Psychology Honours Year Tutorial

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Psychology Honours Year Tutorial

• Gerrie Kow
• clbky_at_nus.edu.sg
• Hayati Abdul
• clbha_at_nus.edu.sg

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Objectives

• To show you how to
• Use the advanced features in PsycINFO to retrieve
  desired information.
• Search other databases for Psychology related
  information.
• Access library resources and services through our
  library portal.

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Learning Outcomes

• At the end of the session, you will
• Know where the advanced features of PsycINFO are
  and how to use them.
• Know the scope, coverage and basic usage of the
  databases introduced.
• Know how to access library resources and services
  through our library portal.

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Table of Contents

• Sources
• Search Strategy
• Search Journal Articles
• Search Newspapers
• Search for Theses
• Request for demographical statistics
• Library services resources

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Sources
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Build Your Search Identify keywords
To what extent should the corporal punishment of
children be considered a kind of child abuse?
Keywords would be corporal/physical punishment,
child/children abuse
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Build Your Search Boolean Operators
AND Both terms must appear
punishment
abuse
OR One or other may appear
punishment
abuse
NOT One term may appear but not the other
abuse
punishment
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Build Your Search Use of / and round
parentheses ( )

• Use for variant forms of term
• - child child, children
• - punish punish, punishes, punishment,
  punishing
• Use ( ) for grouping words or phrases
• - (interethnic or interracial) and dating
• interracial dating, interethnic dating
• - (teen or adolescen) and pregnancy
• teenage pregnancy
• adolescent pregnancy

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Search Statement
To what extent should the corporal punishment of
children be considered a kind of child abuse?
corporal/physical punishment/discipline
child/children abuse
(corporal or physical) and punishment and child
abuse
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Searching in Databases

• Use natural language
• List keywords, synonyms variant spellings
• May have to refine or broaden search with
• AND, OR, NOT, , ( )
• Formulate a keyword search statement
• Can limit search by language, by date
• Sort by relevance and times cited if available
• Edit search statement and refine search again.
• Mark, save, print, email, export results
• Retrieve full-text if necessary

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Search Journal Articles

• Databases covered
• PsycINFO
• Scopus
• Web of Science

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Accessing E-Resources
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PsycINFO
Quick Reference Guide http//www.ovid.com/site/pdf
/osp/OvidSP_QRC_021108.pdf
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PsycINFO

• American Psychological Association (APA) database
  
• Provides abstracts, citations some full-text to
  psychological literature.
• Provides access to book chapters, journal
  articles, conference reports, dissertations, etc.
  
• Coverage 1806-present.

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PsycINFO Basic Search
How does parenting style affect academic
achievement in adolescents?
parenting styles
academic achievement
adolescents
parenting styles adolescents academic
achievement
Check Include Related Terms
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PsycINFO Basic Search
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Additional Limits
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Accessing the Record
Narrow Search
Your Options
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Exporting Records
What info do you want?
What do you want to do with the results you have
selected?
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PsycINFO Advanced Search
How does parenting style affect academic
achievement in adolescents?
adolescent/adolescence/ youth/teen/teens
parenting style/s
academic/school achievement
parenting style and (adolescen or youth or
teen) and (school or academic) and achievement
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PsycINFO Advanced Search

• Please add the following limit
• Empirical Human Populations
• adolescence

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PsycINFO Search Tools
Find out more about a term
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PsycINFO Multi-Field Search
Search by combining fields
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PsycINFO Multi-Field Search
Does exposure to media violence and pornography
produce aggression in viewers?
pornography
Aggressi
media/television violence
(media or television) and violence and
pornography and aggressi
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Search Tips for PsycINFO

• Basic Search
• Natural language search
• Do not enter Boolean operators, wildcards,
  truncation in
• search box
• Click on Include Related Terms
• Apply a database limit(s) optional
• Use search aid to narrow search
• Advanced Search
• Allows for more complex and exact searches
• Use Boolean operators, such as OR, AND, NOT
• Use for multi-character wildcard (truncation)
• More information can be found on the Database
  field guide on the top of the screen.

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User Guidehttp//www.info.scopus.com/setup/promo/
promo_material/docs/00000_Scopus_User_Guide_Genera
l_4WEB08.pdf
Scopus
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Scopus

• Provides indexing, abstracting of and citation
  linking to
• peer reviewed open access journals
• conference proceedings, books
• web sources, author homepages, university sites,
  articles-in-press, preprints, etc.
• Coverage, 1966-
• Focused on Scientific, Technical, Medical
  Social Sciences literature.
• Over 50 of content originates from Europe, Latin
  America and the Asia Pacific region

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Scopus Basic Search
How can social identity theory be applied to the
construction of the individual self-concept?
social identity theory
self-concept
social identity theory and self-concept
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Scopus Basic Search
Default fields
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Scopus Results Display
Action bar
Sorting bar
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Scopus Refine Results
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Search Tips on Scopus

• Basic Search
• Use Boolean operators, such as OR, AND, NOT, also
  multi-character wildcard
• Default search in Article title, Abstract,
  Keywords
• Use Limit fields
• Use Refine results
• Combine Search History

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Notes on Scopus

• Offers Basic, Advanced, Author searches
• Alerts create and save search strategies
• Cited By lists articles citing the target paper
  
• Combine manipulate sets to refine results
• Export references sent to EndNote, RefWorks
• Highlighting shows keywords in color within
  abstracts
• Limits select date range, subject area, or
  document type
• Display search results
• by date, relevance, author, source title, or
  times cited.

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Web of Science
Quick Reference Guide http//scientific.thomson.c
om/media/scpdf/webofscienceqrc.pdf
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Web of Science

• Coverage 1980-
• Competes with Scopus
• Includes Social Sciences Citation Index, provides
  access to
• multidisciplinary scholarly journal literature
  of the social sciences
• author abstracts
• cited references
• full text articles

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Web of Science Basic Search
To what extent should the corporal punishment of
children be considered a kind of child abuse?
corporal/physical punishment/
child/children abuse
(corporal or physical) and punishment and child
abuse
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Web of Science Basic Search
Enter terms
Limits
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Notes on WOS

• Enter search terms in search fields
• Topic, Author, Title or Publication Name
• Use quotation marks ... to look for exact
  phrases.
• Search using AND, OR, NOT and SAME (same
  sentences) to create logical search statements.
• Truncation symbols ,?, can be used to search
  for variants of words
• Nest search operators inside parentheses ( )

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Notes on WOS

• On search result list, click on the article's
  title to view its abstract other details
• May refine results by different criteria like
  subject areas, document types, languages, ...
  etc.
• Sort results by date, number of times cited,
  relevance.
• Create Personal Profile to create Saved Searches
  and
• Search Alerts.

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Search Newspapers

• International local newspapers
• New York Times, Asian Wall Street Journal,
  Business Times, The Straits Times, more
• Two major databases
• Factiva
• LexisNexis Academic

Click to view E-newspapers
Access Factiva directly
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Factiva
Discuss the effects of gaming on the mental
health of youth.
Video gaming/computer gaming /online gaming/video
games /computer games
mental health
youth/young people /teenagers/teens
(video or computer or online) and gam and mental
health and (youth or young people or teen)
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Factiva Search
Selected source has to appear here
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Factiva Result Display
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Foreign Theses

• ProQuest Dissertations Theses Database
• Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for
  Higher Degree by the Universities of Great
  Britain Ireland
• Australian Digital Theses Database

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NUS Theses Academic exercises

• Search LINC by keywords
• ph d
• m soc sc
• academic exercise

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NUS Theses Academic exercises

• Search LINC, by call no, BF21 200 (for 2000-)
  in Theses Collection.
• Note HV13 (Pre 2005)

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SingStat

• Produced by the Department of Statistics
• Covers
• Business Expectations, Commerce Services,
  Demography, Education, External Trade, Finance
  Insurance, Health, Industrial Production, Labour,
  Employment Wages, Prices, Tourism more.

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Library portal

• Resources services
• E-forms
• Document Delivery Services
• Recommend new titles
• Subject Guides
• Library Instruction ONline
• EndNote X2
• Getting Help

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Materials Not Found in Library

• Document Delivery Services (DDS)
• Journal articles, Book Chapters,
• Request via E-Forms (Library Portal)
• All requests must be approved by Supervisor

DDS
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Recommend Books for Purchasing

• E-forms
• Submit e-form for New Book
• Or email to clbfrm01_at_nus.edu.sg
• No endorsement from supervisor needed
• 4-6 weeks to process

Recommend new titles
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Subject Guides
Psychology guide
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Subject Guides

• Good starting point for research

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EndNote X2

• A software that
• stores and organizes citations found from many
  sources
• inserts these citations into a Word document
• automatically format your references according to
  a predefined citation style.
• Endnote training sessions for FASS
• Sept 24th 9am-11am, 2pm-4pm (T2)
• Sept 26th 230pm to 4pm (Training Rm)
• Register within News announcement in
• Library portal!

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Need Help?

• Advisory Service atInformation Desk,Central
  Library,Level 5
• Email me clbky_at_nus.edu.sg
• Tel [phone]

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Thank you!