2. Good News: A lot of information is digitized Legal and scientific databases have much the information you need. Bad News: A lot of information is digitized There is so much information, what you need can be hard to find. Problem: Too much information rather than too little. Solution: Versatile searching Good News & Bad News
3. Google/Googlization The magic box Becoming the standard, e.g. Problem: Drowning in information Consider other ways of searching Operators/Expanders: AND, OR, !/* Fields: text/keyword subject title author abstract time Use synonyms Types of Searching
4. Should new discoveries in brain science be used to help determine criminal culpability of teens? Test Case …findings suggest that teenage peer pressure has a distinct effect on brain signals involving risk and reward, helping to explain why young people are more likely to misbehave and take risks when their friends are watching. --Tara Parker-Pope, Teenagers, Friends and Bad Decisions, N.Y. Times, Feb. 3, 2011.
5. To Start: Teenager, Brain, Crime Synonyms: Teenager: Teen, adolescent, juvenile, minor, youth, youngster, stripling, teenybopper, hobbledehoy Root expanders to capture more terms: teen!/teen* = teen & teenager adolesc!/adolesc* = adolescent & adolescent Make Search Terms
6. Westlaw/Lexis Law Reviews Pros: Lots of operators to help searching &, OR, !, /s, /p, /# Con: Not a lot of interdisciplinary material Search: (ADOLESC! JUVENILE TEEN!) /S CRIM! /S BRAIN 121 results Limit by time (10 years), narrow proximity (/5) 30 results Legal Databases
7. Catalog, www.library.drexel.edu/ Search by: Keyword, subject, author Books Journals: Great to find articles when you have cite Electronic Resources Psychology Research Guide, www.library.drexel.edu/resources/guides/humanitiesguides/psychology/ Facts and Background Materials Biographical Information Finding Books Tests and Measurement Finding Articles Selected Web Resources Drexel Libraries
8. Google Scholar scholar.google.com Pros: Covers lots of sources Tied in to Drexel Library databases (when @ Drexel) Lists articles citing article Great when you have title Cons: Not a lot of field options No proximity operators/root expanders Search: brain crime teen OR teenager OR Juvenile 45,300 results Limit by: date (5 yrs.); area (social sciences) 16,800 results (30 if limit by author)
9. www.library.drexel.edu/, articles & more tab Pro: Contains all sources available from Drexel Great if you know article name Cons: Not a lot of field options but get more to refine search No proximity operators/root expanders Search: brain crime teenager Results: 6,258 Limit By: Date (5 yrs); scholarly articles; subjects (teenagers & psychology) Results: 27 Drexel Libraries: Articles & More/Summon
10. www.library.drexel.edu/, Databases tab Pros: Extensive coverage Dedicated to specific topics Fields, operators, root expanders Cons: Multiple systems May work differently, use different operators Subject Databases
11. Databases to Consider: Annual Reviews PsycINFO Proquest Research Library ScienceDirect Sage Journals Online Jstor Search: ( ( teen* ORadolesc* OR juvenile ) AND crime ) AND brain ) Results: 138 Limit by: Date (5 yrs); abstracts Results: 47 but… Subject Databases
