health theories & behaviour: finding articles eyates march 2014

Health & behaviour:

finding articles

Elizabeth Yates, Health Sciences

LibrarianMarch 2014

Today’s outcomes

You will recall strategies for:• Finding articles using keywords,

synonyms, and exact phrase searching in SuperSearch

• Using the Health Sciences Research Guide as a portal to scholarly information resources

• Pros and cons of Google Scholar

Think like a search engine

>> keywords>> synonyms>> exact phrase

What’s a keyword?

-usually a noun-main concepts in research topic-word versus phrases/sentences-start with 1-2 keywords; add more to focus search

Topic: Theory + content/context

e.g. “Theory of planned behaviour” + diet

Strategy: search your theory as an exact phrase and pair with keyword(s) for your

content area

Think of content synonyms e.g. diet:• nutrition• food• eating

Research Guide for Health Sciences– Library website > left nav menu

“Research Guides by Program”– Find articles tab

Find articles

Pro Tip: Use this guide as your one-

stop shop for scholarly information

resources

Best bet: SuperSearch

1. Refine your results: select “Scholarly (Peer-reviewed) Journals”

2. Slide the Publication Date to adjust time period

3. Select “Subject” to find results focused on a specific aspect of your topic

4. Use “quotes” to search for an exact phrase5. Use * to search for variations of a word

ending e.g. behav*(behaviour, behavior)6. Add another keyword to find results

focused on a specific aspect of your topic

Pro Tips: save time

>Find a good article? Check the subject/keywords, references and “cited by” for clues to other good articles: save time! >Scroll down: first result may not be the best

Google Scholar & SuperSearch

Google Scholar SuperSearch

-broad scope-don’t know where you are searching

-few options for focused searching

-broad scope-you can discover what journals are being searched-many options for focused searching e.g. by subject, format, title, abstract etc.

Pro Tip: Both tools are great – choose the one that’s best for your search

Google Scholar Research Guide for Health Sciences– Library website > left nav menu “Research

Guides by Program”• http://researchguides.library.brocku.ca/CHS

• Find Articles tab• Google Scholar• Advanced

search (pull down tab)

TIP: Click “More” for copy & paste citation

Help with APA style

Research Guide for Health Sciences– Library website > left nav menu

“Research Guides by Program”• http://researchguides.library.brocku.ca/CHS

• Writing and Citing tab

Getting help

• Chat/text/email us

• Visit our Help Desk

• Click on the Help tab to

search topics by Category• Contact me:

eyates@brocku.ca

Summing up