibliography, Library, University of California, Berkeley.

UC Berkeley has an excellent "general purpose" bibliography of information literacy journal articles.
Information Literacy Bibliography, K. Alix Hayden, Library Information Literacy Group, University of Calgary.

"General purpose" bibliography of book and journal articles, prepared by K. Alix Hayden.
Nebraska Wesleyan University's Psychology Department's Course Information Page.

This site contains brief overviews of the following topics: review & research papers, graph making, researching your ideas, PsychINFO, & APA tips.
CROW: Course Resources On the Web.

Site for Social Psychology faculty members ("Resources for the teaching of Social Psychology"). Includes assignments, exams, activities, links..
Amoeba Web's Research Writing, Methods, and Ethics, Vanguard University

Covers a wealth of information relating to research writing, research methods, and research ethics. This site is geared towards the psychology student.
Psych Web: Psych Web Resources.

Contains a large amount of information on all topics related to psychology, especially useful for teachers and students. Covers finding and evaluating information, APA style, as well as a vast listing of online psychology journals.
PsychINFO Tutorials covering basic and/or advanced PsychINFO search skills:

Projects

funded by the Five Colleges of Ohio Mellon grant

Psych 100. Kenyon College: Gambier, Ohio.
Psych 209. Washington University.

Introduces principles of the literature review in psychology. Four parts: publication process in Psychology; tutorial on searching PsycINFO; links databases; material for doing research in Psychology.
Information Literacy Tutorial in Psychology. Kenyon College: Gambier, Ohio.

Tutorials

that teach information literacy competencies

Last Modified:
Modified from work by Brad S. Matthies,
Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, June 2001