Lamson Library: IS 1115 TWP Addiction Prof Anne Jung-Mathews: The All-Important Bibliography

Finding Background Information

Finding Articles for the Bibliography

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
The library's primary scholarly database. Contains over 18,400 journals, over 16,300 of which are peer-reviewed, and over 8,900 are full text.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Sociology database with full text for 860 journals in addition to over 800 books and thousands of conference papers.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Contains abstracts and summaries of over 5 million peer-reviewed psychology journal articles and other records. Full text of articles can be requested via Interlibrary Loan.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic This link opens in a new window
Abstracts for articles from nearly 850 journals (over 700 are peer-reviewed). Full text articles from nearly 550 journals. Emphasis on nursing and allied health.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government institutions.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google's academic search engine that connects you to our library subscriptions.
Setup Scholar for off-campus

Note: You can use Google to find information from government websites

For example, "eating addiction" :.gov

Interlibrary Loan

Is the book or article not at PSU? Don't pay for a copy! Place a request through Interlibrary Loan, a free service for students, faculty, and staff.

- Go to the Interlibrary Loan Page.

- Look the blue Create Request button. Click the button for the material type you want, then fill out the request form.

- Articles are delivered to your email in PDF format, usually in 2-5 business days.

- Books are delivered to Lamson and can be picked up at the information desk in 1-2 weeks.

The Bibliography Defined

A bibliography is a list of sources that includes enough publication information so that the reader can easily find the original source. A bibliography may include a wide variety of sources such as books, journals, websites, conference papers, interviews, or other kinds of documents. When you include a bibliography in your paper you aren't just doing it because your professor requires you to do so. Rather, you are sharing an important tool that your reader can use to examine your paper topic in more detail. Other names for a bibliography are "Works Cited" or "References."

When doing research for a paper, you may come across a sentence with information that is particularly interesting or relevant to the topic you are investigating. You'll want to know where that idea came from, or where you can get more information.

Finding Books for the Bibliography

To limit your search to books only, click on the BOOKS icon FIRST before typing in your term(s).

Here are some helpful terms to make your searching easier. The general term is addictions, but that is a very broad and will get you many results. Other more specific terms are alcoholism, drug addiction, drug addiction in sports, exercise addiction, pornography addiction, sex addiction, social media addiction, television addiction, nicotine addiction (instead of tobacco), video game addiction, internet addiction, relationship addiction, sports addiction, substance abuse, workaholism, compulsive gambling, compulsive eaters, compulsive eating. You can add other terms to your search like treatment, united states, mental illness, etc.

Links to Information Fluency Units

1. Information [Michael Davidson]
https://s3.amazonaws.com/FYSFrame/Information/story.html
If this is the "Information Age," how should we define and look at information? What makes an intelligent "information" user?

2. Get Back(ground)!: Background Information Sources [Gary McCool]McCool]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/FYSFrame/GetBack/story.html
There are many ways to go about getting started finding out about a subject we don't know much about. Here is an easy way to get accurate, objective, and reliable information to get you started. The reference collection is huge, how do I find what I need? What can a librarian do for me? It also answers the question, "Where do I go from here?"

3. All the News: Newspapers [Bob Fitzpatrick]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/FYSFrame/AlltheNews/story.html
How do contemporary newspaper accounts (both historical and present) fit into research? When is a newspaper useful? How important is it that we look at an issue from many viewpoints?

4. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Google and the problems of Ephemera [Anne Jung-Mathews]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/FYSFrame/HereToday/story.html
We know you love Google. So do librarians. How can you be a smart information detective? What are a few of the tricks to finding just what you need on Google? What are some of the things to look out for when gathering information from the Internet? When is it appropriate to use Internet sources for scholarly research?

5. Books [Alice Pearman]
https://s3.amazonaws.com/FYSFrame/Books/story.html
[Not ready yet, but this will be the URL.]
Books are often still the best sources for in-depth, reliable, and thorough coverage of most issues. How do you determine the reliability, objectivity, and accuracy of the printed (paper or electronic) word? Do you have to read the entire book? What are the best ways to get what you need out of a book quickly? Do you even have to go to the library to get a book?

6. What’s Scholarly?: Peer-Review and Scholarly Sources on Databases [Christin Wixson]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/FYSFrame/PeerReview/story.html
Why is this the gold standard for reseaswindrch? What makes something scholarly? What is the peer review process? How do I find the right database for my subject? Who can help me?

7. Bibliographies: Using Bibliographies and Finding Experts [Bob Fitzpatrick]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/FYSFrame/ScholarshipPartI/story.html

https://s3.amazonaws.com/FYSFrame/ScholarshipPartII/story.html
In addition to what we've looked at in previous units, how do scholars find information? What does ongoing research look like?

Citing Your Work

Citation Managers

NoodleTools This link opens in a new window
For full-featured citation management, we subscribe to NoodleTools.
NoodleTools app for iOS, Android. NoodleTools help

ZoteroBib
Simple, no-frills citation website.
Zotero (full)
More advanced citation tool preferred by many grad students. (Tutorial)
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Web-based plus downloadable app/extension. Free but offers paid upgrades.

Evaluating Information Sources Libguide

Evaluating Information Resources
How good is the information you've found?

Create a My EBSCOHost Account

Using a MyEBSCOhost Account

You have your own account to save (and find again!) those terrific articles you found. You can also save search terms, or create an alert for new articles available with your search terms.

To access your account:

Access an EBSCO database, like Academic Search Premier.
Click the Sign In link in the horizontal green menu along the top of your screen.
To access previously saved articles, click the Folder link in the horizontal green menu.

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