Research with Non-Legal Databases Jennifer Allison, Research Services Librarian Harvard Law School Library April 10, 2015 Photo: Marina Noordegraff, Flickr, Creative Commons License

Research Topic: How have psychological and sociological factors influenced our feelings about regulation of data protection and privacy for financial and medical data?

TODAY Brainstorm Google Scholar ScienceDirect PsycINFO Photo: Amber Case, Flickr, Creative Commons License

Which academic subjects relate to this topic? Photo: Luigi Mengato, Flickr, Creative Commons License Which academic subjects relate to this topic?

On Campus: https://scholar.google.com Off Campus: http://hollis.harvard.edu; sign in; search for Google Scholar; use provided link.

Tips: Limit search results by date. Remember, Google Scholar may try to add “related” keywords to the search, returning non- relevant results.

Tips: Don’t stop at 3 pages. Google Scholar isn’t smart enough to know what exactly you think is relevant. “Relevancy” is a moving target. Run searches more than once over the course of your research.

Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/ Advanced Search: “data privacy” in Abstracts

Issues Coming Into Focus: Is our topic too broad? Are we finding helpful individual journals? Computer Law & Security Review?

Getting There: http://hollis. harvard Getting There: http://hollis.harvard.edu > Databases Tab > Quick Jump Menu > PsycINFO Advanced Search: “data privacy” in Abstracts

More Emerging Issues: Where are the articles about data privacy for financial data? Business databases? Dissertations? Use the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database.

Research Tips Keep a running list of keywords as your read and learn more about the topic, and use them for new searches. Photo: Brad K., Flickr, Creative Commons License

Research Tips Limiting searches to abstracts and article titles means you’ll get fewer, more relevant results. You might also miss stuff. Photo: Brad K., Flickr, Creative Commons License

Research Tips Are you seeing the same authors over and over? University professors have profile websites, often with bibliographies. Photo: Brad K., Flickr, Creative Commons License

Research Tips Always check for citing references! Photo: Brad K., Flickr, Creative Commons License

Research Tips Pretty soon you’re going to figure out your topic is too broad. That’s okay! You can’t narrow without educating yourself. Photo: Brad K., Flickr, Creative Commons License

Research Tips Explore fearlessly! You won’t break the computer or the internet by doing database searches. Photo: Brad K., Flickr, Creative Commons License

Research Tips Explore intelligently! Don’t click before your read. Photo: Brad K., Flickr, Creative Commons License

Research Tips Use library research guides. Harvard’s are at http://guides.library.harvard.edu/. Photo: Brad K., Flickr, Creative Commons License

Research Tips Reference librarians are really good at offering judgment-free assistance. Visit http://asklib.law.harvard.edu. Photo: Brad K., Flickr, Creative Commons License