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CHYS 4P70
Library Workshop
- Basic search strategy
- Key resources for CHYS research
- Evaluating information online
- Citation management
Today:
Basic Search Strategy
1. Formulate research question
2. Identify major topic(s)
3. Generate keywords
4. Combine these using database language
5. Analyze search results and repeat process.
Basic Search Strategy
1. Formulate research question.
How does bullying affect academic performance among adolescents?
Basic Search Strategy
2. Identify major topic(s).
How does bullying affect academic performance among adolescents?
Topic 1: bullying
Topic 2: academic performance
Topic 3: adolescence
Basic Search Strategy
3. Use these to generate keywords.
**Consider related or synonymous concepts**
Concept 1: bullying, bullies, bully, bullied, victim
Concept 2: academic performance, school performance, grades, GPA, college admission
Concept 3: adolescence, adolescents, teenage, high school
Basic Search Strategy
4. Combine these using database language.
- Boolean operators (AND/OR)
- Exact phrase (" ")
- Truncation (*)
Boolean Operators (AND/OR)
Combine synonyms or related concepts with OR:
bullying OR bully OR bullied OR victim
Combine different concepts with AND:
bullying AND adolescent
Exact phrases
Enclose whole phrases in " "
"school performance" OR "academic performance"
adolescent OR "high school"
Truncation
Find all variations of a word by using * :
bully OR bullied OR bullies OR bullying
IS THE SAME AS
bull*
Search Strategy
bully*
AND
"academic performance" OR GPA
AND
adoles* OR teenage* OR "high school"
CHYS Research Guide
SuperSearch
Broad
Interdisciplinary
Books, articles ( ~75%), newspapers, kitchen sink
Psychological literature
Coverage of articles NOT in SuperSearch
Powerful filters and citation tracking features
Term Finder
Look up standardized terms used in PsycInfo
Filters
- Peer-review
- Dates
-
Methodology
- Empirical Study
- Clinical Trial
- Literature Review
- Subject Groups
- Population (Animal, Human, Men, Women, Transgender)
- Age
- Standardized Tests or Measures
Cited References
- All references cited BY an article
AND
- All times an article WAS CITED after publication
Sociological literature
Includes ERIC, education research database
Thesis databases
Examples of past CHYS theses from Brock and other institutions.
Assessing Information
Assessing Information
Purpose
Authority
Relevance
Currency
Accuracy
Assessing Information
Purpose
Authority
Relevance
Currency
Accuracy
bit.ly/2fNcDxn
You want information on the "carding" policy employed by Toronto police.
In pairs, evaluate this article using PARCA
Google better, but Google carefully...
Further Resources on Assessing Information Online
Citation Managers
What they do
- Save citations and links for future use
- Organize collected references
- Automatically generate citations and bibliographies in your preferred style
Thank you!
Questions?
This presentation: bit.ly/2ggfobh
CHYS 4P70
By jdingle
