*Marriage and Family Therapy: Finding Research Materials

This guide is meant to give an overview of materials and resources available at USC Libraries for researchers in Rossier's Master of Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT) program.

3 things to remember!

When using article databases, remember there are always three stages in your workflow:

1) Discovery: Do (and redo!) your searching, using varying terms and combining using the Boolean operators "and, or, not" to get good results. Your first search is not your best search, but rather an opportunity to learn how to immediately do a better search.

2) Delivery: For items that you like, select the link to the full-text if available, or click on the Find it @ USC button displayed when article available through USC subscriptionbutton to see if we own the item. If you want to keep this item, either save it to your own computer, email it to yourself, or print it.

3) Organize it: Keep the "meta-information" about all that good resources you found for your records and to make your bibliographies. You will find yourself returning to resources so having a system in place will save you time and aggravation later. USC Libraries has a subscription to the citation manager, RefWorks, that will help you organize your the information you're collecting. Mendeley is also a good, free citation  manager.

Article databases

The article databases listed below allow you to search for articles through multiple journals simultaneously. Click on the name of the database below to start searching. If you're off-campus, you'll be asked to log-in using your USC ID and password.

Source

Content in this guide has been adapted with permission from Scott Collard's NYU Libraries Education guide.