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L A K S A M E E P U T N A M
L P U T N A M @ T O W S O N . E D U
R E S E A R C H & I N S T R U C T I O N L I B R A R I A N
GERO 101: The Research Process
Slides: http://bit.ly/sp2014geroslides
How can I help you?
Laksamee Putnam
lputnam@towson.edu
Cook Library Reference:
410.704.2462.
IM/email
Phone: 410.704.3746.
Twitter: @CookLibraryofTU
Albert S. Cook facebook profile!
Slides: http://bit.ly/sp2014geroslides
A quick plug…
National Library of Medicine – Yellow Paper exhibit 3rd Floor
During a time when women were challenging traditional ideas about gender that excluded them from political and intellectual life, artist and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who was discouraged from pursuing a career to preserve her health, rejected these ideas in a terrifying short story titled "The Yellow Wall-Paper."
Agenda
Scholarly vs Popular
How to formulate a search
Finding Books/Articles
APA Citations
Hands on database practice
Scholarly vs Popular
Scholarly
Example 1
Example 2
Popular
Example 1
Example 2
Scholarly vs Popular
Scholarly
Written by an expert for other experts
Support your argument with high quality information
Popular
Entertaining but lack depth
Grab people’s interests but should not be your only resource
Scholarly vs Popular
DuckDuckGo (2012). There are no “regular results” on Google anymore.
http://vimeo.com/duckduckgo/bubble
Formulating a Keyword Search
1. Choose a Topic
In your groups decide on a topic, write it on the whiteboard!
Formulating a Keyword Search
1. Choose a Topic
End of life care of elderly
Formulating a Keyword Search
2. Narrow/Broaden your search
Consider your group topic, break it up
Create a few possible subtopics
Formulating a Keyword Search
2. Narrow/Broaden your search
Elderly depression in end of life care
Formulating a Keyword Search
3. Identify the key concepts
Take one of your subtopics and write keywords describing it
Formulating a Keyword Search
3. Identify the key concepts
Elder
Depression
End of life care
Formulating a Keyword Search
4. Consider synonyms/alternative spellings for terms
How else can you describe your topic, write down synonyms
Formulating a Keyword Search
4. Consider synonyms/alternative spellings for terms Elder
Elder*
Senior
Aged
Older person
Older adult
Depression
hopelessness
End of life care
Palliative care
Terminal care
Formulating a Keyword Search
5. Formulate your search utilizing various combinations of your words
String them together using AND/OR/NOT
Truncate *
Any “phrases”?
Formulating a Keyword Search
6. Evaluate what you find
Check for CRAP
Currency
Reliability
Authority
Purpose/Point of View
Examples
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Autism and Vaccines
3 ways to find Books
http://cooklibrary.towson.edu
Towson Books
USMAI Books
Interlibrary Loan
Finding Articles
Go to the Gerontology Subject Gateway
Numerous databases to choose from
Search more than one
Use your keywords and refine your search
Plagiarism
Using someone’s ideas or expression of those ideas (words, pictures, music, etc)
Without giving proper credit
It’s out there, why not reuse it?
Acknowledge where you found the information
Support your argument
Allows others to find additional information
Watson, M. (2013, March 4) Copyright – the right to copy? Lariushin’s monographs of plant families. Botanic Stories. Retrieved from http://stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/1321
APA Style
Help Guide
APA book is available in the library
OWL or Diane Hacker
Science Student. [Photographer]. Retrieved from Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest.http://quest.eb.com/images/115_2674314
APA style
Journal Article:
Author last name, first initial(s). (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, Volume(issue), pages. doi:xxxxxx
Book:
Author last name, first initial(s). (Year). Book title. Publication information: place (city and state abbreviation), publisher’s name.
Let’s start searching!
Research your topic with your group!
Begin by filling out this online spreadsheet
http://bit.ly/sp2014gerows
After you are done please go here to send me feedback on this session
http://bit.ly/VLiBPh
Questions?
Feel free to contact me:
Laksamee Putnam
lputnam@towson.edu
410.704.3746.
Twitter: @LibrarianLaks
Or any reference librarian:
Visit Cook Library Reference Desk
410.704.2462.
IM – tucookchat
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