speech-language pathology, research methods 696
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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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1,797
5,472
8,413
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 [email protected] hours: Wed. 2:30-4:30 PM Library 4th floor, room 416
Research & Information DeskChat with a Librarian 24/7
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