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25 Cards in this Set
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Purpose of research |
To add knowledge |
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A good literature review will help you in the following specific areas |
Methods, ethics, language and style, inspiration |
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We want to know two things from a literature search |
Relevance and quality |
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Relevance |
Information that is immediately useful to you |
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Quality |
Infornation that is credible, can be relied on, and in cas of scholarly reasearch, meets the standards of the research community |
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The art and science of good literature search is |
Finding out how to overlap relevance and quality |
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Quality information |
Has been obtained in a way that meegs scholarly standards |
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Refereed article |
One that has been peer reviewed of refereed by other researchers in the author’s field (peers) before being accepted for publication |
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Search engines |
Devices such as google and yahoo that retrieve information from the web |
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Search engines nadelen |
Information overload and questionable quality of results |
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Databases |
Collections of (mostly) scholarly articles that can be searched electronically (in the context of bibliographic research). |
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Scholarly articles |
Go through a process of peer review before publication |
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Popular articles |
Are published without a refereeing process (e.g. Newspaper and magazine stories) |
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Trade publications |
Are somewhere in between scholarly articles and popular articles. These are journals published for a particular industry (the articles are written by experts but not necessarily to the standards of an academic research publication) |
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Primary source |
An original article or book. Serversl pages in lenght and has subsectioms typical of scholarly research papers. |
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Secondary sources |
An author’s interpretation or summary of an original (primary) source. Summarizes a primary source in a relatively short newspaper column with no subheadings |
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Search terms |
Logical start to a search. The words typed into a database or search engine when searching for information |
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Search field |
Searchable components of a database such as date, author, and title. |
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Boolean operators |
Adding three most basic operations to reduce the number of search results to something managable. (And or not) |
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And |
Reduces results |
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Or |
Expands your search |
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Not |
Narrows your search |
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Bibliographic |
Pertaining to books and journals |
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Citations |
The publications details of books, journal articles or websites |
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Doi |
Document object identifier. A string if characters used to uniquely identify a web based document |
