Metanoia literature searching 2014

Literature searching for MetanoiaKathy McGowan for Viv Eades

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Today....

• Planning your searching: keywords and concepts

• Introduction to searching different databasesSocial Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) Google ScholarPsycINFO

• Where to find referencing information and support resources

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Planning your search - keywords

What research has been conducted on the use of therapy for offenders who take drugs?

What are the main concepts in this question?

What are the alternative keywords you could use for each concept?

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Synonyms

Crime Drug addiction Treatment

Criminal* “Substance abuse” Therapy

Offender* “Illicit drugs” Counsel*

Convict* “Illegal drugs” Program*

“Criminal population”

Inmate*

“Criminal justice system”

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Narrower Terms

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crime

• Criminal*• Offender*• Convict*• “Criminal population”• Inmate*• “Criminal justice system”

Drug addiction

• “Substance abuse”• “Illicit drugs”• “Illegal drugs”• “addictive

substances”

therapy• Treatment*• Programme*

OR Program*• Counsel*

What research has been conducted on the use of therapy for offenders who take drugs?

HMP

•“Youth offenders” •“Repeat offenders”•“First time offenders” •“Violent offenders”

• Opiates• “Psychotropic drugs”•“Prescription drugs” • Specific drug names ... Prozac, cannabis, crack cocaine, heroin etc

• “Talk therapy”• “Behavioural therapy” OR CBT OR “Behavioral therapy” • Medicat*• “Family Therapy”• “residential therapy” OR rehab*

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Get better results & find things faster

• Spelling US v UK:• behavior / behaviour • counselor / counsellor

• Truncate *: • Offend* = offending, offender, offenders • Counsel* = counselling, counsellor,

counsellors

• Phrases (words in that order)• “substance abuse”

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Literature Searching

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Finding resourcesmyUniHub > My Study > My Library

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Journal databasesmyUniHub > My Study > My Library > Databases

Look for the database by name

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Psycinfo

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Psycinfo – use Advanced Search to combine search terms

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Search limits

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Refine search

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Other databases

• ScienceDirect - useful for health focused topics

• ProQuest – Newspapers database

• Education Research Complete

• Google Scholar

• Web of Science

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Google Scholar

• Set Google Scholar to find everything you have free access to via Middlesex

• Google Scholar > settings

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Personalising Google Scholar ...

• Click library links

• Search Middlesex university

• Select Middlesex University – Full Text @ Middlesex

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Searching Google Scholar ...

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Searching Google Scholar ...

• Is there anything you notice about results? • Many results are quite old

• Mostly journal articles - look at the source

• No definitive list of what Scholar searches

• If full text not in Scholar • Click on ‘Cite’

• Copy and paste full citation into Google

• If it’s a report, you may find it

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Use citation searching:

• Find which articles have cited an earlier article

• Find articles on similar/related subject

• How many times an article has been cited

• Best journals in your field

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Select Web of ScienceMyUniHub>MyStudy>MyLibrary>Databases>Web of Knowledge>Web of Science

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From More Settings, select the relevant databases (usually social sciences &/or sciences citation indexes)

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Your search

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Results

• Make sure to rank your results by relevance – you will see the matched keywords from your search highlighted – although some of these may be in the abstract.

• Use the WebBridge link to check if we have full text of the article at Middlesex. If we do, it will link you through to the PDF

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Web of Science citation searching

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Repeat and improve

• Repeat, improve = improved results. • Try different things

• Follow citations

• Expand your keywords as you go

• Alternative or new keywords in results

—Re-run your searches

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Getting full text of journal articles

• Troubleshooting guide can be found here • http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/psyaccess

• Double check library catalogue• Choose ‘journal keyword’ search • Copy journal title into search box• ’Find record • Find correct volume number, date

• Go to Author’s website/institution’s repository

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It’s not in the Library!

• Inter Library Loans

• http://bit.ly/InterLibraryLoans (£3.00 each)

www.sconul.ac.uk/sconul-access tp://www.access.sconul.ac.uk/sconul-access

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Managing references• Bibliographic management software

• Flow

• http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/flow

• Proquest for Word

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Find out moreMyUniHub > MyStudy > MyLibrary > Library Subject Guides

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Need help?

• Librarians in StudyHub (1st floor)

• 10-5 Monday – Friday (on call 9-10)

• Ask a Librarian http://askalibrarian.mdx.ac.uk/

• Psychology Subject Guide http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/psy

• Viv Eades v.eades@mdx.ac.uk

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Any questions?