1. Welcome to Your Library
COMD 3375
COMD 6361

2. Class Objectives
1. Able to understand and navigate Library’s web site and locate
research databases
2. Understand what Peer Reviewed articles are and know how to locate
them
3. Able to distinguish between primary, secondary, and tertiary
literature.
4. Able to use RefWorks to compile a bibliography for a paper.
5. Understand how to formulate a computer database search and to
know what databases to use

3. Quick Tour…..
• Quick Library Tour

4. Your Library
• 2 million volumes
• 15,000 serials
• 250 databases
• 36 individual group study rooms
• 3 Branch Libraries
•Arch/Art
•Music
•Optometry

5. Services
• Remote access– CougarNet account
• Full text Journal articles
• Cougar One Card
• Cougar-net account
• VPN account
• Inter Library Loan [online]
• Library Provides 500 free pages of prints
• IT Central Site also 500 free prints (Library Basement –
own entrance)
• Free Photocopying or you can email or save on a flash
drive

6. Peer Reviewed Articles
• Stated in preface pages of the Journal
• Contains list of cited references
• Many databases provide a “peer review” limit option
• Can check in Ulrich’s database–uses “refereed “
• Popular works, such as magazine and newspaper articles, are
written for the general public– and are not Peer Reviewed.

7. How to Distinguish Between
Primary
• Secondary
• Tertiary
•

8. Primary Sources
• Source material that is closest to the information.
• A source with direct personal knowledge of the events being
described. It serves as an original source of information about the
topic. A person with direct knowledge of a situation, or a document
created by such a person.
• E.G. Case Reports, Clinical Trials, Original reporting articles…1st
person

9. Secondary Sources
• Cite, comment on, or build upon primary sources.
• Involve generalization, analysis, synthesis, interpretation, or
evaluation of the original information. If an article discusses old
documents to derive a new conclusion, it is considered to be a
primary source for the new conclusion
• E.G. Review Articles, meta-analysis [most peer review articles
report new findings and thus are considered primary resources]

10. Tertiary Sources
• More peripheral
• Bibliographies, library catalogs, directories,
reading lists and survey articles.
• Compilation of data…E.G. encyclopedias, handbooks
• Longer lead time in publishing…..

11. Citation Searching
Assumed subject relevancy between the
original paper and the references that
paper cites

12. Citation Searching
Traditional Search Citation Search
2011
2010 2010
1984 1998
2008
1984
1980
1975
1970
1963

14. Library Subject Guide

15. Your Search Strategy
 Write out your question or topic
 Identify your key concepts
 Brainstorm for alternate terms or phrases
 e.g. (speech or articulation) (neonatal or newborn)
 Decide on the types of materials you need
 Decide on your search terms & truncation

16. Think Boolean
Articles on How Stuttering may affect self esteem in youth
Teen*
“Self esteem” Stutter* or
or
Adolesc*
“Self Confidence” or
or 200 Youth
“Self Perception” or
Juvenile*
670 2000

17. Think Boolean
Articles on How Stuttering may affect self esteem in youth
Stuttering
Self Esteem 18
Youth

18. Finding Research Articles
Electronic Databases:
• Academic Search Complete
• SCOPUS (includes Medline)
• CINAHL Plus
• ERIC
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
• PsychARTICLES
• PsycINFO

19. Now, let’s look at our
web page
and begin