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Print Resources - Psychology
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Print Resources – Psychology

Bruno, F. J. (1986). Dictionary of key words in psychology . London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul.

This text proved to be an excellent complement to the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms (2005). It was particularly beneficial in that it provided natural language selections more often used in popular literature and conversation, thereby rounding out our selection of controlled vocabulary terms. This dictionary also helped us define and make connections between terms as we were establishing our indexing language.

Gallagher, L. A., & American Psychological Association. (2005). Thesaurus of psychological index terms (10th ed.). Washington , DC : American Psychological Association.

This resource played a major role in the development of our indexing language. Containing the controlled vocabulary used by PsycINFO in creating records for their databases, it helped in establishing preferred and other terms for our own thesaurus. The thesaurus entry “emotional states” is directly applicable to the domain of the HET and served as a model for its structure. The term clusters section, which organizes terms into comprehensive lists was particularly useful in helping us to conceptualize the task at hand. The text was very useful in grouping terms in hierarchies and associative relationships.

Levinson, D., Ponzetti, J. J., & Jorgensen, P. F. (1999). Encyclopedia of human emotions . New York : Macmillan Reference USA .

This unique encyclopedia is an overview text written with general readers in mind. As such, it served as a good starting point to familiarize ourselves with the domain of human emotion before we set about making decisions on our controlled and natural language selections. The text was highly applicable in that it brings together information from the behavioural, social, biological, medical and physical sciences and covers conceptual, thematic and theoretical issues.

Lewis, M., & Haviland-Jones, J. M. (2000). Handbook of emotions (2nd ed.). New York : Guilford Press.

This book, geared towards students, researchers and clinicians, is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation into the domain of human emotion. It was another comprehensive overview text that provided an excellent theoretical framework, which assisted us in establishing the indexing language for our thesaurus.

Petrovsky, A. V., & Yaroshevsky, M. G. (Eds.). (1985). A concise psychological dictionary . Moscow : Progress.

The Concise Psychological Dictionary is a comprehensive collection of psychological terms with associated definitions, presented from a Marxist theoretical standpoint. It was an excellent source that was primarily used as a reference for scope notes for entry terms in our thesaurus.

Sutherland, N. S. (1996). The international dictionary of psychology (2nd ed.). New York: Crossroad.

This text provides short explanations of terms found in the psychological literature, including those of an interdisciplinary nature. The cross-referenced explanation of terms, which sometimes include examples, allowed us to conceptualize and establish appropriate relationships between terms as we were deciding on our indexing language.

Zuckerman, E. L. (2000). Clinician's thesaurus: The guidebook for writing psychological reports (5th ed.). New York : Guilford Press.

This clinical resource, which provides concise definitions of technical terms appearing in the literature of psychology was useful as a general resource, providing theoretical framework, as well as some of the more specific, clinical language, some of which became descriptors in our thesaurus, in order to meet the needs of diverse user groups.

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Print Resources – Thesaurus

Aitchison, J., Gilchrist, A., & Bawden, D. (2000). Thesaurus construction and use: A practical manual (4th ed.). London : Aslib IMI.

This manual is a comprehensive introductory text that follows the US Standard (ANSI/NISO) as well as the International and British Standards. In addition to having immense value with respect to interpretation of the standard(s), this manual also provided practical information on planning and design of thesauri, vocabulary control, structural analysis and relationships, thesaurus displays and thesaurus management. This text was specifically referenced in writing the structural analysis portion of our thesaurus.

American National Standards Institute. Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Thesauri; Z39.19 – 2003 (Revision of Z39.19 – 1980) . Bethesda : NISO Press, 2003.

This was the cornerstone document on which our thesaurus was planned and designed. The ANSI/NISO guidelines provided practical strategies for all phases of the construction of our thesaurus. This national standard was particularly useful as a reference on formulating descriptors and establishing relationships between terms. The thesaurus displays section proved to be a significant ready reference source, presenting display information both theoretically and practically with the use of detailed figures. This text was specifically referenced in writing the structural analysis portion of our thesaurus. [ download ANSI/NISO Guidelines]

Soergel, Dagobert. Indexing Languages and Thesauri: Construction and Maintenance .
Wiley-Becker & Hayes Series Book. Los Angeles , CA : Melville Publishing, 1974.

Although this text is now somewhat dated, it nonetheless proved to be an exceptional resource. It provided a particularly good conceptual foundation from which to start the planning and design of our thesaurus.

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Answers.com. Retrieved February 26, 2005 , from Answers.com website: http://www.answers.com/loneliness

This online resource was used exclusively as a reference for scope notes for entry terms.

AOD thesaurus. Retrieved February 26, 2005 , from National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism website: http://etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/AODVol1/aodhqf.htm#FP14

This work was another excellent complement to the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms (2005). It was specifically used as a second draft resource to broaden the scope of our indexing language and establish some more narrower/broader terms (i.e. add further levels of hierarchy).

Thesaurus. Social Sciences Index. Retrieved March 2, 2005, from Wilson Web database (Social Sciences Full Text) on the World Wide Web: http://vweb.hwwilsonweb.com/

The Thesaurus for the Social Sciences Index of the Wilson Web database was consulted for keyword descriptors reflecting current use language. This database was used as a second draft resource to broaden the scope of our thesaurus terminology.

Xreferplus online reference library. Retrieved February 11, 2005 , from Xreferplus website: www.xreferplus.com

This online resource was used exclusively as a reference for scope notes for entry terms.

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