This document provides guidance on identifying literature for a PhD dissertation literature review in psychology. It discusses primary, secondary, and tertiary sources. Primary sources include original research published in peer-reviewed journals. Secondary sources describe and analyze primary sources, such as literature reviews. Tertiary sources summarize and synthesize secondary sources. The document recommends searching academic databases using combined keywords and short search terms to efficiently find relevant sources. It also provides tips for an effective search process such as using subject searches and exploring related topics through associated authors, universities, and innovative questions within the research area.

1. What are the different database
and journal sources f o r
identifying the literature review
f o r my PhDPsychology
An Academic presentation by
Dr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical
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2. In Brief
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Tertiary Source
Database Search Process
Tips for Searching the Database
Outline
TODAY'S DISCUSSION

3. In Brief
Articles are typically the essential type of source for many kinds of research.
PhD Dissertation Literature Review Help you to find articles on a topic is to
search a database, which allows you to search for articles from hundreds of
journals at once. One of the most effective ways to locate the literature review
is to include peer-reviewed articles, books, and dissertations. Literature
Review Writing Services help to find significant research as well as studies
that respond to major work.

4. It includes original material on which other research is based.
These studies report on research done by experts in the field
of study.
It has how the survey was done, what was new, and what is
the conclusion.
The researchers collect the primary Source Data via
Qualitative, Quantitative, or mixed studies.
Dissertation Literature Review Writing Service includes an
original form of written works that is the study published in the
scholarly articles or academic journal that has a reputation on
the psychology studies.
Primary
Source

5. A secondary source is the things that describe the primary
source—the reference material form the preliminary
search is the main thing to carry out the secondary search.
Secondary search article is from journals, magazines,
newspapers, and other source obtained.
Dissertation Literature Review offers service by including a
peer-reviewed paper that is written by researchers and
scholars in the field and provides creditability and validity to
psychology study.
Secondary
Source

6. Tertiary source summarises or synthesis the Research in
the secondary source.
Tertiary
Source
Indexes provide citations to fully identify a work with
information such as author, titles of a book, article, and
publication date, volume, page numbers.
Abstracts summarize primary or secondary sources.
Databases are online indexes that usually include abstracts
for each primary or secondary source, and may also include
a digital copy of the resource.
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8. Start with a question or subject topic that you needed to
carry out the research.
Determine which library will have information on the
psychology study you search.
Thesis Literature Review Help you to take the primary
key terms of your topic and use them as your keywords
or search term.
Have a limitation to your search to get a specific article
that you need.
Run the search and look at the results and choose the
relevant article for your study.
Database
Search
Process

9. While searching a database for a psychology study,
use main phrases to get more relevant article.
In various search engine, if you type an entire
sentence, you will not lead to relevant search that you
need so that you need to pick the key phrase of the
research or words or concepts.
If you search several words without and in between,
some of the article databases will assume you want
only that thing where those words appear right next to
each other, and in that exact order.
Tips for
Searching
the
Database
1. Use
Combined
Keywords

10. The short form search will lead you to the exact thing
you need.
But don’t shorten the words too much it will bring you
unwanted items for your research.
Make the search short by including the primary key
terms of the research in a particular Topic of
psychology study.
2. Use Short
Forms

11. The first step before starting the search is after deciding
the subject.
Literature Review Writing Help you in Searching with the
specific key terms, which is usually defaulted to get more
relevant search.
This type of search may bring fewer search by including
the subject name psychology, which will bring you more
precision search.
3. Use the
Subject
Search

12. This step will help you to find all possible way to
express your topic on psychology study.
Brainstorm the ideas with collected all possible
information to get the best result.
Dissertation Help Literature Review offers to get an
idea to proper research.
4. Use your
Imagination

13. As you begin your Research to find Information, keep
searching for the bold letters in your research area.
Notice the name of the people often quoted in the
specific analysis.
Scholars who do research on your topic and the
universities with which they affiliated.
Writing Services PhD Literature Review will get
your approach to discover innovative question in
your research.
5. Approach
your
Research to
Discover
Innovative
Question

14. The broader search term will lead to usually
describe what the whole book is about.
In the article databases, the subjects will explain
what the article or chapter of a book.
That kind of search rarely works in finding the
relevant article.
6. When
Searching
the Books
use Broader
Terms

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