psyc 25 / library lab

Librarian

Pam Harris

🎨 literature review 🎨
drawing upon 📚 theory & research 📚 to address a

🔍 question or problem 🔍 that speaks to 🤓 an academic 😎 -- audience

PsycINFO

• 5 million records

• mostly articles

• 99% peer reviewed

Professional Indexers

• 40 searchable fields

• Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms

  • aka "controlled vocabulary"

🎨 I can't find anything 📚on my topic!
📚  🔍  🤓
I found too many things on my 🎨 topic!  😎

Today's Goals

■  Diagram research topics in order to:

     – determine scope of inquiry

     – break complex ideas down into searchable
        parts
 

■  Identify keywords and use them effectively in    
    PsycINFO searches

YOUR KEYWORDS!

Topic 1

Topic 4

Topic 2

Topic 3

THANK YOU!