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PSY 160: Cultural Psychology: Ulrichsweb: scholarly, peer-reviewed confirmation

The goal of this course is to provide a cross-cultural review of general principles of human psychology. Emphasis is on the organizing syndromes of particular cultures and how these world-views affect an individual's emotions, cognitions, and behaviors

UlrichsWeb

One challenge is that you cannot always tell by looking at the periodical's cover or the article itself  to know whether it is a journal or a magazine.  (Newspapers are easy to identify as newspapers however!)

Another challenge is that not all journals have the word “Journal” in their titles.  For example, Ladies Home Journal is a magazine despite having the word “Journal” in its title.  Science is a journal despite not having "Journal" in the title.

Fortunately, there is a tool that can help with that determination:  UlrichsWeb. 

UlrichsWeb is an online database that contains the detailed information of over 300,000 periodicals.  A key feature is to inform you whether the periodical is a magazine, a newspaper, or an academic/scholarly journal. And then whether the academic/scholarly journal is peer-reviewed. 

UlrichsWeb uses “refereed” instead of “peer-reviewed”.

UlrichsWeb access

  1. http://www.lib.pacificu.edu/
  2. Click DATABASES (image)
  3. Click on U
  4. Click UlrichsWeb (Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory)
    1. If you are off-campus, you will be prompted to enter your PUNetID and password
  5. Enter the periodical name into the search box (for example, Psychological Reports)
  6. Click on the green magnifying glass to see the results
  7. Click the title link for either the print format or the online format
  8. The football jersey indicates the journal is peer-reviewed.

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