1. Literature Searching Tips & Techniques MSc Social Psychology This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike 2.5 License.Creative Commons Attribution- ShareAlike 2.5 License

2. Session content Finding journals and journal articles Search strategy & tips Databases for Social Psychology Using Google for research Further help

3. Planning a search © Netskills Quality Internet Training, University of Newcastle

4. Still undecided on your topic? Brainstorming: List all the keywords which could describe your topic Identify synonyms & alternative spellings Formulate a ‘research question’ Are they any key papers already published? Any key authors? Hot topic or dead duck? Run a quick search in a database/ library catalogue to scope material

5. Essay questions 1. How does organisational culture impact on working practices and processes? 2. The modern corporation is as good an example of ‘disciplinary power’ as the modern penal system. Discuss. 3. Discuss the extent to which Taylor’s “scientific management” principles are present in current organisational management practices. 4. Knowledge is the organisation’s essential source of ‘competitive advantage’. Discuss? 5. Resistance stimulates organisational learning. Discuss.

6. Search tips for individual database searching AND &, + – combines terms. Narrows results OR, – locates results containing either of the terms. Use ‘or’ for synonyms. Useful for US/UK Spellings. Broadens results NOT – excludes terms. Discards results that contain your excluded term (even if the results contain your chosen search term) Phrases – enclose in quotation marks “third way” Truncation – replaces multiple characters at the end of a word, e.g. pension*– finds pensioner, pensions, pensioned Wild card – replaces a single character organi?ation – locates either spelling, e.g. wom?n finds woman and women ; wom* finds both along with womb, wombat, womble etc. Check help pages for the correct symbol. Can be * ! + $

7. What type of information do you need? Journal articles, books, theses? Conference reports? Government reports? Very recent material? Historical? English language? UK or International? Peer reviewed or Practitioner, Trade, Commercial? Statistical Data? Our Data Librarian can help Archives? Web or other sources? Find what’s out there-don’t just restrict to LSE holdings

8. Identifying books / printed materials LSE Library Catalogue Printed bibliographies/indices Search other Libraries catalogues http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/otherLibraries/Home.aspx COPAC: Large research Libraries, including the British Library http://copac.ac.uk/http://copac.ac.uk/ Library of Congress http://catalog.loc.gov/http://catalog.loc.gov/ National Library catalogues for overseas materials WorldCat (via catalogue/subject pages) Catalogues of specialist Libraries e.g. Wellcome Library Websites of specialist organisations Amazon

9. Journal articles Library Catalogue – journal title level not articles Full text online journal databases e.g. Oxford Journals, JSTOR but only limited to what is available in full text on a specific databases. If only searched full text services would miss out on literature.

10. Main Resources PsycINFO & PsycARTICLES International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) ISI Web of Knowledge/Science Scopus Science Direct: Medical & Health Business Source Complete Human Resources Abstracts Communication Abstracts

11. PsycINFO From American Psychological Association’s (APA) Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to present, includes international material

12. PsycARTICLES Also part of EBSCO databases Complements PsychINFO – can be searched together From American Psychological Association (APA) Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology

13. IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Premium Social Sciences Index- references journal articles, books, chapters and book reviews. Links to full text articles via Article Finder Good foreign language coverage Results can be imported into Endnote Searches can be saved to rerun at a later date Date range: 1951- Updated Weekly

14. ISI Citation Indices via the Web of Knowledge Science, Social Science & Arts and Humanities available Abstracts and references to journal articles and book reviews Links to full text articles via Article Finder Enables citation searching in addition to searching by keyword Results can be exported into EndNote Searches can be saved to rerun at a later date

15. The Internet is…. A fabulous source of information, and full of information that can be used in place of books and journals. However, there are problems…. There is no central index There is no quality standards or peer review Information can: be moved or removed without warning be wrong, out of date and biased be overwhelming!

16. Internet Evaluation Criteria Who? Name & responsibilities Contact details Individual or organisation? Where? Domain-check the URLs for an indication of the type of organisations who created the site.edu.ac.gov all educational or governmental sites.com commercial site When? When was the site last updated What? Serious or hoax? Evidence? Internet Detective site

17. Getting the most out of Google involves understanding a bit about how it works – and try the advanced search Tips for improving your searching Capitals / lower case Automatic use of ‘and’ Automatic word stemming

18. Google’s Interface The interface changes subtly all the time Depends on where you are in the world, and which version you went to (www.google.com or.co.uk/.de etc)www.google.com Basic homepage with advanced options available: ‘Show options’ Advanced Search

19. Results pages Indenting of some results Clustering of links within a site Google Books and Scholar results in the main Google results Cached pages Different results if you’re logged in Twitter feed results Some results are seconds old, from twitter and Facebook News results (like from the BBC are often minutes old Others can be weeks old.

20. Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ References to peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Should indicate using LSE Article finder to tell you about LSE subscriptions No approved list of sources

21. Should indicate using LSE Article Finder to tell you about LSE subscriptions. You can add this off campus If you find something on Google that won’t let you access, check our Library Catalogue for the correct link – using Google may mean that you aren’t recognised as a member of LSE Google Scholar and LSE

22. Getting hold of material not at LSE Senate House Library-Can borrow materials and use online resources Join with your LSE card British Library Join with 2 forms of ID (proof of address & proof of signature) All titles to be consulted in the BL Reading Rooms Inter Library Loan Via the Library Classic Catalogue Select the Requests & Interlending option

23. Managing your information: Keep track of it Note full information at point of use Nothing worse than trying to identify material months afterwards Note ALL details not just author/title Helps avoid plagiarism Note your search strategies so as to rerun at a later date LSE Library Catalogue - My Favourites Consider using Endnote for storing references-also formats bibliographies automatically Other options Delicious, Zotero, Cite-U-Like

24. Further Help Social Psychology Guide http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/subjectGuide s/psychology/Home.aspx Workshops https://library- 1.lse.ac.uk/course/ https://library- 1.lse.ac.uk/course/ Students Companion Students Companion & Researchers Companion in MoodleResearchers Companion 1-2-1 research consultations with Academic Support Librarian