Introduction to Library
Research
PSYC 025
Christina Bush Psychology Librarian
Agenda
- Introduction to Librarian/Connect With Me
- Survey Results/Your questions
- Generating Keywords
- Natural Language vs. Controlled Vocabulary
- Web of Science
- Active Searching
- Keeping track of your research
- How to get help
- Final Questions
Who I am
- Christina Bush (she/her/hers)
- Research + Instruction Librarian, Liaison to Black Studies, Educational Studies, Psychology
- email me: cbush1@swarthmore.edu
- Make an appointment with me here
SURVEY RESULTS
Emergent Themes:
Your Questions/Emergent Themes:
Search Strategies
Bias
Literature Reviews
hOW DO YOU TYPICALLY APPROACH GENERATING KEYWORDS?
Generating keywords
Research question:
Do children with pets demonstrate higher empathy?
Activity:
Pair up and take two minutes to discuss possible keywords and synonyms
keywords
A significant word or phrase in the title, subject headings (descriptors), contents note, abstract, or text of a record in an online catalog or bibliographic database that can be used as a search term in a free-text search to retrieve records containing it also referred to as natural language
Controlled Vocabulary
predefined, authorized terms that have been indexed by the designer of the vocabulary -- typically LOC or a database
Let's Search in TRIPOD
Let's search iN web of science
Search Activity
- Using your own topic (or idea for a topic)
- Identify keywords and synonyms
- Use your terms to search in Web of Science
- Remember some of the strategies we discussed including Boolean, filtering, subject headings, and trailing
I'll ask a few of you to report what you found
Evaluate What You Found​
- Evaluate the results
- Do the result seem relevant?
- Take a closer look by actually clicking in them
- Did you notice anything interesting in terms of the outlined "major subjects"
- Did you notice/use any of the additional features like filtering, major subjects, citation generators?
- Were you able to access the text (i.e. full text pdf)
- Anything else of note?
Keeping Track and Getting Help
Questions?
Christina Bush
cbush1@swarthmore.edu