speech-language pathology, research methods 696

Resources & Research Strategies for Speech-Language Pathology 696

Susan Luévano, Librarian

Today’s Objectives:

Learn research search strategies Examine useful electronic resources

for Speech-Language Pathology Learn how to get research assistance Two activities:

Search ComDisDome, MEDLINE, PubMed & CINAHL Dissecting databases

Tips for your search strategy

Develop a thesis statement

Describe your topic with keywords

Find out if the database has specific headings that might better define your topic. Most databases have a subject thesaurus or controlled vocabulary (like MeSH for MEDLINE).

Search Tips (Continued)

Formulate your search by breaking your topic into variables Example: Auditory perceptual disorders in children born prematurely vs. full term.Tip: You do not have to search every word.

prematureFull term

Auditory perceptual disorders

Search Tips (Continued) Create search statements using Boolean operators

AND narrows a searchExample: auditory perceptual disorders and child*

OR broadens a searchExample: auditory perceptual disorders or central auditory dysfunction or word deafness

NOT excludes terms from a search Example: children not adults

Search Tips (Continued) Combining terms using Boolean Operators

Auditory perceptual disordersand infant premature and full term

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Search Tips (Continued) Truncation

Truncation symbols or wildcards or plural searching(examples: *, #, !, ?, +)

Allows you to search for terms with multiple endings

e.g. diabet* searches for diabetes, diabetic

e.g. student* searches for student, students

Search Tips (Continued)

What to do if you get too much?Limit options, e.g. age, geography, ethnicity, genderField searching, e.g. subject headings, date, languageCombine searches or add more concepts

What to do if you get too few?Eliminate concepts/use broader topicRelated articles (PubMed, Get it @CSULB)Cited references

Search Tips (Continued) Once you figure out what type of Information you need, you have to choose the best place to find it.

Books ArticlesScholarly or

popular

Internet

Finding Articles

Use a research database Library pays for your access Search databases to find citations &

or full-text

START HERE

Speech/Language Pathology LibGuide Portal to your information needs

ComDiscDome CINAHL – Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature MEDLINE PubMed – boolean operators in caps, related articles link ERIC Academic Search Elite PsycInfo Cochrane Library – evidence based medicine ScienceDirect Wiley InterScience

Finding Articles

Search database and evaluate results• Scholarly v. popular• Too much or too little or not appropriate

Find full text using the citation• Check Get it @ CSULB• Check COAST

Get from BeachReach,if needed• Online form in COAST• Free • Usually receive in hours

Click on the Get it @ CSULB icon

BeachReach

BeachReach

ComDisDome

Primary discipline database Covers the communication

disorders literature, with focus on speech-language pathology and audiology

Updated monthly

PubMed@CSULB

Includes MEDLINE Free version Boolean operators in caps

AND, OR, NOT Lists similar & related articles Basic & Advanced search

Journal Article Citation: A Review

Author (s)Article TitleJournal TitleVolume #(Issue #)Page #Date

= Citation

PubMed@CSULB

MEDLINE Uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings Has Get it@CSULB feature Indexes medical journals 1951- Updated monthly

CINAHL Plus with Full-Text Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature

Contains citations and sometimes abstracts & full-text from scholarly nursing & allied health journals, book chapters, government documents, dissertations, etc.

Some records include the cited references

Dissertation & Theses

1997 – full-text Search by discipline, keyword or institutional

affiliation Contains the full text of CSULB thesis from

1996– More Search Options

Universities/Institutions

Dissecting & comparing databases

Answer the following for ComDisDome & PubMed:• Can you search by fields - keywords, subject,

author, article title, journal title - and how do you switch to other fields?

Are there any limit options?

What is the truncation symbol?

Does it have Get It @CSULB?

Is there a Help link?

COAST CSULB Library catalog

Search for books, e-books, journals, government documents, reserves

Get materials from other libraries Use Link+ to get books from 30+ libraries

Get Library PIN number to connect from home Click on “View My Library Record” and follow the directions If you have problems with your PIN – visit the Circulation Desk

Finding a SLP thesis in Coast

Advanced Keyword Search Long Beach thesis Department: Communicative Disorders Your topic

Tests & Measures: LibGuide

http://csulb.libguides.com/edlead?p=249286

SAGE Research Methods Online (SRM)

Excellent source for research methodology “how to” Provides links to SAGE’s renowned books (e.g. entire Little Green

Book and entire Little Blue Book, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks), journal and reference content.

Green books focus on quantitative methods Blue books focus on qualitative methods 

Useful Citing Sites

Internal citation generatorsRefWorks

What is it? Powerful online research management, writing and

collaboration tool designed to help researchers at all levels easily gather, organize, store and share all types of information and to instantly generate citations and bibliographies.

Why should you use it? Saves you mega time and energy Allow easy manipulation of data Long term preservation of your research Free!!!

Thing you need to do to get access from your home

This box will pop up when you click on a research database from home:

Need Research Help?

Speech-Language Pathology LibGuidehttp://csulb.libguides.com/cd

Susan Luévano until HS Librarian is hiredSusan.luevano@csulb.eduOffice hours: Wed. 2:30-4:30 PM Library 4th floor, room 416

Research & Information DeskChat with a Librarian 24/7

http://www.csulb.edu/library/247ref.htmlOnline Library video clips/coming soon!Health Science Librarian starts in October