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) v.eades@mdx.ac.uk

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Any questions?