ONLINE AND OFFLINE RESOURCES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT PSY494P122 (2015-I) Carlos A. Almenara, PhD. Institute for Research on Children, Youth, and Family (IVMDR), Masaryk University, Brno – Czech Republic THE BASICS OF SEARCH 2 GOOGLE SCHOLAR 3 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢ ¢Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. ¢ ¢You can search across many disciplines and sources: —articles, theses, books, abstracts, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. 4 http://scholar.google.com/ EXERCISE 5 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢EXERCISE: — —Perform a simple search for psychopharmacology on Google Scholar — — — — —How many of the results do you consider as “scientific information”? 6 http://scholar.google.com/ GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢ ¢Partial Match — —This is the kind of search we usually use by “default” — — 7 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢ ¢PageRank ¢ —It’s Google’s algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. — —This is the reason why some documents appear first than others. — — 8 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢PageRank — 9 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢Boolean Search ¢ —A Boolean search uses “operators” (AND, OR , NOT) — — 10 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢Exact Match ¢ —Use quotation marks to search for exact terms — — 11 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢Search the title of the document ¢ —Use the operator intitle: — — 12 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢Search by author ¢ —Use the operator author: — — 13 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢Search by author (exact match) ¢ —Combine the operator author with exact match: — — 14 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢Search by author (exact match and Boolean operator) ¢ —Combine the operator author with exact match and a Boolean operator: — —author:"tg masaryk" OR author:"Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk" OR author:"Tomáš Masaryk" OR author:"Tomáš G Masaryk" — 15 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢Search by publication — 16 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢Search by publication ¢ —NOTE: Google suggests you the journal’s abbreviated name — 17 GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢Search by publication ¢ —NOTE: You can search a journal’s abbreviation in the NLM Catalog — 18 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢Search by publication ¢ —NOTE: Google scholar may also accept the journal’s ISSN — 19 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/journals GOOGLE SCHOLAR ¢Search by publication — —You might combine your search: — — —OPTION 1: — —"European Journal of Psychological Assessment" OR "Europ J Psychol Assessm“ — —OPTION 2: — 1015-5759 OR 2151-2426 20 21 GOOGLE PRODUCTS ¢http://www.google.com/advanced_search ¢https://encrypted.google.com/advanced_search ¢http://images.google.com/advanced_search ¢http://groups.google.com/ ¢http://news.google.com/ ¢http://videos.google.com ¢http://translate.google.com/ ¢http://www.google.com/preferences ¢http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory ¢http://www.google.com/trends ¢https://www.google.com/cse/manage/create 22 More: https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=ty_BGDs9hnuBMRvj3AFeB2g&output=html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products https://www.google.com/cse/publicurl?cx=010907764665242047998:2tmn5_bdyu8 GOOGLE ¢intitle, allintitle ¢inurl, allinurl ¢filetype, ext ¢allintext ¢site ¢link ¢inanchor ¢daterange 23 ¢rphonebook ¢bphonebook ¢phonebook ¢stocks ¢define ¢cache ¢info ¢related Date range uses Julian calendar days. You can calculate it online: http://www.onlineconversion.com/julian_date.htm Stocks uses valid stock ticker symbol. You may search them on: http://www.macroaxis.com/invest/companyDirectory GOOGLE GROUPS 24 ¢ ¢Author ¢ ¢group ¢ ¢insubject ¢ ¢msgid More: http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators.html GOOGLE 25 ¢“psychological assessment” ¢ ¢-psychiatry ¢ ¢~assessment ¢ ¢“psychological * assessment” ¢ ¢“psychological assessment” | “psychological measurement” GOOGLE ¢site:.cz ¢ ¢filetype:pdf ¢ ¢ext:pdf ¢ ¢intitle:"psychological assessment" ¢ ¢allintext:MMPI appendix ¢ ¢link:http://www.apa.org ¢ ¢inurl:test ¢ ¢cache:http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/using-test-data-in-clinical-practice/d200.xml — — — — 26 GOOGLE NEWS ¢ ¢ ¢psychology location:"czech republic" ¢ ¢ ¢psychology source:"washington post" — — — 27 READINGS FOR THE NEXT CLASS: (1) Finding sources of information: Electronic databases (Lenburg, 2010) (2) Finding the evidence (Wilczynski & McKibbon, 2013) (3) Locating the best available research (Norcross, Hogan, & Koocher, 2008) (optional) 28 ASSIGNMENT: According to your research question, make a list of databases that you will use to find information.