Where to get help?: wiswellj@appstate.edu, library webpage (Stephanie Bennett, bennettsj1@)
WRITING CENTER
How can you find previous students' masters theses? NC DOCKS (and WorldCat and Open Dissertations)
How can you get full text of journal articles? -- often a multi-step process (mostly due to $$$ ownership barriers)
Libkey.io/ add DOI or PubMed number to Libkey.io/ This is NEW. Try this one, libkey.io/10.4085/1062-6050-0516.21
If initial button click does not work, try Google Scholar. ILLiad account. Email me.
What is the importance of Cited by ___ in GS and PubMed. What's highly cited on your topic?
What are systematic reviews? We're not doing systematic reviews. Why look at them?
Systematic review methods, for guidance on more routine literature searches -- One example, and excerpt.
What are 3 components of first stage methodology of a systematic review?
1. Which databases?: PubMed, GScholar, APPsearch, Web of Science, Cochrane, . . . (Dimensions, Scopus next week))
which journals, relevance and other ranking, abstract vs full text, quirks
PubMed example. "Female Age-Related Differences in Biomechanics and Muscle Activity During Descents on the Outstretched Arms"
What about AI tools?
2. Which words and phrases? -- PICO, standardized terminology / MeSH, Boolean: AND OR NOT " "
From review above -- concussion sports rest (same as concussion AND sports AND rest)
3. everything else, including citing and "cited by," authors, "hand search"
Cited by: Google Scholar, Web of Science, new "open citations" tools coming
Also see PubMed's "Similar Articles" and other.
Also see profile pages and .edu personal pages
How can a person manage all these articles?
Zotero (EndNote, Mendeley) citation management software
Documenting your search strategy. (Important if you're using AI.)