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Metanoia Literature searching / finding journal information
Aims & Outcomes
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Planning your searching: keywords and concepts
General principles of searching a database
Introduction to searching different databasesSocial Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) Google ScholarPsycINFO
Where to find referencing information and support resources
Keywords
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Really worth a 5 minute brainstorm before you search - will save you time later - I promise!
Searching one word for your concept will not bring you all the results! And sometimes none! Not everyone uses the same terminology for one idea
The library worksheet helps you organise your search & how to combine the terms with ‘AND’ or ‘OR’)
Examples follow
Planning your search - keywords
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Boring but WORTH IT!
1. Pick out your concepts and separate them drugs, addiction, therapy, offenders, etc
2. Think of other words that are similar to your key words but represent the same conceptsIllegal drugs, Counselling, criminals,
programmes (programs)
Planning your search - keywords
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3. BE PREPAREDThink of narrower words that fit into your terms and wider concepts that your terms fit into.You will often need to:
A. widen your search by using larger terms or concepts to produce more results
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B. OR narrow your search if you produce too many results, by using narrower terms that fit into your concept
NOTE: if you narrow or widen ALL your concepts you will make your life too hard – choose one or two
crime
• Criminal*• Offender*• Convict*• “Criminal population”• Inmate*• “Criminal justice system”
Drug addiction
• “Substance abuse”• “Illicit drugs”• “Illegal drugs”• “addictive
substances”
therapy• Treatment*• Programme*
OR Program*• Counsel*
What research has been conducted on the use of therapy for offenders who take drugs?
HMP
•“Youth offenders” •“Repeat offenders”•“First time offenders” •“Violent offenders”
• Opiates• “Psychotropic drugs”•“Prescription drugs” • Specific drug names ... Prozac, cannabis, crack cocaine, heroin etc
• “Talk therapy”• “Behavioural therapy” OR CBT OR “Behavioral therapy” • Medicat*• “Family Therapy”• “residential therapy” OR rehab*
Synonyms
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Crime Drug addiction Treatment
Criminal* “Substance abuse” Therapy
Offender* “Illicit drugs” Counsel*
Convict* “Illegal drugs” Program*
“Criminal population”
Inmate*
“Criminal justice system”
Crime Drug addiction Treatment
“Youth offenders” Opiates “Talk therapy”
“Repeat offenders” “Psychotropic drugs” “Behavioural therapy”
“First time offenders” “Prescription drugs” Medicat*
“Violent offenders” Specific drug names ... Prozac cannabis, crack cocaine, heroin etc
“Family therapy”
HMP “residential therapy”
Narrower Terms
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Searching
Google Scholar
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Important – did you know you can set Google Scholar to flag up everything available to you through Middlesex University?
Google Scholar > settings
Personalising Google Scholar ...
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• Click library links on the left hand side
• Search ‘Middlesex university’ and select ‘Middlesex University – Full Text @ Middlesex’
Searching Google Scholar ...
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• Search ‘crime drug addiction treatment’ • What is available through Middlesex is highlighted on the right
Searching Google Scholar ...
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• Is there anything you notice about results?
• Many results are quite old – this may / may not be important depending on your topic
• Mostly journal articles but you still need to look at the source
• There is no definitive list of what GS searches = YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE MISSING OUT
• If full text not in Scholar, click on ‘Cite’ and copy and paste the full citation into Google – you may find it there especially if it’s a report
TIPS! Get better results & find things quicker
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Watch out for spellings US/UK = behavior / behaviour Counselor / counselling
Truncate your term using * Offend* will find offending, offender, offenders Counsel* will find counselling, counsellor, counsellors
Keep phrases together with speech marks “substance abuse”
Most important things to remember!
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Literature searching is a cycle: repeat, improve = improved results. You need to react to your results and play around with different combinations of your keywords (why it’s good to have them ready).
Don’t forget! Citation – you follow leads from useful articles, books
and reading listsExpanding your keyword base as you go along – keep
an eye out for alternative keywords in your search results – so you can rerun your searches and perhaps find things you missed
Social Sciences Citation Index
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Allows you to cross search the sciences and social sciences
Is ‘part of’ Web of Science which is a big cross searchHas useful features which make your life easier:
you can follow references and citationsand you can check if we have an article by
clicking Each empty search box represents one concept so you
put all your synonyms for one concept in that box (with OR between them)
Getting into the databases....
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REMEMBER! Always use MyUniHub as a gateway to library
resources
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Click here
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Click here
And then here
Select ‘S’ for Social Sciences Index
Or ‘P’ for PsycInfo
Select Web of Science
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Scroll down and select the relevant databases from the list (usually social sciences or/and sciences citation indexes)
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Your search
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Make sure to encase phrases in speech marks and to put OR between
your synonyms
Results
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• Make sure to rank your results by relevance – you will see the matched keywords from your search highlighted – although some of these may be in the abstract.
• The WebBridge links will check if we have full text of that article at Middlesex for you. If we do it will link you through to the PDF
Follow the trail - citations
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In the record look for (right hand side)
PsycINFO
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Specific psychology database - subject specific information unlike other databases like Summon (searches all subjects) or Web of Knowledge (search broadly across sciences or social sciences)
Articles are tagged with psychology subject headings when indexed – useful for searching
Not completely full text but can limit results to full text Run by APA Worth noting US bias – if being comprehensive in search
would have to take this into account and use other resources as well
Has good additional limits – type of study, age of participants etc
Currently problems with relevancy ranking
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• Select Psycinfo • You can select PsycARTICLES Full Text but you will get far fewer results – to start it’s best to search PsycInfo and then limit within that to full text if you get enough results
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• At the moment there some problems with this database so I would use it for basic keyword searches only
28• Select ‘Additional limits’
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• Not all of these extra limits are that useful – the two most useful limits are ‘Methodology’ and ‘Age groups’ • Then click ‘limit a search’ at the top or bottom of the page• Do not worry too much about the others, some will be counterproductive and discount too many results!
Select qualitative from the
methodology list
Results!
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In basic search they will automatically sorted by a relevancy score (how well it matches your keywords)
You need to have a look and evaluate how relevant the results on the first few pages are You're using an academic journal database so you don't need to worry too much about
authority but you do need to think about
Currency Relevance Objectivity
Now you have results you can limit to full text or limit to a time frame on the left hand side menu (please note not much full text in this database!)
Full Text - PsycINFO
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PsycINFO has some full text but it’s less than a third
There will be results in the list which we DON’T have access to, so don’t be lazy – you’ll miss out and your work will suffer!
To see if these are available to you, check the title of the journal in the library catalogue – if it’s there, find the date of the issue you need
It is good practice to always have another tab open with the library catalogue in when using PsycINFO
Other useful databases
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Depending on your research topic, these databases may also be useful for your literature search:
Education Research CompleteInternational Bibliography of the Social SciencesSage Journals Online (over 630 journals published by Sage)Science Direct (full text scientific database)
You may access these from the Databases list (login to My UniHub>My Study>MyLibrary)
Getting Full text of journal articles
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Troubleshooting guide can be found here http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/psyaccess
REMEMBER – it won’t always be directly available to you – especially at PhD level
Double check the library catalogue by copying journal name into the ‘journal search’. If we have it, there’ll be a record and a link with the dates we have access to.
Go to Google Scholar and look for PDF signsGo to Author’s website/institution’s repository, often they have left
a pre publisher versionOrder a copy via the inter-library loan service (£3.00) (you’ll be
emailed with a link to a PDF)http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/library/resources/ill/index.aspx
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Evaluating results
Evaluating what you’ve found
Is it what you need and is it trustworthy?
What criteria would you use to assess the relevance and quality of the information?
Currency How old is this information? When was it last updated?
Authority Who is the author? Site creator, organisation, scholarly / peer reviewed journals etc?
Intent What is the purpose of the website / information? e.g. financial gain, academic
Relevance Is this what I need? Will it answer my question? Is it at the right level?
Objectivity Balanced view? Opposing views represented? References?
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Cutting Edge?
Staying up to date in your area
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In the databases we’ve looked at you can create a Personal account and set up alerts or RSS feeds for searches you’ve done – so when new results are added that match that search you’ll be emailed
Staying up to date – citation alerts
• In Web of Science databases (SSCI and SCI) • For articles particularly significant to your work/dissertation get an alert every time it is cited in new research
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Attribution
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How to access Cite them Right
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Click on the guide for Health and Education –
this will open and log you in to ‘Cite them Right’
Click the tab ‘Referencing’
http://libguides.ac.uk/plagiarismreferencing
Cite Them Right From the front page select what you want to reference (book/ journal/ something
from the internet etc)
It will then give you more specific options to choose
from
From the front page select what you want to
reference (book/ journal/
something from the internet etc)
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It will give examples of both how to
cite the information in
the text of your essay
You will be taken to details of how to reference that resource: First select the style of referencing from the drop down
As well as how to write the reference
for your bibliography
The box on the right hand side
gives you named fields, with correct punctuation,
for you to input the
details of your book
(you can then copy and paste this or email it
to yourself)
Referencing tools
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Refworks is an online site to manage your references subscribed to by the University – you access it like any other database through logging into MyUniHub > My Study > scroll down to ‘My library’ > databases
Mendeley is a free to use Open access website to which you can sign up and store and organise all your references http://www.mendeley.com/
Library subject guide
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This and other powerpoints and helpsheetsLibrarian contact details
Access via MyUniHub > My study > My library > library subject guides
Need help?
Distant Learner support lrdlsu@mdx.ac.ukRenewal queries: UniHelp 020 8411 6060Ask a Librarian http://askalibrarian.mdx.ac.uk/Library Subject Guides - Viv’s contact details and
power points/helpsheets http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk
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