Information for Users of the Psychology Library (as of September 2013)

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1 Information for Users of the Psychology Library (as of September 2013) Department 7 - Psychology and Sport & Exercise Sciences Psychology Library Fliednerstr Münster Tel psy-bib@uni-muenster.de Opening hours: Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

2 Fachbereich 07 Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft Structure The University s Psychology Library is organized into several areas: 1) Psychological monographs, including the latest acquisitions, can be found on level 1 (see site plan on the last page of this leaflet). 2) The students library offers the option to borrow selected books for a period of four weeks (only valid for students of psychology in Münster). The titles are marked ST (see site plan). 3) Print Journals marked Z that are older than the current year can be found on level 3. Issues from the current year are located in the journal display cabinets on level 1. 4) Course reading collections or Handapparate for courses of our lecturers are sorted by the lecturers names. 5) The Testothek houses a collection of psychological testing procedures. These are stored in a separate room. 6) Diploma theses from our students of psychology, marked VP can be found on level 3. Older thesis papers (before 2002) are stored in the room next to the copy machines. 7) Master theses from our students of psychology, beginning with publication year 2012, marked VR are located on level 3. Literature search in the faculty library of psychology For quick information concerning book titles and location of books you can use the three terminals near the library s entrance where you can search the database of the Münster University Library (ULB-Katalog) or HBZ-Katalog for all university libraries in North Rhine Westphalia. Another six computers for detailed and in-depth research of data bases can be found on level 1. Münster University offers all of its members the opportunity to conduct online research (data bases, bibliographies, encyclopedias) free of charge. Quite often, your research will end in downloading the full text you were looking for. Due to licensing restrictions, you can only use these facilities within the domain unimuenster.de by entering your personal identifier. Otherwise you will need to install a virtual personal network (VPN) to be able to work from home (for instructions please see the homepage of the Zentrum für Informationsverarbeitung ZIV).

3 Fachbereich 07 Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft Site plan: Bound periodicals level 3 R Diploma theses (VP) Master theses (VR) desks level 2 desks Current print journals level 1 Stock VA VA Y Reference library X, Y AA Terminals for short-term reseach 5 PC workstations Course reading collections and exam literature New acqusitions entrance ST-books 2007 ff. ML Student Library (ST), PC workstation with Diploma theses Photo copier Reference desk

4 Further information on library use Our opening hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. If there are any variations, you will find them on our website (see "Aktuelles" (news)) and postings on our door. We have got two photocopiers with a scanning function in our library. To photocopy you need your MensaCard. One copy costs 3,8 cents, scanning is free of charge. You are not allowed to take bags, coats, jackets, etc. with you to the library. Please use the blue lockers located in the corridor in front of the library. You will have to insert 1 /2 which you will get back afterwards. The library s staff will not let you enter with bags, coats, etc., and because of safety regulations you cannot put your things on the floor near the library entrance (theft, fire hazard, emergency escape route ). For those things you want to take into the library (e. g. laptop, pencils, own books, ) you can use our library baskets. Make sure you talk at a low level. Mobile phones must be soundless. Please don t make phone calls within the library. When leaving the library, please show us all books, folders, ring binders, etc. you want to take out. The internet workplaces in our library are exclusively kept for scientific research. Changes of system configurations, web configurations and software, as well as installation of additional programs, are not allowed. In case you have a question, please don t hesitate to come to the reference desk, you are always welcome! The library-team

5 Catalogues Our book and journal stocks are listed in electronic catalogues. Using the following options, you can look them up: In the open public access catalogue (OPAC) of the university library (ULB-Katalog). This catalogue contains all books, journals, and other media of the central library, branch libraries, and all libraries of university departments. In disco, (see ULB-site) for additionally looking up individual articles in books or journals. In the HBZ-Katalog: for books and journals in Western Germany In our current journal subscriptions list, very often with full text available online (see homepage of psychology library) In the stock of psychological procedures for testing (see previous) Bibliographies and data bases Are you looking for journal articles or books concerning a certain topic? Bibliographies list articles and other sorts of publications in a general context or for a special topic, frequently as an electronic full text. Two important data bases for psychologists are PsycInfo by the American Psychological Association (APA), containing mostly literature in English (journal articles, monographs, book chapters, book reviews, research reports, case studies, etc.) and Psyndex, containing hits for psychological literature and procedures from German speaking countries as well as audiovisual media relevant for psychological research. A list of data bases licensed by the ULB and relevant for psychologists can be found on the start pages of the ULB and the psychology library: DBIS, respectively. Digitale Bibliothek (DigiBib) offers a convenient way for doing research because you can search simultaneously in catalogues of large libraries and international data bases. In particular, DigiBib can be used to place an interlibrary loan demand in the case that the literature you need cannot be found in one of the local university s libraries. Whenever you find the button during your literature research, you can use the Linking-Service SFX. It provides a rapid link from your search results to the document text you need.

6 Further information on literature research in the psychology library Final papers for the degree Bachelor of Science in Psychology at the University of Münster are not stored in our library. You will find them in the secretary s office of the academic advisor who supervised the thesis. A database of these papers is available on the psychology homepage (see Studium, B.Sc. in Psychologie ) Lending options The psychology library is a reference library which means that most books cannot be borrowed. You can read them in the library room at one of the 60 reading places. Exceptions are: Lecturers in psychology at Münster may borrow our books to use them in their offices. Students who want to read one of these books will receive the relevant information at the reference desk. Any customer can take out up to three books for an hour when you provide a security (ID card, etc.) if you want to make copies outside the library. As a student of psychology at the university of Münster you can take up to three books from the reference library as overnight loans, the loan starting at 4 p.m. until the next opening morning at 10 a.m. In addition, the students of psychology may borrow up to five books from the Students Library, marked ST, for four weeks. You will need to fill out a personal charging card. Students of psychology may also borrow our psychological testing procedures for a week from Monday to Friday, 9 to 12 a.m. Students with psychology as a second subject need a written confirmation of one of our psychology lecturers in order to borrow testing procedures.

7 Fachbereich 07 Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft Classification of the shelf marks The books in our library are sorted according to subject groups (= topics). If you do not know the author of a book or its title so that you could look it up in the alphabetical catalogue (OPAC), you should go to the shelf where you can find literature of a particular subject group. This system allows us to replace a catalogue of subject headings. More information about subject groups can be found in the red ring binder near the library s entrance. Each book in our library has its own shelf mark; an example can be found below. If you want to look up a book by its signature, you should start by first looking for the subject group (in this example: HA, which stands for diagnostic psychology, general outlines). Then, you should look for the lower digits, standing for the year of publication. Lastly, you ll look up the upper digits or place number. In our example, you will find the book in subject group HA as the fifth title in the row of titles from HA st category for search (subject group) 3rd category (place number on the shelf) 2 nd category (year) Whenever you take books from the shelves, please put them back in the proper place on the shelf. Please make yourself familiar with our classification system. Somebody else will look unsuccessfully for a book if you did not put it back in the correct place.