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PSY3330Adam Edwards for Viv Eades
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PSY3330Literature searching for your dissertation
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Today....
• Thinking about topic area and keywords
• Comprehensive literature searching
• Where to search
• Tests
• Managing references
• Keeping up to date
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Drop ins! Practical labs
Viv cannot possibly have 1:1 appointments with you all! So come to these group sessions
• In November • To be arranged when Viv is back
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Preparation
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Thinking about keywords
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The real thing:
•Keywords
•Alternative keywords
•More specific keywords
•Related subjects
Your project: Describe in 3 words only
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SynonymsCrime Drug addiction Treatment
Criminal* “Substance abuse” Therapy
Offender* “Illicit drugs” Counsel*
Convict* “Illegal drugs” Program*
“Criminal population”
Inmate*
“Criminal justice system”
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Narrower Terms
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Narrowing your topic
• People or participants:– Racial/cultural/nationality groups– Age– Type of participant
• Way you measure it
• Sub-factors (E.g. Media effect on self esteem):– Fashion and Beauty media– Effect on body image or self worth– Among Women / students
– Among students in UK/Dubai/Mauritius
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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*
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Get better results & find things faster
• Spelling US v UK:• behavior / behaviour • counselor / counsellor
• Truncate *: • Offend* = offending, offender, offenders • Counsel* = counselling, counsellor,
counsellors
• Phrases (words in that order)• “substance abuse”
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Literature Searching
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Find out moreMyUniHub > MyStudy > MyLibrary > Library Subject Guides
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Finding resourcesmyUniHub > My Study > My Library > Summon
Select Summon and search for information for your project
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Refining your search
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Journal databasesmyUniHub > My Study > My Library > Databases
Look for the database by name
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Psychinfo
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Summon and Psychinfo provide:
• Access to quality information
• Information not available elsewhere
• Up-to-date
• Focussed/specific
• Full-text access
• Access on/off campus
• Personalize
• Citation and journal impact info
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Other databases
• ScienceDirect - useful for health focused topics
• ProQuest – Newspapers database
• Education Research Complete
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science
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Google Scholar
• Set Google Scholar to find everything you have free access to via Middlesex
• Google Scholar > settings
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Personalising Google Scholar ...
• Click library links
• Search Middlesex university
• Select Middlesex University – Full Text @ Middlesex
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Searching Google Scholar ...
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Searching Google Scholar ...
• Is there anything you notice about results? • Many results are quite old
• Mostly journal articles - look at the source
• No definitive list of what Scholar searches
• If full text not in Scholar • Click on ‘Cite’
• Copy and paste full citation into Google
• May find it if it’s a report
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Citation searching
• 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
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Web of ScienceMyUniHub > MyStudy > MyLibrary > DWatabases > W > Web of Science
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> W
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Repeat and improve
• Repeat, improve = improved results. • Try different things
• Follow citations
• Expand your keywords as you go
• Alternative or new keywords in results
— Re-run your searches
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Inferring• Effectiveness of mentoring on young homeless people— Mentoring and young people— Mentors and homeless people — Support for homeless people getting out of homelessness • Peer, media and family influences among African and Afro-
Caribbean women and the effects on self esteem and body image— Media influences on women and their self image— Peer/family/cultural influences on women and their self image— Media influences on Black/Afro Caribbean populations and their
confidence/self image — Media influences on people’s self worth and body image • Impact of missing father figure on teenage girls— Missing father figure with teenage boys — Missing father figure - influence on adult women — Missing father figure - influence on very young female children — Key stages of development for teenagers — Parenting and its role in development
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Getting full text of journal articles
• Troubleshooting guide can be found here • http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/psyaccess
• Double check library catalogue• Copy journal title into search• Choose ‘journal keyword’ • Find record • Find correct date
• Go to Author’s website/institution’s repository
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It’s not in the Library!
• Inter Library Loans • http://bit.ly/InterLibraryLoans (£3.00 each)
• Sconul Access • http://www.access.sconul.ac.uk/sconul-access
• Other libraries • http://bit.ly/visitingotherlibraries
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Tests
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PsycTESTS database
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More tests
• Look for tests from previous studies in journal articles
— They may be in the appendix
— You may find the authoritative test by Googling (confirm with tutor)
— Email academics: They may send you the test, and often lots more useful info too!
• Psychology department test library
— Not in Sheppard Library
— Myunihub > My study > My Learning > PSY3330
— Find index of tests (word document)
— Download and complete Test Request form.
— Email to Jackie. Cc: Your supervisor
— She will collect the test when possible. You will not get the test immediately.
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Bonus extras
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Keeping up-to-date with your subject
• WoS alerts (RSS feeds)
• PsycInfo saved searches
• Zetoc Alert
• CiteuLike
• TicTOC
• Google Alerts
More information on Library Subject Guides
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Managing references• Bibliographic management software
• Flow
• http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/flow
• Proquest for Word
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Find out moreMyUniHub > MyStudy > MyLibrary > Library Subject Guides
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Need help?
• Librarians in Study Zone (1st floor)
• 11-3 Monday – Friday (on call 9-11 and 3-5)
• Ask a Librarian http://askalibrarian.mdx.ac.uk/
• Psychology Subject Guide http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/psy
• Viv Eades (November) [email protected]
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Any questions?