Thursday, April 19, 2007

How to Access Library’s Databases?

On Campus
 Enter web address: http://www.lib.subr.edu
 Click on Electronic Library
 Click on Databases
 Click on All Databases
 Scroll down to the database you want

Off Campus
 Enter web address: http://www.lib.subr.edu
 Click on Electronic Library
 Click on Databases
 Click on All Databases
 Scroll down to the database you want
 Click on Off Campus
 The pop-up page will prompt you for your User ID and Password
 Enter User ID: 9 digit ss#
 Enter Password: changeme
 Change from Baton Rouge Community College to SUBR
 Click on Authenticate

Note: Before you will try to access library’s databases from off campus site make sure that John B. Cade Library’s Circulation Desk has your user information in their system. You can update your user information by stopping by the circulation desk. You will have to do that in person!

Additionally, make sure that you disable pop-up blocker on your browser.

However, if you still will experience problems accessing databases after updating your user information, please, call Reference Department at 771-2875 or Systems and Technology Office at 771-4934.
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

7 Best Databases for Research in Psychology


1. PsycINFO provides indexing coverage of all document types, including journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports. The database is international in scope, covering the academic, research, and practice literature in psychology as well as relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior.


2. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection indexes articles on a wide variety of topics in psychology, including therapy and treatments, abnormal psychology, psychiatry, child and adolescent psychology and more. This database indexes nearly 500 scholarly journals and magazines and provides some full text for all of them.


3. Academic Search Premier* is a multidisciplinary database that indexes articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. This database contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.


4. Business Source Complete* is scholarly business database, provides comprehensive coverage of scholarly, peer-reviewed business journals dating back to 1886, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more.


5. Business Source Premier* is comprehensive, peer-reviewed, scholarly research database, providing full-text, indexing and abstracts in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, as well as country economic reports and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.


6. JSTOR* is a trusted archive of important scholarly journals. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines. JSTOR maintains both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections such as Arts and Sciences, Business, Ecology and Botany, General Science, Language and Literature, Mathematics and Statistics, and Music.


7.SocINDEX with Full Text* is the world’s most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database, extensive in scope and content providing comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study, including abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.


Note*: Although these databases are not dedicated entirely to psychology and psychology related fields, Academic Search Premier, Business Source Complete, Business Source Premier, JSTOR, and SocINDEX with Full Text provide access to extensive, peer-previewed psychology journal collections. (Ex.: Work & Stress, Thinking & Reasoning, Systems Research & Behavioral Sciences, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Psychology Today, Psychological Science, Psychological Research, Psychological Record, Psychological Injury, Political Psychology, Personnel Psychology, etc.)

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Monday, March 19, 2007

Faculty Lead Students 3-1 in Annual Battle on the Bluffs Basketball Series




On Thursday, March 15, 2007, the faculty beat the students in the 4th Annual Faculty-Student Basketball Game; a fundraiser for Psi Chi Honor Society. The faculty jumped out to an early 12-6 lead, but a 20-4 run by the students had the faculty gasping for breath. Trailing by as many as ten points, the faculty clawed their way back into the game and tied the score at 38-38 with about a minute left to play. A last second alley oop pass and dunk shot cemented the faculty victory at 40-38. The faculty won this annual classic the first two years (2004 and 2005), and the students won in 2006.Playing for the faculty from the Psychology Department were Drs. Reginald Rackley, Richard Flicker, Rahsheda Perine and Billy Sibley. The faculty cheerleading squad included Psychology Department Chair Dr. Murelle Harrison.

Said one spectator wishing to remain anonymous, "Dem old professors really got game!" Another unidentified spectator was overheard on her cell phone calling 9-1-1 ... "send paramedics, send ambulances, the professors are beating up on the students so bad that there's more red [blood] on the basketball court than [ink] on our research papers." And finally, the faculty cheerleaders taunted the students with cheers like "Our pom poms may be really sagging, but you're the ones whose tails are dragging." Bottom line, a good time was had by all. And the students received a grade of "A" (for effort).

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Monday, March 12, 2007

Richard M. Flicker, Ph.D. Bio


Richard M. Flicker, Ph.D.
flicker@premier.net
307 Blanks Hall
(225) 771-2990 (Phone)
(225) 771-2082 (FAX)

Education: B.S. The City College of New York; M.S. and Ph.D. Purdue UniversityDr.


Richard M. Flicker is a licensed Industrial/Organizational Psychologist. He has been on the faculty at Southern University since 2001 and primarily teaches the Psychological Research and Experimental Psychology courses. He also has taught the Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Interpersonal Communications courses. Dr. Flicker is a past president of the Baton Rouge Area Society of Psychologists, past president of the Exchange Club of Baton Rouge, past Vice President and Treasurer of the Baton Rouge Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development, and is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. President of Flicker & Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm in Baton Rouge since 1993 (formerly in Shreveport, Louisiana), Dr. Flicker has over thirty years of consulting experience in the private and public sectors in such areas as: employee appraisal systems, employee selection and test validation, salary and wage analysis, productivity improvement, team building, and conflict resolution. He also has extensive experience conducting numerous seminars/workshops on leadership/supervision/management development, team building, conflict/stress management, customer service, and ethics. Dr. Flicker has qualified/served as an expert witness in federal and district courts in numerous cases involving employment discrimination and aptitude/employability evaluations.

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Monday, March 5, 2007

Murelle G. Harrison, Ph.D. Bio


Murelle G. Harrison, Ph.D.
Murelle_harrison@subr.edu
317 Blanks Hall
(225) 771-2990 (Phone)
(225) 771-2082 (FAX)

Education: B.S. Southern University, M.A. Michigan State University, Ph.D. LSU


Dr. Harrison is a licensed Industrial/Organizational Psychologist and usually teaching the course in I/O in the Fall semester and Interpersonal Communication in the Spring semester. Dr. Harrison’s research interest for the past 25 years has been substance abuse prevention. Dr. Harrison has been funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The field of prevention is evolving into a profession and Dr. Harrison teaches a Prevention Specialist course online during the Fall semester. Due to the relationship between HIV/AIDS and substance use, Dr. Harrison’s research interest has extended to include HIV/AIDS. She has served as the co-principal investigator along with Dr. Duncan on a project for the second year that focuses HIV/AIDS Awareness and Testing. Dr. Harrison received supplemental funding from NIDA to collect epidemiological data from families in South Africa that has resulted in a mission project. She travels to the rural Limpopo Province annually to provide technical and humanitarian support for Kokona Dikgale Primary School. Due to her interest in HIV/AIDS, Dr. Harrison has also mentored two students from Brazil and, in turn, had a psychology student to study in Brazil in summer 2006. The Brazilian project is a collaboration between three universities in Brazil and three in the United States (LSU, Southern University, and the University of Minnesota).

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Sunday, March 4, 2007

Career Day for Psychology Majors


Career Day was established to provide students with insight into various positions offered to psychology majors and graduates.

Government agencies, businesses and non-profit organizations which regularly hire psychology majors are given an opportunity to set up booths to market their services and recruit our students. So too are representatives from colleges and universities offering relevant graduate programs for students interested in pursuing advanced degrees in the field. And past graduates also attend to share their experiences and advise students.

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Psi Chi Honor Society


A national honor society for psychology majors established on Southern University and A & M campus. The purpose of Psi Chi is to provide psychology students who have maintained a minimum grade point average of 3.0 with an environment that will encourage, stimulate, and maintain excellence in scholarship relative to the field of psychology.

Advisor: Dr. Reginald Rackley

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Psychology Club

The Psychology Club was founded by students and faculty to further the study of psychology beyond classroom instruction: to regard psychology as an integral part of their academic life, and to form a base from which each student can associate with those persons who are dedicated to the learning of psychology. Educational guidance is offered in areas such as tutoring in psychology courses, GRE preparatory courses, and review for the Department of Psychology Comprehensives, and career/professional development. We also are a social group and plan many of the Department’s events such as the Senior Rose Reception, a semester event honoring the Psychology Department’s graduating seniors.


Advisors: Dr. Rahsheda D. Perine & Dr. Billy T. Sibley

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Welcome to the Department of Psychology Blog!



Welcome to the Department of Psychology, the home of approximately 300 majors and thousands of alumni from our inception in the late 1950's. The Department of Psychology has a rich history dating to Dr. Goins, the first chair and followed by Dr. E.E. Johnson, Dr. C Waddell, Dr. A.B. Johnson, Dr. Cecil Duncan, Dr. Ross Evans, and currently, Dr. Murelle G. Harrison. Psychology was recognized as a science on our campus under the leadership of Dr. E.E. Johnson who was instrumental in securing space for experimental and physiological laboratories, equipment, and funds for student development. In the Consent Decree agreement of the early 1980s, Dr. A. B. Johnson added an undergraduate and graduate degree programs in rehabilitation. We became the Department of Psychology and Rehabilitation Counseling Programs with 17 faculty members and almost 500 students. These programs remained a part of the Department until Fall 2003. The faculty’s diversity in psychological training, schools they attended, and research interests attests to the comprehensiveness of our academic program.

Cognizant of employment challenges for bachelor level psychology graduates and that many graduates are not interested in advanced degrees, the Department developed a substance abuse option that does not require any additional credits for graduation. The substance abuse counseling certification board mandates 30 credits in human services courses with 12 credits being substance abuse. Our majors can take these 12 credits as part of the 15 credits required for psychology majors. Furthermore, we have developed working relationships with local substance abuse clinics that offer our students opportunities to begin fulfilling the 4,000 clinic hours required by the certification board and can simultaneously receive Field Experience credit.

We are a “customer friendly” department; recognizing that our “raison d’etre” or “reason for being” is to meet the needs of our students. An advisor is immediately identified for each student who transfers to the Department. A plan for graduation is written and maintained in the advisor’s office. Majors are encouraged to meet regularly with advisors. Departmental convocations are held in the Fall and Spring semesters to keep majors abreast of graduation requirements, available supplemental activities, and important dates for University deadlines as well as departmental services. Students are strongly encouraged to become involved in the Psychology Club, Psi Chi, Self Help/Self Care, research activities, and other activities pertinent to their life goals. Emails are intermittently sent to majors to remind them of upcoming events. A “Senior Rose” reception is held in the fall and spring semesters to recognize all graduating seniors. Career Day is held annually each spring to provide networking opportunities for Field Experience, employment, summer research programs, and graduate school. Our 16-unit computer laboratory is available daily for students’ use. The aim is to give students the foundation that will form the trajectory of their lives.

We invite you to peruse our blog and become better acquainted with us. For more information, please feel free to contact me at murelle_harrison@cxs.subr.edu.

Murelle G. Harrison

Chair of Department of Psychology
murelle_harrison@cxs.subr.edu

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