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Searchsmart.org: Guiding Researchers to the Best Databases and Search Systems for Systematic Reviews and Beyond
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Michael Gusenbauer – Research Synthesis Methods, 2024
When searching for scholarly documents, researchers often stick with the same familiar handful of databases. Yet, just beyond these limited horizons lie dozens of alternatives with which they could search more effectively, whether for quick lookups or thorough searches in systematic reviews or meta-analyses. Searchsmart.org is a free website that…
Descriptors: Researchers, Research Methodology, Research Skills, Research Tools
Do Psychology Researchers Tell It like It Is? A Microgenetic Analysis of Research Strategies and Self-Report Accuracy along a Continuum of Expertise
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Feldon, David F. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
Acquiring research skills is considered to be a highly challenging aspect of developing expertise in the social sciences. Because instruction and mentoring in these skills are typically grounded in the self-report of researchers, difficulties in learning the material may be due to the content and accuracy of these explanations. Using a…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Social Sciences, Data Analysis, Research Skills
Effectiveness of Course-Integrated Bibliographic Instruction in Improving Coursework.
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Kohl, David F.; Wilson, Lizabeth A. – RQ, 1986
Term paper bibliographies were independently examined and rated by a librarian and a writing instructor. Students receiving bibliographic instruction in classes that taught a cognitive strategy for using library resources did a better job of accessing and using library resources than those whose instruction emphasized specific tools and resources.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Composition Students On-Line: Database Searching in the Undergraduate Research Paper Course. Microcomputing Working Paper Series 94-F2.
Kollmeier, Harold H.; Staudt, Kathleen Henderson – 1984
A freshman humanities course in reading and research was used by three English instructors to investigate the appropriateness of having students use an online database as a research tool. The results show that the acquisition of basic online database search skills is not qualitatively different from that of more traditional research skills.…
Descriptors: College English, College Freshmen, Databases, Higher Education
Research and Library Skills: An Analysis and Interpretation.
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Stoan, Stephen K. – College and Research Libraries, 1984
This examination of misunderstandings between librarians and teaching faculty over concepts of library use and research concludes that library skills and research skills are essentially different things that can be learned in isolation from each other. Implications of these findings for bibliographic instruction and library policies are discussed.…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Retrieval, Information Sources, Library Instruction
Integrating End-User Searching into a Bibliographic Instruction Program.
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Penhale, Sara J.; Taylor, Nancy – RQ, 1986
Describes results of several studies which led to integration of end-user searching using BRS/After Dark in the bibliographic instruction program at Earlham College (Indiana). These studies compared results and patterns of online searches by students and librarians, as well as online and manual searches by students. Student opinions were also…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education