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Tips for successful literature searching (and referencing)

Tips for successful literature searching (and referencing). Top tips for finding literature. Using iFind Discover . Read your assignment title a few times. Decide what it is that you need to look for. Write down keywords which describe what you need to find.

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Tips for successful literature searching (and referencing)

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  1. Tips for successful literature searching (and referencing)

  2. Top tips for finding literature... Using iFind Discover • Read your assignment title a few times. • Decide what it is that you need to look for. • Write down keywords which describe what you need to find. • Think about what filters you need to apply (language, publication date, quality of information). • Where are you going to look? • How are you going to manage the stuff you find?

  3. Let’s do an example together... Using iFind Discover You have been asked to write an assignment and part of the assignment asks you to look at: …the paramedic’s role in relation to communicating effectively in clinical practice.

  4. Research Topic:the paramedic’s role in relation to communicating effectively in clinical practice

  5. Research Topic:the paramedic’s role in relation to communicating effectively in clinical practice

  6. Research Topic:the paramedic’s role in relation to communicating effectively in clinical practice

  7. Why can’t I just use Google? • Quality matters! • You will be expected to only use reputable, trustworthy information in your assignments from sources such as: • academic library books • scholarly journal articles

  8. Where are you going to search... Your reading list on Blackboard Google Scholar iFindResearch Specific journals you know of i.e.: journal of Paramedic practice Specific websites (eg: Welsh Government) CINAHL Reference lists

  9. Referencing tips: Take good notes • Find stuff to use: books, journal articles, reports, statistics, websites.... • How will you keep track of your material? • Make a detailed record of these: ideally from the original (page numbers) • Note the right info for the type of document (see your guidelines)

  10. Referencing tips: Follow instruction 2. Follow instructions.... • ...preferably the right ones • Usually guidance from your tutor / on Blackboard / in your module handbook • What kind of reference list do you need to provide? • What style should you use? (APA) • APA guides available in Library Support for Health Sciences on Blackboard

  11. Referencing tips: Pay attention to detail 3. Pay attention to detail... • ...teeny, tiny, irritating detail • Everything matters! • Italics • Commas, and dots. • Initials vs full names • & not “and”

  12. Referencing tips: Accept the inevitable 4. Accept the inevitable • The guidelines will lack the one example you need! (You can reference all kinds of weird things) • Where can you get help? • Ask a librarian (healthlib@swansea.ac.uk) • Read the APA Manual • Ask whoever marks your work

  13. Referencing tips: Find something to do it for you 5. Find something to do it for you Reference management software will store and format references for you • EndNote (Swansea Uni sub/Free basic version) • Mendeley (free) • Zotero (free) • Word reference tab But you still need to check it carefully!

  14. What does APA referencing involve? • Citations in the body of your work • Reference list at the end: alphabetical order by author • Formatted correctly according to the type of material (article, book, website, report etc.): use the guidelines.

  15. Common queries: What information do I need?... It depends on what you are trying to reference for example: A book • Author, A. A. (year). Title of book. Place of publication: Publisher. In text (Blaber, 2008) or Blaber (2008) In Reference listBlaber, A. (Ed.). (2008). Foundations for paramedic practice: A theoretical perspective. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

  16. Common queries: Where do I find that information? Usually on the reverse title page of a book Lets look at this bookBlaber, A. (Ed.). (2008). Foundations for paramedic practice: A theoretical perspective. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

  17. Common queries: What if there’s more than 2 authors? Common queries In text (first time you cite) • (Brown, Esdaile, & Ryan, 2003) or Brown, Esdaile and Ryan (2003) • Subsequent citations: (Brown et al., 2003) or Brown et al., (2003). • If there are 6 or more authors, then you can use “et al.” from the outset. In Reference list - You must include all the authors Brown, G., Esdaile, S. A., & Ryan, S. E. (2003). Becoming an advanced health care practitioner. Edinburgh: Butterworth-Heinemann.

  18. Common queries: How are journals different? Journal articles • Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, Volume Number(issue no. If required), pp-pp. doi if available • Shields, A. (2011). Paramedic non-technical skills: Aviation style behavioural rating systems. Journal of Paramedic Practice, 3(12), 676-680.

  19. Common queries: Online publications... Common queries Make sure if you include a URL that it works! Online publication Welsh Assembly Government. (2003). Fundamentals of care: Guidance for health and social care staff. Retrieved from http://www.wales.nhs.uk/documents/booklet-e.pdf

  20. Common queries: Page numbers? Common queries You must use page numbers in text if you are directly quoting from the source. “Communication is a fundamental and vital part of all healthcare practitioners’ practice, because care and treatment cannot effectively occur without communication of some kind” (Blaber, 2008, p. 32). In bibliography Blaber, A. (Ed.). (2008). Foundations for paramedic practice: A theoretical perspective. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

  21. Common queries: Secondary referencing... Whenever possible you should use the original work. If this is not feasible, you must make clear that you have not read the original by referring to the work in which you found the reference. In the reference list only include details of the work that you read. In-text citation • Gibb’s reflective cycle (1988) cited in Jasper (2003) shows that... or • Gibb’s reflective cycle is a seminal theory in reflective practice (Gibbs, 1988, cited in Jasper, 2003)

  22. Example reference list Blaber, A. (Ed.). (2008). Foundations for paramedic practice: A theoretical perspective. Maidenhead: Open University Press. Brown, G., Esdaile, S. A., & Ryan, S. E. (2003). Becoming an advanced health care practitioner. Edinburgh: Butterworth-Heinemann. Shields, A. (2011). Paramedic non-technical skills: Aviation style behavioural rating systems. Journal of Paramedic Practice, 3(12), 676-680. Welsh Assembly Government. (2003). Fundamentals of care: Guidance for health and social care staff. Retrieved from http://www.wales.nhs.uk/documents/booklet-e.pdf

  23. Class exercise

  24. Help is always available! • Come and see us in the Library • healthlib@swansea.ac.uk • 01792 295697 Images courtesy of: h.Koppdelaney, .sarahwynne. & Liminal Mike On Flickr, used under CC licence

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