Introduction to Library
Research
PSYC 004
Christina Bush, Psychology Librarian
Agenda
- Introduction to Librarian/Connect With Me
- Survey Results/Your questions
- Generating Keywords
- Natural Language vs. Controlled Vocabulary
- Searching in:
- Tripod
- Databases
- PsycINFO
- ERIC
- Active Searching
- Evaluation/BEAM
- APA Citation Style Guide
- Using the Stacks
- 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
SURVEY RESULTS
Emergent Themes:
Your Questions/Emergent Themes:
Search Strategies
Bias
Literature Reviews
SURVEY RESULTS
Emergent Themes:
Your Questions/Emergent Themes:
Search Strategies
Bias
Literature Reviews
SURVEY RESULTS
Your Questions/Emergent Themes:
General access to library resources
Identifying relevant research/sources
APA citation style
hOW DO YOU TYPICALLY APPROACH GENERATING KEYWORDS?
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
Active SEARCHING
Evaluate using BEAM
- BACKGROUND: use a source to provide factual and "noncontroversial" information or context
- EVIDENCE: using Data, observations, objects, artifacts, documents that can be analyzed
- ARGUMENT:using the Critical views from other scholars and commentators; part of the academic conversation
- METHOD: using a source’s way of analyzing an issue to apply to your own issue.
you can think of BEAM as both directive or how you approach and engage in the search process and evaluative, helping you to assess what you have found
Questions?
Christina Bush
cbush1@swarthmore.edu
PSYC004
By Swarthmore Reference
