Sociology of Aging: Sociology 164W Professor Edythe Krampe Tuesday, January 15, 2008 9:30a.m. - 12:30 p.m.. ILC (Science Lib.) Room 164 Pauline Manaka Research Librarian for Sociology E-Mail pdmanaka@uci.edu Phone: (949)824- 4969
GOALS: Perform basic and advanced searches to find empirical journal articles and books How to use the PsycInfo Thesaurus for effective searches. How to conduct Searches in Multiple databases, and How to search AgeLine How to manipulate search results determine what’s empirical, e-mailing and cite results How to locate the materials at UCI Libraries
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Steps to Conduct a Literature Review in Soc 164W Begin with a topic of interest on the subject “Aging.” For background information on the topic, consult other sources. See the Sociology Subject Guide: http://www.lib.uci.edu/online/subject/subpage.php?subject=socio
Examples of Research Topic? “Dating among the elderly” OR “Driving and the elderly women”
Examples of Reference Sources for background and overview information. Encyclopedia of Aging REF HQ1061 .E534 2002 International Encyclopedia of behavioral and the Social Sciences- online
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/0080430767
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/irvi75182?db=OVRC OR CQ Researcher http://library2.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/
Examples of a brief Problem Statement to define your topic and determine “keywords” or thesaurus descriptors. keyword(s) for the topic: “Dating among the elderly” are grouped in TWO
Group 1: Dating; Courtship; Group 2 Aging; Old Age; Aged The most relevant databases to search for information are Example: CSA PsycInfo; AgeLine by AARP; CSA Sociological Abstracts Steps to Access and to Search PsycInfo from the UCI Libraries’ web page, http://www.lib.uci.edu . Follow steps in class. .
Select Article Databases- PsycINFO, AgeLine< Sociological Abstracts Use keywords to Search PsycINFO Thesaurus, for database “descriptors” Search PsycINFO – look for empirical articles Carefully evaluate the abstracts to determine the ideal ones Select 4-5 articles with an empirical methodology Locate the articles using UC e-Links Mark and email the citations OR articles Create a bibliography using QuickBib
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What is PsycINFO? The PsycINFO database contains records for articles in over 1,300 scholarly journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations in Psychology and related disciplines indexed by the American Psychological Association from 1887 to the present. Most citations include abstracts. Currently, there are over 1,453,337 citations. New citations are loaded weekly. The PsycInfo Thesaurus provides Psychological terminology (descriptors) which group together articles within a common area. There are cross-references assigned to synonymous terminology from a standardized list developed by the American Psychological Association. Unlike keywords, descriptor searching is more exact. Example: Thesaurus Terminology. Group 1: Aging Group 2: Social Dating; Human Courtship
To Locate the Journal articles, Click on UC- eLinks – to move from an article or book citation in an article database to the full online content of the item, or, for print materials, to automatically look for a UC library location of the item.
Full Text Articles - copy of the article online ANTPAC catalog – Journal (print or electronic), if UCI owns it. Interlibrary Loan - Journal article if not owned by UCI ASK a Librarian - for additional assistance. To create a QuickBib - Click on Save, Print, Email – then choose a bibliographic
style - APA then click on Create. Email the saved citations in your list to your email account
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Use the Thesaurus to find appropriate Sociology terminology to search effectively
From the Advanced screen,
Select Search Tools then PsycThesaurus. Browse “drivers” (your term/ keyword) From the results- select most appropriate term – driver safety Note the history of the term within the thesaurus – all changes Example: Driver safety changed in 1973 to highway safety Terms with + provides relationship to synonyms, broader terms, etc. Check highway safety and click on search Narrow search accordingly using AND Aging; limit to empirical studies, and by date 1995-2008
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To locate additional articles, search multiple databases with related content. B. To access PsycArticles and Sociological Abstracts, Select specific databases. Run the search in more than one database searching by keywords. NOTE descriptors searching are database specific; use the thesaurus in PsycInfo to do so.
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C. Access AgeLine Database from the Sociology Subject Guide or directly: http://www.aarp.org/research/ageline/ SEARCH AgeLine – „Advanced search‟ allows a focus on professional articles
Use the links: http://www.aarp.org/research/ageline/gero.html http://assets.aarp.org/rgcenter/ageline/research.pdf for additional help
EXAMPLE: A search for dating and aging with a limit to Research/Academic retrieves 30 results, Carefully review the results.. Ignore dissertations; Focus on journal articles. Mark the important ones. To LOCATE Search the UCI ANTPAC catalog by journals title Determine the following: If the journal is at UCI Fulltext, link to the URL and locate the specific date/issue If the journal is at UCI in print, use the call number to locate the specific date/issue If the journal is NOT at UCI request it via Interlibrary Loan. (pls. see page 6-8 below)
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What is ANTPAC and How to use it? How to find books on your topic. For help, see: http://tutorial.lib.uci.edu/mod3/mod3a.html a. Search ANTPAC – UCI Libraries online catalog b. Select Keyword Aging and Exercise and search to search for books
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c. To find journal NAMES, search for title and limit searching to Journals or serials. Link to electronic versions or locate by call number.
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FOR Quick Help with APA Style Citations, please refer to Esther Grassian‟s tips: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/library/modules/Etiquette/citation-apa/citation-apa.htm
Pauline D. Manaka, E-mail: pdmanaka@uci.edu Phone: (949)824-4969
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