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Housekeeping
• How’s it going?
• Any questions so far?
• Can you find your recommended reading?
• Do you know who to contact for help?
• Library Subject Guides?
Getting started
By tableatny (BXP135671) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Access from myUniHub > My Study page > My Library > Library Subject Guides
Hover your mouse over Resources to see pages on specific topics, e.g. Finding Journal Articles
Summon
Searches journals, books and more
Good starting point for a basic search
NOT specific to sport!
Doesn’t do specific or complex searching
Refine, refine, refine
Full text online
Scholarly & peer review
Journal Articles only
Discipline,
e.g. recreation & sports
Date range
What are you looking for?
• Briefly summarise your topic
(doesn’t have to be detailed)
• Can you sum up your topic in only 5 words? 3 words?
Keywords• Brainstorm – it will save you time later!
• Searching one word for your concept will not necessarily bring you all the results! And sometimes none.Not everyone uses the same terminology for one idea
• Can use the worksheet if you like (also helps you organise how to combine the terms with ‘AND’ or ‘OR’)
Planning your search - keywords
1. Pick out your concepts and separate them
–Concentration, performance, tennis etc
2. Think of other words that are different from your key words but represent similar concepts
–Attention control, focus, attentional strategies, racket/racquet sports etc
Planning your search - keywords
3. Be Prepared
Think of narrower words that fit into your topic and wider concepts that your topic fits into.
You will often need to:
A. widen your search by using larger terms or concepts to produce more results
OR
B. narrow your search if you produce too many results, by using more specific 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
concentration
• Concentrat*
• Attention
• Focus
• “Attention control training”
• “Attentional strategies”
performance
• Ways of measuring performance
• Perform*
tennis• Racket sports
• Type of competition
What research has
been conducted on
improving
concentration and
performance in
tennis players?
Specific egs
• Specific groups of athletes
•Age?
•Gender?
•Level – elite etc?
Back to your topic
• Narrow it down to some key words
• Swap with your neighbour – add some they haven’t thought of
Key databases for Sport
• Sport Discus
• Medline / PubMed
• PsycInfo
• Science Citation Index
• Science Direct
Sport Discus
• After a short demo...
• Try searching for some articles on your topic
• Use the ‘check for full text’ links
Personalising Google Scholar• Did you know you can set up Google Scholar to link
to everything you have paid access to through the University?
• Google Scholar > Settings
Personalising Google Scholar…
• Click on Library Links on left hand side
• Search for and select Middlesex University, then Save
Searching Google Scholar
Getting Full text of journal articles
• MyUniHub > My Study > My Library to log you in
• If you’re not lucky… REMEMBER – it won’t always be directly available to you – especially at MSc level
• Double-check (library catalogue)
• Google Scholar
• Authors’ & institutions’ websites
• Researcher networks (e.g. ResearchGate), contacting authors
• Inter-Library Loans
Getting Full text of journal articles
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• Troubleshooting guide can be found here – http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/accessingelectronicresources
• If you’re not lucky… REMEMBER – it won’t always be directly available to you – especially at MSc 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 signs, check ‘all x versions’– Search for Author’s website/institution’s repository, often they have uploaded
a pre-publication version– ResearchGate, Academia.edu…– Emailing authors– Order a copy via the inter-library loan service (you’ll be emailed with a link to
a PDF) (£3.00 added to your library account)http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/study/library/resources/ill/index.aspx
Citation indexes
• Which articles have cited an earlier article
• Find articles on similar/related subject
• How many times an article has been cited
• Best journals in your field
Staying up to date in your area
• Most of the databases have an option to set up an account, so you can save searches and set up alerts or RSS feeds for new articles
Staying up to date – citation alerts• In Science Citation Index
• For articles significant to your work/dissertation – get an alert when it is cited in new research
Referencing tools
• Cite Them Right
• Flow
• Mendeley
Shows you how to reference just about any source using Harvard referencing style
Other referencing styles e.g. APA are available for the main resource types
Access via MyUniHub / Subject guides
Online site to manage references, subscribed to by the University
Access through the Databases list on MyUniHub
Generate your references in many different styles – including journals
Help available on Subject Guides
Freely available software
Online and desktop versions
BOTHStore and annotate PDF files
Available to you after you’ve left MDX
Share references and notes with groups
Need help?
• Librarians in the Study Hub (1st floor of Sheppard Library) during core hours Mon-Fri
• Ask a Librarian http://askalibrarian.mdx.ac.uk/• SES Library Subject Guide – Jo’s contact details and
presentations/helpsheetshttp://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/sport