Psychology 1010 General Psychology

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Psychology 1010General Psychology

• Research Techniques
• Instruction Session
• Presented 2/4/09 by Dan Overfield
• daniel.overfield_at_tri-c.edu

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Class Blog

• http//psy1010.blogspot.com

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Overview

• Librarians Role
• Finding Books
• Finding Articles
• Citing your work

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The Library

• A librarian.?
• Provides detailed research assistance for your
  specific questions.
• Knows how to use the research tools that are
  available to you

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Reference Desk is on the 4th Floor(216) 987-4296
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Finding Books

• Library Catalog
• Search from the subject headings
• Request a book from another campus
• OhioLink
• Request a book from another library in Ohio
• Worldcat
• See local public and academic library catalogs.
  Useful in a pinch when you may not have time to
  wait for book delivery

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Catalog
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Keyword vs. Subject vs. Title

• What is the difference between a keyword and a
  subject?
• Do a search in the catalog for the same word
  using all three of the above limits.

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Subject
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Title
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Keyword
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Keyword

• Keyword
• The cataloging is looking for anything that will
  match the sequence of letters that you entered
  (including misspellings, singular, plural the
  catalog will NOT correct these things Nor will it
  think for you.

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Subject

• Subject
• The computer is looking for your sequence of
  letters, but only within the Subject (about)
  field. It is not looking for the letters in the
  title, or description (keyword) boxes.

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Title

• Title
• The catalog will only look for your entry in the
  TITLE field

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Keyword, SubjectBoxes? Fields?
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Psychology or Zoology Search skills that work

• And or not
• Three simple and yet confusing words
• Boolean Operators!
• !

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Using math to explain and, or, and not

• (13)x 2 ?
• 1 (3 x 2) ?
• Orange and California?
• Orange and California not Color
• (Orange or Citrus or Fruit) and California
• Orange or California?

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Boolean

• Databases wont think for you.
• Wildcard characters like (?) or () are helpful
  in expanding the scope of your search.
• Search example
• Ocean vs. Ocean

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Ocean vs. Ocean
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Major Databases

• Psychology
• On the librarys website go to FINDING
  ARTICLES.
• Click - Alphabetic listing of all available
  databases .
• Then select by subject.
• This is not a list of all of the major
  resources for these areas of study, it is merely
  a list of the resources that are available to you
  as a student at this time.
• There is also a subject guide for Psychology
  available on the library homepage.

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CLICK this SLIDE to get to the list!
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Psychology Resources

• PsycInfo
• Article Citations Specific to Psychology
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
• Academic Search Complete
• General academic research.

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PsycInfo
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PsycInfo Limit Options.
I did something wrong here, can anyone see what
that is?
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Search Results
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Limit your results by subject
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How do find the actual article?
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Click FIND IT to get to full text
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What if there is NO full text?
If there is not a FULL Text Link on this page
then you must email a librarian to request the
article from interlibrary loan. You can email me
at daniel.overfield_at_tri-c.edu and I will be
happy to help.
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Citing in APA Style
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Academic Search Complete

• This is a very broad and general database with
  journals, magazines, newspapers, and other
  sources that represent all sorts of academic and
  non-academic disciplines.
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences uses the exact
  same search interface as Academic Search
  Complete.

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Academic Search Complete
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Narrow by Subject and Academic Journals
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I found my articles so now what?

• Add the items to your folder
• Open your folder
• Select one, two, some, or all
• Email them to yourself.

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Citing in APA Style
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How to cite your work?

• APA style http//library.osu.edu/sites/guides/apa
  gd.php
• Citation Machine http//citationmachine.net/
• Most Databases will also provide an APA citation
• You need to take the reader of your work as close
  as possible to the article that you are citing.
  You should not leave the reader with any doubt as
  to what you cited.

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Citation Machine
ENTER YOUR OWN DETAILS ACCORDING TO THE BOXES
BELOW
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Citation Machine Results
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Summary

• Librarians are professional faculty who are here
  to help you to get the most out of your time and
  money.
• We are not going to do the work for you, but we
  will make sure that you dont waste your time.