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

Let's search iN

psycinfo

 

 

Let's search iN

ERIC

 

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

APA Citation STYLE GUIDE

Questions?

Christina Bush

cbush1@swarthmore.edu

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