health theories & behaviour: finding articles eyates march 2014
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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:
Summing up