CHF 423
Professional Seminar in Individual and Family Studies
Course Guide
Spring 2008

• Family and Society Studies Worldwide and PsycINFO default  to phrase searching. This means that terms that you do not want searched as a phrase should be put in separate search boxes or separated with AND between search terms.
• Education Full Text and Sociological Abstracts default  to AND between search terms. This means if you want to phrase search you need to put "" around your phrase.
• You can truncate words in all of the above databases by using an *.  Truncation means that if you type child* you will get both child and children

• Adolescence - indexed in Family and Society Studies Worldwide and PsycINFO; Fogler has paper from 1966, electronic from March 1990
• Behavior Modification - indexed in PsycINFO and Education Abstracts; paper from 1984-2005, electronic from 1999
• Behaviour Research and Therapy - indexed in PsycINFO and Sociological Abstracts; paper from 1963, electronic from 1995
• Child Development - indexed in Family and Society Studies Worldwide and PsycINFO; paper from 1930, electronic from 1930
• Education and Treatment of Children - indexed in Education Full Text and PsycINFO; paper from 1983, electronic from 1990
• Family Relations - indexed in Family and Society Studies Worldwide, PsycINFO, and Sociological Abstracts; paper from 1980, electronic 1980 -2000, and 2005 to present
• Journal of American College Health - indexed in PsycINFO ; paper from 1984, electronic from 1994
• Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis - indexed in PsycINFO; paper and electronic from 1968
• Journal of Marriage and Family - indexed in Family and Society Studies Worldwide, PsycINFO and Sociological Abstracts; paper from 1976, electronic from 1964-2000, and 2005 to present
• Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality/International Journal of Sexual Health - indexed in EBSCOhost; paper and electronic from 2003
• Journal of Sex Research - indexed in PsycINFO, and Sociological Abstracts; paper from 1990, electronic from 1965
• Personal Relationships - indexed in Sociological Abstracts; paper from March 2004, electronic from 2002

• Your UMaine card is your library card.
• You can renew your books online by clicking on the link for User Services.
• If someone requests the book then you will be asked to return the book sooner.
• If a book is already checked out from Fogler, you can place a request on the book at the circulation desk.
• If the book is held by the University of Maine System at a different campus, you can use the request button at the top of the page to have the book sent to Fogler. You will need to type in the 14 digit number on the back of your UMaine card. You will be notified when the book arrives.

• Books and journal articles that are not owned by the Raymond H. Fogler library may be borrowed from other libraries.
• Follow the link to fill out the  form Interlibrary Loan.

• You can connect to the databases remotely
• You will need to use the 14 digit number on the back of your UMaine card.
• You will also need to make sure that your library account has been activated. If you have checked out a book, this was done automatically. If you have not checked out books  you can have your UMaine activated at one of the circulation desks.
• Once circulation has scanned in your account number you will be able to access the databases remotely in 2-3 days.

• Your UMaine card is used for printing articles from the databases.
• Every semester $16 is placed in your account for printing.
• Printing on the library printers is $.04 a page.

• The journals are shelved in alphabetic order unless otherwise noted in URSUS.
• The stairs to the journals are located in the older part of the library.  You can only get to Floors 1b and 2b through these stairs.
• Floor 1 contains  A -- Chemical Society Journal
• Floor 1b contains  Chemical Society Proceedings -- Journal of Reprints for Anti-Trust Law and Economics
• Floor 2 contains  Journal of Reproduction and Fertility -- Physical Review
• Floor 2b contains  Physical Review A -- Zygon

• Your UMaine card is used for photocopying journal articles.
• The $16 that is added to your account every semester for printing cannot be used for photocopying
• You can add money to your Campus Fund at the VTS machines. There is a machine in the circulation area and another in the Memorial Union next to the ATM machine.
• You can also add money at the UMaine card office.