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Lesson
One: Defining Your Topic
Lesson Two: Finding Periodical Articles
Lesson Three: Finding Web Sites
Lesson Four:
Evaluating Web Sites
Lesson
Five: Finding
Books
Lesson
Six: Evaluating Information
Lesson Seven: Citing Your Sources
HCC
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Tutorial
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Tired of weeding through junk results on the
Internet? Take advantage of the periodical databases that Highline's
library has purchased especially for you.
Periodical databases, such as ProQuest, contain
quality articles that have been written, selected and edited by
professionals. These articles have also been assigned subject terms
and include abstracts, short summaries of the articles.
In contrast, free web sites are inconsistent in
quality and may have questionable credibility.
In the field of psychology, new research is
published in scholarly journal articles. These research based
articles describe:
- methodology
- results & conclusion
- bibliography (list of other sources consulted)
 Check your understanding
ProQuest and
E-psyche are excellent
places to research psychology topics.
Search Tips for
Periodical Databases
Boolean Operators & Truncation
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Use AND to combine different key concepts |
Example: ADD and adults
Retrieves articles with both ADD & adults. |
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Use OR with synonyms or related words |
Example: adolescent or teen
Retrieves articles with either or both words. |
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? or * Truncation
symbol |
Example: psycholog?
Retrieves all the possible endings for the root
psycholog including psychology, psychological,
psychologists, psychologist etc.child*
retrieves all the possible endings for the
root child including children, child's
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Check the Peer-reviewed Publications
box to
get journal articles only.
Sample journal article from ProQuest
Searching for a normal life: Personal accounts of adults with
Schizophrenia, their parents and well-siblings American Journal of Community Psychology; New York;
Oct 2001; Catherine H Stein; Virginia A. Wemmerus 29(5):725-46.
Sample Magazine Article
Young and depressed
Newsweek; New York; Oct 7, 2002 Pat Wingert and
Barbara Kantrowitz.
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Password: raven.
PsycArticles -
provides
full-text articles in psychology journals.
Sample journal citation
and abstract
Mood and spatial memory: emotion and right
hemisphere contribution to spatial cognition.
Degrandpre, D.; Mcdougal, L.; Tucker, D.M.; Biological Psychology. Vol
47(1), Jan (1998). (pp. 103-125). [Journal Article]
Abstract: Depressed persons show an
impairment of spatial cognition that may reflect the
influence of affective arousal on right
hemisphere cognition. We examined normal university students to determine
whether individual differences in mood and arousal levels would be related
to performance on a spatial memory task.
Right-hemisphere specialization for this spatial
memory task was confirmed by a left field advantage for the targets
and this field asymmetry was enhanced as task difficulty was increased.
Event-related brain potentials (ERPs), assessed with a 64-channel sensor
array, showed a processing negativity contralateral to the target in the
P300 interval (300-500 ms after the target appeared). This effect
increased as task difficulty was increased ...
Check your understanding
Magazines vs. Journal articles
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Journals |
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Audience – general public
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Color
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Advertisements
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Written by staff or freelance
journalists in simple language.
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Audience – experts
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Black & white
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Few ads
Graphs & statistics
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Bibliography & references to
other sources
Written by expert researchers
in technical language.
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Remember to ask me or another librarian if
you need help formulating your search strategy.
Next
Tutorial
Home | 1.
Defining Your Topic | 2. Finding Periodical Articles
| 3. Finding Web Sites
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4. Evaluating Web Sites
| 5. Finding Books
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Evaluating Information | 7.Citing your Sources
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HCC
Library
Karen Fernandez, Reference
Librarian
kfernand@highline.edu or (206)
878-3710 x3809
06/30/2004
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