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
  • Tripod
  • PsycINFO
  • 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

SURVEY RESULTS

SURVEY RESULTS

hOW DO YOU TYPICALLY APPROACH GENERATING KEYWORDS?

Google scholar

Generating keywords

Research question:

 Why do veterans with PTSD use telehealth for mental health support?

Activity:

Pair up and take two minutes to discuss possible keywords and synonyms

 keywords

Research question:

 Why do veterans with PTSD use telehealth for mental health support?

Activity:

Pair up and take two minutes to discuss possible keywords and synonyms

 

PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder

posttraumatic stress disorder

stress reaction 

traumatic neuroses

battle fatigue

combat fatigue

shell shock

 

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 PSYCINFO

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

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