Lecture 3 search and assimilating literature

Question 1

How do you conduct literature searches on Google Scholar, PsychINFO, and PubMed?

Answer 1

Google scholar is another option under google;
PsychINFO can be accessed through RMIT
PubMed can be accessed through RMIT

Question 2

Understand the differences between these three search engines? Google scholar

Answer 2

Google scholar

      1. accesses the largest database
      2. simple interface 
      3. links to the Google Scholar profiles of authors (where available)
      4. Links to papers that have cited the source     reference.
      5. links to other relevant papers.
      6. links to pdfs where relevant.
      7. can provide the citation details in APA format.
      8. can import details directly into Endnote;
      9. can save your search terms and send you updates when new relevant papers are published.

Disadvantages:

    1. Non selective (also accesses non refereed sources)
    2. Doe not use Boolean operators for searching.

Question 3

Understand the differences between these three search engines? PsychINFO

Answer 3

PsychINFO and PsychArticles are maintained by the American Psychological Association(APA)

PasychArticles provides full text access to more than 90 articles