Module 7: Using Other Research Sources and Citation Managers

1. Module 7: Using Other Research Sources and Citation Managers

2. Objectives: At the end of this module, you will be able to: • Locate subject specific resources accessed through ESU; • Describe the features, content, search capabilities and information about a subject specific academic database; • Define federated searching; • Describe the concept of citation searching; • Conduct citation searches in a variety of sources; • Define government publications; • Understand and utilize citation software; • Give examples of or identify other research resources.

3. Sometimes finding research information is difficult!

4. Know where you’ve been (Research Process) • Get a working knowledge of your topic; • Assess the research topic, narrow it, come up with an analytical research question and suggest a preliminary outline; • Do a search in a library catalog, using keywords and controlled vocabulary; • Do a search for journal articles; • Make a judicious search of Internet resources.

5. Other options: Fulltext reference resources • Oxford Reference Premium - http://0-www.oxfordreference.com.www.whitelib.emporia.edu/ • Credo Reference - http://0-www.credoreference.com.www.whitelib.emporia.edu/ • CQ Researcher - http://0-library.cqpress.com.www.whitelib.emporia.edu/cqresearcher • Opposing Viewpoints - http://0-infotrac.galegroup.com.www.whitelib.emporia.edu/itweb/empsu_main?db=OVRC • Gale Virtual Reference Library - http://0-find.galegroup.com.www.whitelib.emporia.edu/gvrl/start.do?prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=empsu_main

6. Subject Specific VS. General Academic Databases Subject Specific Database General Databases • Provides information from many disciplines; • Coverage is not as comprehensive as a subject specific resource; • Good for multi-disciplinary searching; • Helps find information where the discipline is unclear; • Can be used to find information on most general topics; • Useful when browsing or beginning a research process; • Level of resources varies and may include scholarly sources along with popular sources. • Provide content within a specific discipline or subject area; • Comprehensive coverage in that field; • Usually scholarly and technical; • Used for in-depth research; • Uses subject specific language; • Audience needs some knowledge of the field.

7. Accessing ESU Databases Subject listing of Databases: http://www.emporia.edu/libsv/library-resources/databases/electronic-databases-by-subject.html

8. Examples of Subject specific Resources available through ESU • News • Lexis Nexis Academic • Kansas Newspapers • Newspaper Source Plus • Psychology • PsycInfo • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences collection • Social Sciences • History Reference Center • Criminal Justice Fulltext • Literature • Literary Reference Center • MLA Bibliography • Health / Physical Education • Physical Education Index • SportDiscus Art • Oxford Art Online • Art Fulltext Business • ABI/Inform • Business Source Premier • FIS Mergent • Lexis-Nexis Academic Education • Education Fulltext • Education Research Complete • ERIC Legal • Lexis-Nexis Academic • Legal Collection Library & Information Science • Library Literature • LISTA Life Science • Agricola • Biological Abstracts • BioOne Medicine and Health • PubMed or Medline • Cinahl • ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health • Consumer Health Complete Music • Oxford Music Online • RIPM / RILM

9. Federated Searching Add or Select Databases • Allows you to search several resources at one time; • The ESU Discovery catalog is an example of a Federated Search • Advanced search allows you to Add / Remove database to search (still a work in progress)

10. Other resources: eric • http://www.eric.ed.gov/ • Repository of educational materials, but the field of education is interested in a lot of topics so the scope is broad. • 2 Parts: ED – Reports on Research and EJ – Journal Articles • ERIC contains journal articles, books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers and other education-related materials • Some of the ERIC documents published since 2004 are in the resource in fulltext others such as the journal articles are just citation information and abstracts

11. Other resources: Government documents • A government document is “informational matter which is published at government expense, or as required by law” (Cassell & Hiremath, 2009, p. 249). • Governments at all levels publish information: local, state and federal • Government publications cover lots of different topics: statistics, nutrition, education, history, census information, etc… • Depository program helps to make documents available to the public through libraries – Many libraries receive Gov. Docs. In this technological age, many documents are available electronically. • To find government publications by subject, search USA.gov at http://usa.gov, the Federal Digital System - http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/ or go directly to the Agency websites such as the Smithsonian Institution or NASA.

12. Other resources: Dissertations / Theses • Original Research by PhD and Masters students to fulfill their requirements for their degree • Many are hard to access because they are not owned by too many libraries • Some are available through Institutional Repositories • Many go on to publish their findings or information in articles or books • May be either primary or secondary literature, depending upon the research

13. Pearl growing • Find articles or resources that are great for your topic; • Use the bibliographies or works cited in the relevant articles to lead to other resources; • Do a Google Scholar search for the articles and use the cited by feature or the related articles feature to find more resources. • Use the Cited References search feature in the EBSCO Host Databases like Academic Search Premier

14. Using Google Scholar to Find More Resources - http://scholar.google.com Search by the title of an article that is good for your topic or research Cited By Feature – articles that have cited that article Related Articles – uses key terms to find similar sources

15. Cited References Searching in Other sources – (Academic Search Premier) This number indicates how many references are cited in this article. By clicking on it, you can get to those citations. Click here to get similar results

16. Or another way … Click here to get to the 32 articles cited by this article. Click here to get similar results

17. Searching for Cited References Click on the Cited References Link to get to the search screen. • You can also search some databases for Cited References using a cited author, source, title, or year. • The results will be displayed. • Articles with Check boxes are cited by other articles • Articles without check boxes have not been cited by other articles • From the Cited Reference sub page, you can mark check boxes and retrieve a list of the citing articles. Search Screen for Cited References Mark articles and click on Find Citing Articles to see what articles have cited a particular article.

18. People resources • Friends and other peers (Use with caution) • Mentors such as professors: subject experts • Librarians: research experts