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Contact Information
• Tom Schmiedel
• Room 103 Haas Library
• 203-837-9141
• schmiedeltf@wcsu.edu
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Off campus access (two options)
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Written Resources Online and/or Print
An Ocean of Resources
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Scholarly VS Popular Writing http://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/scholarly-vs-popular
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Scholarly vs Popular Writing Characteristics
Scholarly Popular
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Scholarly vs Popular Writing
Scholarly Popular
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Primary and Secondary Resources http://www.xavier.edu/library/help/primary_secondary_sources_biology.pdf
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The Flow of Information
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/usered/grad/researchskills/flow_of_info.html
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The Assignment
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The Assignment
• First, read Angell’s article, The Crazy State of Psychiatry”
• Second, read over Sally Small’s commentary
• Third, “In a five-to-seven page paper defend, refute, or qualify Small’s statement.”
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1. If what Angell writes is correct, she is far too lame about what ought to be done to remedy the unholy alliance of psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies.
2. The response of the FDA has actually made the problem worse by concealing the true nature of drug trials.
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Sally Small’s Comments
3. Both psychiatrists and drug companies must face more severe penalties for their questionable practices.
4. After writing a searing indictment, Angell settles for very mild remedies for the abuses she describes.
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Sally Small’s Comments
The Assignment (continued)
• Investigate the charges that Small has made and offer substantial reasons for whatever judgment you make of Small’s opinion.
• A good paper will focus on one facet of Angell’s indictment to show whether Small is correct in her judgment when that facet is considered
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The Assignment (continued)
• Compile a working bibliography of ten sources that you might use in this paper
• Include
– Four citations to peer-reviewed journal articles
– A book
– Magazine or newspaper articles and websites.
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Before you start searching…
• Identify a research question/topic …
– What question do you want to ask/answer?
– Make a list of key terms and synonyms …
– You can revise it as your search progresses …
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Search Strategy
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Where to Look for Information?
• Google? (websites and other formats)
• Google Scholar? (mostly scholarly?)
• Library Databases (mostly journals, some magazines)
• Library catalog (books)
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Google Search
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Google Search
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Undue Pharmaceutical Influence on Psychiatric Practice http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/articles/undue-pharmaceutical-influence-
psychiatric-practice
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Databases
• Organized collection of documents
• Articles, reports, book reviews, books, and more …
• Articles
– Peer reviewed journals
– Others (magazines, newspapers)
• Has tools to help you successfully locate what you need
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Databases (also called article databases, index or index/abstract databases)
• PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, PubMed, Medline, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
Getting the actual article
• Some databases
– (a) provide the actual article within the database – (b) link out to the article somewhere outside of the database – (c) do not provide the article (in which case one needs to use
interlibrary loan ILL)
• Don’t forget to get the citations
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Academic Search Premier
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Databases (also called article databases, index or index/abstract databases)
• Articles are indexed in databases fields. – Similar to index of words/subjects/topics in back of a book
• Generally, one uses search terms in fields: – Title field
– Abstract field
– Author field
– keyword, topic, subject, and full-text are other fields.
• Controlled Vocabulary – Agreed upon terminology to be used in describe
articles or books (Ex. dog instead of canine)
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Getting to
the databases
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Subject Databases
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Advanced Search
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Search Terms
~448K results ~752K results ~567K results
Results of searches for individual terms
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psychiatry pharmaceutical ethics
“Boolean” Search - AND
psychiatry AND pharmaceutical
= only area common to both terms
~ 44K results
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psychiatry pharmaceutical
Boolean AND
psychiatry AND pharmaceutical AND ethics
= ~ 6K results
only area common to all 3 terms
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psychiatry pharmaceutical
ethics
Boolean Searching (simple vs. advanced)
~448K results (search - all fields)
~ 8K results (advanced search in title)
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psychiatry
Boolean AND
psychiatry AND pharmaceutical
= only area common to both
~ 44K results (all fields)
11 results (title only)
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psychiatry pharmaceutical
Boolean AND
psychiatry AND pharmaceutical AND ethics
= only area common to all
~6K results (all fields)
~ 0 results (title only)
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psychiatry pharmaceutical
ethics
Boolean AND
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Pharmaceutical Drugs
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Boolean OR
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Pharmaceutical Drugs
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Database Searching
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Searching within Full-text
Searching within Full-text: 6K results
NOT searching within full-text: 151 results
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Example Article: Article Record
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Example Article: Abstract
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Example Article: Full-text (PDF in this case)
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Psychiatry in Abstract Field
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Psychiatry in Title Field
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Article Record
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Journal Finder
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Interlibrary Loan
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Interlibrary Loan
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Iliad (For Interlibrary Loan)
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Subject Search “Controlled Vocabulary”
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Limit by Subjects
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Citations
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Reference/Citations MLA Format
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Contact Information
• Tom Schmiedel
• Room 103 Haas Library
• 203-837-9141
• schmiedeltf@wcsu.edu
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