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- 3. What are you looking for? • Your name • The topic you’ve chosen Tell me:
- 4. Bibliographic Databases WHAT ARE THEY? A list of sources of information like: Journals, Articles, Books... These information sources are shown as records. Each record contains everything you need to know about the information source. Sometimes you only have the record. Sometimes you can directly access the article in Full Text.
- 5. Bibliographic Databases HOW TO ACCESS THEM? Library website > databases Look them all up to decide on the ones you should use!
- 6. Doing a Literature Search
- 7. Write down your topic AN EXAMPLE: Parents’ experience of receiving an autism diagnosis for their child.
- 8. Identify important keywords AN EXAMPLE: Parents’ experience of receiving an autism diagnosis for their child.
- 9. Find variations on keywords You should think of: • synonyms, • plurals, • verbs / nouns, • US spelling…
- 10. Find variations on keywords Parents Parent Parenting Parental attitude Autism Autistic spectrum Aspergers syndrome Diagnosis Diagnostic process Child Children Childhood
- 11. Now, it’s time to search! When searching, it’s best to start very large and to narrow down step by step…
- 12. First, a useful tool BOOLEAN OPERATORS Link!
- 13. Know you know what you want: Parents Parent Parenting Parental attitude Autism Autistic spectrum Aspergers syndrome Diagnosis Diagnostic process Child Children Childhood OR OR OR OR OR OR OR OR AND AND AND
- 14. Let’s search each group
- 15. Group 1 Parents Parent Parenting Parental attitude Parent* * = truncation symbol
- 16. Mind where you put the *! Psychia* Psychiatry Psychiatric Psychiatrist
- 17. Mind where you put the *! Psych* Psychosis Psychotic Psychedelic Psychology Psychologist Psychological Psychopathy Psychosomatic Psychotherapy Psychopathology Psychoanalysis Psychiatry Psychiatric Psychiatrist Psyche, etc.
- 18. Group 2 Autism Autistic spectrum Aspergers syndrome Autis* OR Aspergers
- 19. Group 3 Diagnosis Diagnostic process Diagnos*
- 20. Group 4 Child Children Childhood Characteristic of the group studied Limiters
- 21. Link it! Parent* Autis* OR Diagnos* Aspergers AND AND
- 22. Too many results? Limit! USEFUL LIMITERS: • Linked full-text • Publication year • Age • Gender • Methodology • Tests & Measures
- 23. Got something good? Save it!
- 24. Your EBSCOhost account TO SAVE: • Your searches • Your references
- 25. Follow the thread… YOU SHOULD CHECK • Papers from the same author • Papers in the same journal • This paper’s bibliography • Papers that reference this paper in their bibliography
- 26. Write down your references • Copy it directly from the record! • You need to chose the “Harvard Style”
- 27. Ready? Go! Good luck with your assessment!
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