CRCJ 3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ebsco Information Services, Psycinfo, Apa Style

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 3001
• Professor: Susan Yamamoto

Document Summary

Psycinfo: advanced search > limit to: peer reviewed > methodology: quantitative study, advanced search > thesaurus > related terms > explode > add to search. Criminal justice abstracts: advanced search > search: term" & quantitative, course guide > crcj3001 > recommended journal > journal of quantitative. Basic & applied research: basic research does the work of real theory building, knowledge for the sake of knowledge, applied research (i. e. clinical studies, not mutually exclusive. A caution on regular web searches: can use google scholar, extra care in assessment (when using google, working papers, non-peer-reviewed, outright garbage. Conducting a lit search: literature: collection of published information, shows current knowledge on a topic, goal: to identify a gap in that knowledge. Types of sources: primary, firsthand accounts, authors actually made the observations, secondary, summary of another"s work, author participate in observations. Databases: psychinfo, pubmed, jstor, philosopher"s index, specific publishers (ex.