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Searching for Literature

Searching for Literature. by Miles Hamby, Ph.D. August 21, 2008. The Literature Review. Review of what others have found on your topic Benefits (from Leedy & Ormrod 2005) Offer new ideas, persepctives, approaches or problems similar to yours Identify other researchers

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Searching for Literature

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  1. Searching for Literature by Miles Hamby, Ph.D. August 21, 2008

  2. The Literature Review Review of what others have found on your topic Benefits (from Leedy & Ormrod 2005) • Offer new ideas, persepctives, approaches or problems similar to yours • Identify other researchers • Describe other methodologies and measruement tools • Reveal sources of data • Reveal unique interpretations and conclusions • Support the worthiness of your own study

  3. Searching for Literature The toughest part ~ finding the keyword Sources • Ebsco • Websites/Internet • Library card catalogues

  4. Ebsco- Your primary source! Ebsco-hosted Databases • Academic Search Premier – full text > 4,500 journals   • Business Source Premier - Most used business research database; > 2,300 journals; updated daily on EBSCOhost. • Regional Business News - 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. • ERIC(Educational Resource Information Center) - > 1,194,000 records and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents   • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) - > 690 periodicals, books, research reports and proceedings; back to mid-1960s.

  5. Juried Sources • EBSCOHost • Britannica Online • Mergent Online • Congressional Quarterly Suite • Loislaw • Oxford Reference Online • Oxford English Dictionary (OED) • Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged) • Faulkner's Security Management Practices

  6. Websites Everything on the internet is true! It isn’t?

  7. Internet Seach Engines Google.com Altavista.com Askjeeves.com Excite.com Hotbot.com Infoseek.com

  8. How to use literature Anything can be used as a reference – the crtiical thing is how it’s used! • to validate or refute • to illustrate • to defend • to compare and contrast

  9. To validate or refute - Scholarly works! What makes a work ‘scholarly’? • Source of publication – i.e., juried • Author’s name & credentials • List of references; in-text citations • Format – eg, classic 5 chapters

  10. To validate or refute - Other Sources • Government and Public Service websites – certain pages, if identified as valid information • Private website – certain pages if identified as valid information

  11. All other uses - • News articles – usually anonymous • Entertainment media – eg, u-tube, movies, music • Fiction – novels, stories • Non-juried sources - eg, Wikipedia • Blogs & Personal Websites • Organizational Websites

  12. Whatever you use - Document it!

  13. Searching for Literature

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