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PHSC 1: Introduction to Public Health
- 1. PHSC 1: INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC HEALTH Library and Learning Commons Santa Clara University
- 2. SCHEDULE • Introduction to the Library (10 min) • Finding and Joining the Scholarly Conversation (20 min) • Finding Articles about Existing Interventions (10 min) • Exercise (10 min) • Team Trivia (15 min)
- 4. FINDING AND JOINING THE SCHOLARLY CONVERSATION Library and Learning Commons Santa Clara University
- 7. It says here, that the rise in vaping is caused by… That’s interesting. I never thought of it like that… I saw a documentary on the vaping industry… I see both of your points, but have you considered…
- 8. EVERYTHING that is published on vaping is one long conversation!
- 9. What’s next?
- 17. We’re all part of the scholarly conversation!
- 18. FINDING ARTICLES ABOUT EXISTING INTERVENTIONS Santa Clara University Library & Learning Commons
- 19. ? ? ? ?
- 20. Use: Keywords to describe interventions intervention program development program evaluation government program cost benefit analysis
- 22. In-Class Exercise: To Explore and Discover Go to this link or find it on the course libguide: https://forms.gle/PVi6wcW4N35jMFgt5
- 23. TRIVIA TIME!
- 24. CONTACT US Find your librarian at our contact page: https://www.scu.edu/library/contact-us/
Editor's Notes
- So, your professor wants you to find and join a scholarly conversation…..
- What is scholarly conversation?
- Think of scholarly as “scholarship”, which is another word for research. So the phrase, scholarly conversation essentially means a conversation through research.
- When someone conducts research and publishes their results, or findings they are responding to previous research. Sometimes these authors are Challenging or disagreeing with previous research Applying an idea or technique from somewhere else to a new subject Sometimes, they use new techniques to confirm theories of previous researchers
- So, if you think of it this way, all published literature such as articles, books, videos, in a particular field is one long scholarly conversation between researchers. If you conduct research, write about it, and share your findings, you are joining the conversation.
- Now, how do you find and join others.
- Authors can explain their place in scholarly conversation by using in-text citation in the body of their Article bibliographies Reference pages These citations show the previous research that has influenced a new study. The more times a paper or book has been cited by researchers, the more influential the source is.
- However, don’t let the numbers fool you. A higher citation count doesn’t automatically mean that the source is better than others. It can mean the author may have a louder voice in that conversation. Another thing, which we’ll look at is that older articles will have more citations then newer articles, simply because they were published before them. This means that newer articles are referencing older research, thus, driving up the citation count. Don’t rely on citation count!
- Take a look at google scholar. We will use this as a means of tracking a scholarly conversation. One of the really nice things about Google Scholar is that it compiles citation counts as you can see how many times other authors have cited a particular source.
- If we take a look at PubMed, you can find it in the record at the bottom.
- Again, you can also just look at the references to see what they are citing. You can also “mind” the reference section for more sources.
- Example in Google Scholar
- Example in PubMed
- So, you have to find articles about existing interventions and basically, find out what’s working and what’s not working. Where do you even start?
- Well, let’s make it easy by first, introducing you to some vocabulary that you can use for your searching.
- Let’s take a look at how you can use this in PubMed. Don’t worry, you can also just do a simple “keyword” search in any database for this, but this is another way to search.
- For the next 10 minutes, I want you to find 2 articles for your topic. One article should just be an article talking about your topic. The second article should look at existing interventions. I’ll play some music while you do this.
- Optional: If you we have time!