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This is a presentation delivered to Year Three students on the BSc(Hons) Health and Community Studies course at University Campus Oldham (www.uco.oldham.ac.uk) in October 2013. It covers a range of information sources of interest to students starting their final year Literature Study including Summon and other University of Huddersfield databases (www.library.hud.ac.uk) and provides tips and information on effective and informed searching. Further information on UCO Library can be found at www.uco.oldham.ac.uk/library
Transcript of UCO Library: Health and Community Studies - Year Three - Literature Study
Health and Community StudiesYear Three: Literature Study
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Work to do before you search Refresher on Summon and new
features of Summon 2.0 Search for relevant journals Other health &community resources Practice (I’m here to help!)
“A good literature review is an organised, balanced and critical overview of published work relevant to the topic. “
“It should summarise the literature studied, critically comment on at least some of the sources used, and outline the current level of understanding in terms of published theory and research.”
“All the references cited should be relevant and current. A general guide is to only include references from the last 5 years, unless the work referred to is seminal, used as a historical source, or selected for any other specific reason which should be stated. You may wish to explore the currency of your sources with your supervisor.”
Dates you searched Name of search engine or system Names of the sources (database or
website) Categories, key words, limitations, etc Ways in which you broadened or
narrowed the search A comment on how many "hits" you
found
Search terms
Think about alternatives Think about phrases Think broadly Think more specifically
http://thesaurus.com/
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/english-thesaurus
Books/ebooks/websites/newspapers etc may not be suitable to use in your Literature Study but will help you understand the subject AND help you with Search Terms
Limit by date range Sort by date order Limit by item type (ebooks, journal
articles, etc) Use Advanced Search to search in
different fields (title, abstract, etc)
On the results page, click the Downarrow next to the Search button
Searching inside the title or abstract of an article helps to narrow your results
Use “phrase searching” to be more specific
Use truncation to broadenyour results
Search multiple variations of the same word, eg.
CommunicationCommunicationsCommunicatedCommunicates
Use the asterisk* to say:
I want anything that starts like this…
For child, children, childhood, child’s, childcare
Here’s the tricky bit....Where do you put the asterisk?
Communication
Communicat*CommunicationCommunicationsCommunicatingCommunicated
Use with caution!
Comm*
Communication*
Community, Communism, Commentary
You won’t get Communicated, Communicating
Use with caution!
Remember, you are broadening your search
You may get too much!
Be specific
Put it in “quotation marks”
“Residential care”and
“Elderly people”
“Misdiagnosis of dementia and it’s impact on residential care in North
West England”
Use with caution!
This is a sentence, not a phrase!
Putting individual words in quotation marks is “no”
benefit at all.
Think broadly (what would relevant journals be called?)
Think laterally (think of all the relevant disciplines)
Social work in health care Health and social care in the community Journal of youth and adolescence Child & youth services Children and youth services review Health promotion practice International journal of health promotion and
education
Choose a journal (or find one yourself) and try searching inside it for articles
*Example from CINAHL
The articles that this author has referenced
The articles that have referenced this article
http://hud.libguides.com/
Search for databases by titleorbrowse by subject area
Think about your subject… Which is the closest matching
discipline (Nursing? Social Work? Sociology?)
Choose a discipline to find lots of useful databases and links to websites
Listed under Nursing: CINAHL Medline
Listed under Social Work Social Care Online Community Care Inform
There’s no easy answer!
Picture courtesy of Hannah K on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/90692443@N05/
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/ResearchPortfolio/index.htm
NB: Not updated since June 2010!!
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/impacts-and-findings/research-catalogue/index.aspx
http://doaj.org
These journals are freely published, but high quality and peer reviewed
http://doaj.org
Some of these journals you will find on Summon, but not all – it’s worth
a search
Photo courtesy of Marco Bellucci on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcobellucci/
Thanks for listening!
