When you have LibKey Nomad browser extension installed, you will see the following image show up on some websites where LibKey Nomad is searching Gould Library's collections for access to the articles:

When searching in Google Scholar, PubMed, Wikipedia, or other online sources, you may see the following icons show up alongside the article references. This is what they mean:

 will bring you directly to the article online

 will provide the pdf to the article

will send you back to Catalyst, to check if it is available in either print format or another electronic database. If it is not available, you can easily request it via ILL.

Google Scholar is a fantastic resource to have in your toolkit. It is not the end all be all of databases, and has many deficits when compared to a library database. However, Google Scholar is great at providing available access points to resources. 

How to:

1. Search a known article by the title, or other characteristic that will summon the work.

2. The links at right of the screen will be access points for the work. If a PDF is available on the web, it will be the first link you'll see. Click on the PDF link to get immediate access to the work. 

• Sometimes this link is not access to the article, and will only provide the publisher link to pay the publisher for access. 
• Please never pay for an article during your time at Carleton. Always seek access through the library! 

3. The Carleton Full Text button will guide you to the resource in Catalyst, if available.

4. If the article is unavailable in Catalyst, you'll be directed to fill out an Interlibrary Loan request. The nice thing about filling out the request from a Catalyst record (which you can access from Google Scholar) is that you will not need to fill in any of the citation information. The title and other relevant details will be imported into the Interlibrary Loan form when you click request through Catalyst. 

HINT: If you haven't set up an account yet, make sure to set one up and then go back to the Catalyst page and initiate the Interlibrary Loan request again.

Many psychology topics are interdisciplinary in nature, so you may need to find literature from other fields.  Below are some of the more frequently used databases in some other fields. 

Here are a few databases to get you started, but be sure to look at the subject guides for more information and suggestions on ways to search in that subject.

You may run in to references to doctoral theses in PsycINFO.  Dissertations are not peer-reviewed, and so should not be afforded the same weight as peer-reviewed articles.  However, the literature searches in some theses can be gold mines in providing background information and pointers to other articles on that same topic.