ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


510 /C& RL News

Internet resources for 
psychology
By Paul Fehrm ann

Learn how to take advantage o f 
the options offered by Internet

U sers learn on a daily basis that the dyna­
mism of the Internet can challenge efforts 

to find information, even as it provides expand­
ing fruitful options. As noted in the April 1993 
issue of C&RL News, however, working lists of 
resources related to particular subject areas have 
b e e n  view ed as potentially helpful for those 
using the Internet. The list below  aims to give 
a beginning set of sources that can be used by 
researchers and students in psychology.

If readers are aware of other G opher (WAIS 
or W orld Wide W eb) resources for psychol­
ogy, please contact me at PFEHRMAN@KENT 
VM.KENT.EDU.

A standard procedure for subscribing to both 
electronic journals and to electronic conferences 
(lists) is given below. These steps w ork for all 
conferences and journals noted here. Subscrip­
tion procedures may vary, however, and direc­
tories can help (e.g., The Directory o f  Electronic 
Journals, Newsletters a n d  A cadem ic Discussion 
Lists, published by the Association of Research 
Libraries, 1993; or, for an electronic version of 
that directory containing psychology confer­
ences, ftp to KSUVXA.KENT.EDU, and get the 
file ACADLIST.FILE4 in the LIBRARY directory).

Users w h o  have G opher (and TCP/IP) soft­
w are running on their personal com puters (or 
local m ainframes) can type in the addresses 
given below  in order to “G opher to ” listed re­
sources. The G opher software has been  freely 
available; but alternate (though limited) access 
to G opher resources has also been  available 
by telnetting to “public” sites (preferably at night 
o r  e a r l y  m o r n in g ) ; t e l n e t  to  CONSUL 
TANT.MICRO.UMN.EDU, or telnet to UX1.C

SO.UIUC.EDU (login at both sites as gopher). 
Accessing Gopher resources listed below  at such 
“public” sites might involve “brow sing” to con­
nect to them (e.g., use public G opher to find 
s o f t w a r e  r e v ie w s  b y  f in d in g  SUNY at 
Plattsburgh directory under New York under 
USA under North America in the list of all Go­
phers, and then choose SUNY Plattsburgh In­
form ation and finally COMPSYCH). Addition­
ally, Veronica, the index to G opher which has 
b e e n  under “Other G opher . . . Servers” at p u b ­
lic sites has been useful for boolean keyword 
searches of and connection to G opher’s m enu 
resources (again, use of this resource during 
“off ho u rs” can be m ore productive).

OPACs
Internet OPACs for areas in psychology might 
b e  identified using publications such as APA ’s 
Guide to Graduate Study in Psychology or the 
list o f APA programs found each year in the 
A m erican Psychologist. OPAC access informa­
tion is on most G ophers (e.g., G opher to Yale’s 
at YALEINFO.YALE.EDU 7000 for keyw ord 
searches using the “search libraries.CA” choice; 
or telnet to ACCESS.USASK.CA and login as 
HYTELNET for HYTELNET. Two other OPACs 
are those of the Library of Congress (telnet to 
LOCIS.LOC.GOV) and the National Library of 
M edicine (telnet to LOCATOR.NLM.NIH.GOV; 
login as LOCATOR). The Library of Congress 
is also making resources available via the Go­
pher; G opher to MARVEL.LOC.GOV 70.

Electronic serials
The three journals below  are p eer reviewed. 
To subscribe to Psycoloquy, as an example: 1) 
a d d r e s s  e -m a il to  th is  a d d r e s s , 
LISTSERV@PUCC.BITNET; 2) leave the name 
and e-mail subject fields blank; 3) send this 
m essage SUBSCRIBE PSYC Paul Fehrmann

P a u l Fehrm ann is a librarian at Kent State University Libraries, Ohio; e-mail: pfehrman@kentvm.kent.edu

VM.KENT.EDU
KSUVXA.KENT.EDU
TANT.MICRO.UMN.EDU
SO.UIUC.EDU
YALEINFO.YALE.EDU
LOCIS.LOC.GOV
LOCATOR.NLM.NIH.GOV
MARVEL.LOC.GOV
mailto:pfehrman@kentvm.kent.edu


October 1993/511

•  Psyc@PUCC (Psycoloquy; all areas of Psy­
chology)

•  Psygrd-J@UOTTAWA (Psycgrad; Psychol­
ogy Graduate Student Articles)

•  Psyche-L@NKI (Psyche; Consciousness)
•  To brow se archives of Internet serials, 

G opher to GOPHER CIC.NET 70; choose Elec­
tronic Serials, and then the alphabetical listing, 
and under “p ” you can browse or retrieve is­
sues of Psycoloquy or Psycgrad from this site.

Electronic conferences (Listserv lists)
Conferences listed below  are a sampling of the 
over 20 in psychology which are currently ac­
tive. To subscribe to the electronic conferences 
listed below, follow the sample shown above 
for subscribing to electronic journals.

•  AUnSM@SJUVM (Developmental Disabilities)
•  BEHAVIOR@ASUACAD (Behavior Disor­

ders in Children/Youth)
•  ADDICT-L@KENTVM (Addictions other 

than Alcohol/Drugs)
•  MPSYCH-L@BROWNVM (M athematical 

Psychology)
•  DIV28@GWUVM (APA’s Div 28; Psychop­

harmacology)

Grants and funding in psychology
•  Abstracts of NSF Grant Awards in psychol­

ogy (from 1990): G opher to STIS.NSF.GOV 70; 
do a keyw ord search on psychology after 
choosing the Index to NSF Award Abstracts.

•  Announcements of Grants/Funding in psy­
chology: Subscribe to APASD-L; subscription 
address is LISTSERV® VTVM2.

•  Also: Telnet to INFO.ACS.UNC.EDU (login 
INFO), choose Research, and then search key­
word “psychology” in Grants and Funding Index.

S o ftw a re an d  com puter use for 
psychology research
The first two of these items have brow seable/ 
retrievable archives; and MacPsych is keyword 
searchable as well.

•  Reviews of Psychology Software: G opher 
to BARYON.HAWK.PLATTSBURGH.EDU 70; 
choose SUNY Plattsburgh Information and then 
COMPSYCH.

•  Psychology Research with the Macintosh: 
G opher to GOPHER.STOLAF.EDU 70; under 
Network Resources, then St. Olaf Mailing Lists.

•  Discussion of Experiment Generator Pack­
ages: Subscribe to PSYCH-EXPTS; send e-mail 
to MAILBASE@MAILBASE.AC.UK; message = 
join psych-expts yourFirstname yourLastname

Datafiles
•  For ICPSR Datafiles/Information: Gopher 

to DATALIB.LIBRARY.UALBERTA.CA 70.
•  For Social Science Data/Archive Informa­

tion: Telnet to HAR1.HUJI.AC.IL, login as SSDA, 
choose Online Aleph and then Social Science 
Data Archive; for Institute for Research in So­
cial Sciences Information: Telnet to info.acs.unc 
.edu, login as INFO; look in Research selection.

•  For electronic conference discussion of so­
cial science data: Subscribe to SOS-DATA us­
ing steps listed above with e-mail to LISTSERV 
@UNCVM1.

•  For Psycoloquy Article (with responses) 
proposing archiving and access on the Internet 
of data gathered in psychology research: Go­
pher to GOPHER.CIC.NET 70; find Psycoloquy 
under P in alphabetical list under Electronic 
S e ria ls, a n d  fin d  ite m s  PSY C .92.3-29, 
PSYC.92.3.55, PSYC.92.3-56, PSYC.92.3-57, the 
articles by Skoyles, G raham , G elobter and 
Jennings). ■

(Marketing the library con ’tfrom  page 504)

a part of the computerized education process.
We will hold another Library Media Fair as 

soon as w e can allocate enough librarian time 
to organize and staff it. The only trouble is, just 
as w e ’ve been flooded with users anxious to 
learn how  to dial in and search, w e ’ve had 
m assive retirem ents and a freeze has been  
placed on vacant positions. The squeeze be­
tw een increased user needs and decreased 
personnel is on.

W h a t next?
So our next step will be to maximize librarian 
time and effort—w e ’re concentrating on  our 
publications’ program and investing in more 
sophisticated desktop publishing equipm ent. 
O ur reasoning is that if w e take the time to 
produce an eye-catching guide once, it will be 
used hundreds of times (and will be available 
even w hen a librarian isn’t).

That single media fair made so many users 
aware of our services that w e ’re still following 
up with passw ords and answering incoming 
phone calls nearly a year later. As a means of 
marketing the library in its most positive light, 
w e highly recom mend the fair format. ■

CIC.NET
STIS.NSF.GOV
INFO.ACS.UNC.EDU
BARYON.HAWK.PLATTSBURGH.EDU
gopher://GOPHER.STOLAF.EDU
mailto:MAILBASE@MAILBASE.AC.UK
HAR1.HUJI.AC.IL
gopher://GOPHER.CIC.NET