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Contact Information Tom Schmiedel Room 103 Haas Library

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Off campus access (two options) 4

Written Resources Online and/or Print An Ocean of Resources 5

Scholarly VS Popular Writing 6

Scholarly vs Popular Writing Characteristics ScholarlyPopular 7

Scholarly vs Popular Writing ScholarlyPopular 8

Primary and Secondary Resources 9

The Flow of Information

The Assignment 11

The Assignment First, read Angell’s article, The Crazy State of Psychiatry”The Crazy State of Psychiatry Second, read over Sally Small’s commentary Third, “In a five-to-seven page paper defend, refute, or qualify Small’s statement.” 12

1.If what Angell writes is correct, she is far too lame about what ought to be done to remedy the unholy alliance of psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies. 2.The response of the FDA has actually made the problem worse by concealing the true nature of drug trials. 13 Sally Small’s Comments

3.Both psychiatrists and drug companies must face more severe penalties for their questionable practices. 4.After writing a searing indictment, Angell settles for very mild remedies for the abuses she describes. 14 Sally Small’s Comments

The Assignment (continued) Investigate the charges that Small has made and offer substantial reasons for whatever judgment you make of Small’s opinion. A good paper will focus on one facet of Angell’s indictment to show whether Small is correct in her judgment when that facet is considered 15

The Assignment (continued) Compile a working bibliography of ten sources that you might use in this paper Include – Four citations to peer-reviewed journal articles – A book – Magazine or newspaper articles and websites. 16

Before you start searching… Identify a research question/topic … – What question do you want to ask/answer? – Make a list of key terms and synonyms … – You can revise it as your search progresses … 17

Search Strategy 18

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Where to Look for Information? Google? (websites and other formats) Google Scholar? (mostly scholarly?) Library Databases (mostly journals, some magazines) Library catalog (books) 21

Google Search 22

Google Search 23

Undue Pharmaceutical Influence on Psychiatric Practice psychiatric-practice psychiatric-practice 24

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Databases Organized collection of documents Articles, reports, book reviews, books, and more … Articles – Peer reviewed journals – Others (magazines, newspapers) Has tools to help you successfully locate what you need 26

Databases (also called article databases, index or index/abstract databases) PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, PubMed, Medline, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. Getting the actual article Some databases – (a) provide the actual article within the database – (b) link out to the article somewhere outside of the database – (c) do not provide the article (in which case one needs to use interlibrary loan ILL) Don’t forget to get the citations 27

Academic Search Premier 28

Databases (also called article databases, index or index/abstract databases) Articles are indexed in databases fields. – Similar to index of words/subjects/topics in back of a book Generally, one uses search terms in fields: – Title field – Abstract field – Author field – keyword, topic, subject, and full-text are other fields. Controlled Vocabulary – Agreed upon terminology to be used in describe articles or books (Ex. dog instead of canine) 29

Getting to the databases 30

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Subject Databases 32

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Advanced Search 35

Search Terms ~448K results ~752K results ~567K results Results of searches for individual terms 36 psychiatry pharmaceutical ethics

“Boolean” Search - AND psychiatry AND pharmaceutical = only area common to both terms ~ 44K results 37 psychiatrypharmaceutical

Boolean AND psychiatry AND pharmaceutical AND ethics = ~ 6K results only area common to all 3 terms 38 psychiatrypharmaceutical ethics

Boolean Searching (simple vs. advanced) ~448K results (search - all fields) ~ 8K results (advanced search in title) 39 psychiatry

Boolean AND psychiatry AND pharmaceutical = only area common to both ~ 44K results (all fields) 11 results (title only) 40 psychiatrypharmaceutical

Boolean AND psychiatry AND pharmaceutical AND ethics = only area common to all ~6K results (all fields) ~ 0 results (title only) 41 psychiatry pharmaceutical ethics

Boolean AND 42 PharmaceuticalDrugs

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Boolean OR 44 PharmaceuticalDrugs

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Database Searching 48

Searching within Full-text Searching within Full-text: 6K results NOT searching within full-text: 151 results 49

Example Article: Article Record 50

Example Article: Abstract 51

Example Article: Full-text (PDF in this case) 52

Psychiatry in Abstract Field 53

Psychiatry in Title Field 54

Article Record 55

Journal Finder 56

Interlibrary Loan 57

Interlibrary Loan 58

Iliad (For Interlibrary Loan) 59

Subject Search “Controlled Vocabulary” 60

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Limit by Subjects 65

Citations 66

Reference/Citations MLA Format 67

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Contact Information Tom Schmiedel Room 103 Haas Library