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Advanced Search Tips

Liz Johns

Robin Sinn

GOAL:
Discover new strategies for researching new concepts and topics.

Tonight

• Snowballing
• Keywords
• Limiters
• Getting out of your comfort zone

Your Assignment

1. Provide an overview of the cognitive perspective.

2. Choose one or more concepts within the theory
to investigate more deeply

3. [How is this related to your POP?]

(see full assignment)

Snowballing

Fill out columns A-D in the Google sheet:
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Google Scholar
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FindIt

Your Turn

• Pick an article from the bibliography
• Search for it in Google Scholar
• Use FindIt if needed
• Check "Agree" once you've found something.

Snowballing

Google Scholar
Cited By

Your Turn

• Pick an article
• Click Cited By
• Scan through the results
• Save anything useful
• Return to Adobe and answer the poll

POLL:

What frustrates you most about searching?

CHAT:

What do you do when you encounter those challenges?

Keyword Power Up

Your Turn

• Brainstorm keywords in Google Sheet
• Search the thesaurus
• Enter thesaurus terms in Google Sheet
• Respond to prompt in the chat box

Limiters

CHAT:

How did you go about finding information when you had such restrictions?

Your Turn

• Try a search in ERIC
• Note the limiters or additional features you used in the Google Sheet
• Respond to the chat question

CHAT:

What was different about the search you just did when you added on these limiters?

Comfort Zone

Other Guides

• Cognitive Science
• Psychology
• Neuroscience

Your Turn: Be Prepared

• Bookmark these new guides
• Answer the poll

POLL:

Who is the librarian listed on the Cognitive Science Guide?

GOAL:
Discover new strategies for researching new concepts and topics.

Upcoming Sessions

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Questions?