Library Subject Guides:
Library Subject Guides are under development to serve purposes requested by faculty for their courses and programs. Students who need assistance finding materials in the library are encouraged to contact the Liaison Librarian for the program the course is taught in.
For Students and Faculty:
CSC King Library librarians attend to each educational program as Liaison Librarians. Liaison Librarians focus on resources in specific subject or program areas. Contact your Liaison Librarian for assistance in your subject area.
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Psychology Guide to Research and Writing
This guide is prepared for students who are planning to write a psychology research paper. The resources can be used by the beginning student in learning to research and write to the graduate level researcher.
The Concise Guides to Conducting Behavioral, Health, and Social Science Research:
Conducting your Literature Review Designing and Proposing your Research Project How to Interview and Conduct Focus Groups
Managing your Research Data Selecting and Describing your Research Writing your Psychology Research Paper
Other Online Research Tools:
Electronic Books:
An Easyguide to APA Style, 2012 (downloadable) Casebook for DSM-5: Diagnosis and Treatment Planning, 2017
DSM-5 Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health, 2017
DSM-5 Pocket Guide for Elder Mental Health, 2017
DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation Interview, 2015
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5):
The most comprehensive, current, and critical resource for clinical practice available to today's mental health clinicians and researchers of all orientations. DSM-5 is used by health professionals, social workers, and forensic and legal specialists to diagnose and classify mental disorders, and is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health. The criteria are concise and explicit, intended to facilitate an objective assessment of symptom presentations in a variety of clinical settings - inpatient, outpatient, partial hospital, consultation-liaison, clinical, private-practice, and primary care.
Peer-reviewed Journal article resources:
APA Psych Articles from the American Psychological Association (APA is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from multiple journals spanning from 1894 to the present.
Elsevier's Science Direct offers a large collection of Social Sciences and Humanities journals and books, highlighting historical context, current developments, theories, applications, trends and more.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
Psychology & Counseling - Sage Journals
Sage Psychology and Counseling offers innovative resource spanning the breadth of Psychology and Counseling sub-disciplines including Developmental, Child and Family, Clinical, Social, Cognitive, Counseling and much more.
Today's research, tomorrow's innovation.
JSTOR's psychology and other social and behavioral science journals include thousands of articles, books, and research reports.
This multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
APA Style Guide websites:
- Purdue OWL - APA Formatting and Style Guide 7th Edition
- APA Style - from the American Psychological Association
- Use the CITE button in the databases you use to access your research materials! Then copy and paste the citation, clean it up and go!
- Use a citation builder: NCSU Citation Builder, KnightCite
- Visit the Library! We have multiple copies of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for you to check out.
- Talk to a writing Tutor in the The Learning Lab
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Acceptable A.I. Use
Acceptable A.I. Use in your courses
What does it mean?
There are many types of Artificial Intelligence tools that may help you in your studies. Tools such as those that help with spelling, anticipate the end of a sentence, suggest grammatical changes, or provide citations are some. Generative A.I. is different. Generative A.I. can generate high quality text, images, and other content based on the data it is trained on.
Always ask your professor if you have questions about permissions to use A.I.
Generative A.I. Tools
Generative A.I. tools are regulated by Chadron State College through the Academic Honesty Policy. This policy states that the use of A.I. platforms or content is specified individually by each course. The A.I. parameters for use of artificial intelligence tools is given in each course syllabus. The types of parameters include, and are described fully in the syllabus:
- Unrestricted Use - the use of generative A.I. tools is neither encouraged nor prohibited on assignments.
- Use Allowed Under Specific Circumstances - students are allowed to use generative A.I. tools in this course under some circumstances specified in the assignment.
- Use Prohibited Entirely - the use of generative A.I. tools is expressly prohibited.
Use of generative A.I. tools against specified parameters may constitute a violation of the Academic Honesty Policy. Use the following chart to evaluate potential use of generative A.I. Tools:
