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Library Resources for CSD 636

• ComDisDome
• EndNote Web
• PubMed
• Google Scholar
• Tests, Measures, and Other Diagnostic Tools

General suggestions:

1. Not all search systems can handle English-language sentences - break your research question into key ideas
2. Determine synonyms and related terms for your key ideas, such as 0-5 year olds (infants, toddlers, pre-school)
3. Consider truncating search terms for more results: infant* searches for items mentioning either infant OR infants

ComDisDome - Guide to books, articles, websites, etc. in speech language pathology and audiology. More info on ComDisDome (communication sciences and disorders)

1. Place each keyword on a separate line:
• preschool*
• intervention*
• language delay
2. If you’d like a more precise search, set each line to keyword instead of anywhere
3. Set date limit to 2003-2009
4. Note that you could also limit your search to a particular journal such as American Journal of Speech Language Pathology

RESULTS

Tabbed by format, such as Peer reviewed journal.

1. Use checkbox then Update marked list link to bookmark
2. Then click the title of a reference to open it – here you can read the abstract and use descriptors to change your search or launch a new one

Try another search or two, modifying your keywords. Checkbox then Update marked list for references that look handy. When you’ve finished searching, click on Marked Records link in the top left corner. Make sure to keep this browser window active or you’ll lose your Marked list!

GETTING FULL TEXT

Under each reference, Looking for full text link will launch a new window or tab, with Journal Finder note about whether we own that journal or not.

“Online” next to the journal name means that you can get into SOME of the journal online (remember your reference-you’ll need to navigate through the journal to your article)

“Print” next to the journal name means that we have some of the journal in print.

EndNote Web – Upload references to save, share, or insert into papers/bibliographies

• Create an account by visiting http://www.myendnoteweb.com while on campus
• After that, use your EndNote Web account by visiting http://www.myendnoteweb.com from any computer (account deactivated after a year – to renew, log in while on campus)

OVERVIEW

• My References tab: View and edit references, add them to a folder, follow Journal Finder links to full text IF your reference is a journal article that we own online
• Collect tab: Add references to your account
• Organize tab: Rename, delete, or share your folders with other EndNote Web users
• Format tab: Format references in one of your folders into a bibliography or paper
• Options tab: Update your account info or download installers

SAVE REFERENCES FROM DATABASES ON CSA

• Either select a single reference OR go to your Marked Records
• Use Save, Print, Email link
• Hit Save button(file format should be set to PC), put the file on your desktop

UPLOAD REFERENCES INTO ENDNOTE WEB

• In your EndNote Web account, Go to the Collect tab, choose Import References
• Here you need to Browse to the file that you saved
• Then set the filter so that EndNote knows which database and platform your references came from. There’s no ComDisDome (CSA) filter so use ASSIA (CSA)
• Then send your references To: [Unfiled]

You should see a little red message above the Browse box, telling you that references have been imported.

PLACE YOUR REFERENCES INTO A FOLDER

• Check All then set Add to group…to New
• You should see a pop-up box with a blank space to name your new folder. If you don’t, your browser is probably blocking pop-ups or scripts…if there’s a yellow bar at the top of your browser telling you that something has been blocked, click on it to Allow.
• Name your folder something unique (Maybe Yourname Practice?)

PubMed - Leading guide to medical, biomedical, and public health journal articles published early 1950s - present. Made freely available by the National Library of Medicine.

1. Limits tab: Set Publication date to Past 5 years, Languages to English and Ages to Preschool Child
2. Type a search: intervention and language delay
3. Hit Go

Results look like this:

Author, I. Author, I. Author, I.
Abbreviated J Title. Year; Vol (Issue): pp – pp

• Hit linked author name for abstract and other info about the article
• To choose citations: place check mark, Send to Clipboard.
• Hit Clipboard tab to see your choices. They’ll be kept for up to 8 hours (maintained by cookies so don’t clear yours or log off of a public PC!).

Have lots of off-topic results? Use one good result to find others. Hit the hyperlinked author names. Here you can preview related articles (right side) or get to MeSH (subject headings).

• Display: Citation to show MeSH headings
• If one looks useful for your topic, click on it and choose “Add to search”
• Hit go to launch your new search

To look for the text of an article:

1. Mouse over the journal abbreviation to get the full title
2. Open Journal Finder and paste in the journal title
3. Using the citation in PubMed, browse to the volume, issue, and article of interest
4. If we DON'T own the article you need, place an "ILL request" to have library staff search for and send the article to you

SAVE THEN UPLOAD CITATIONS INTO ENDNOTE WEB

1. In the PubMed Clipboard, set Display: Medline then Send to: File and save onto your desktop (make sure you pay attention to the file name)
2. In Endnote Web, choose Collect then Import

• Use the commands on that page to select your file, set the filter to PubMed (NLM), and send your results to the [Unfiled] folder.

SHARING REFERENCES IN ENDNOTE WEB

• First, navigate to Options tab to review the email address that you chose. Give it to the person next to you.
• Next navigate to the Organize tab. Check a folder then hit Manage sharing. Choose Start sharing, enter the email address(es) you’ve been given, and give your partner(s) read/write access
• Navigate to My References and look in the folder list. At the bottom you should see folders that have been shared with you.

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com

Set preferences so that you will see UNCG Journal Finder links from home!

1. Choose Scholar preferences
2. After library links, search for and select University of North Carolina Greensboro
3. Save preferences

Choose Advanced Scholar Search to see additional search options

1. Type a topic
2. If desired, enter a date range or the name of a journal you'd like to search
3. Scan the first couple of lines of a result to determine whether the result is a journal, book, or web page.

To look for the text of an article

1. Click on the article title or on UNCG Journal Finder (if available)
2. If those links are not available, click on the hyperlinked title to get more information about the item. Copy the full journal name and search it in Journal Finder from the library home page.

To look for a book

1. Click Library Search (if available) to go into Open WorldCat, a metacatalog that shows the contents of UNCG and other libraries
2. If you see UNCG listed among libraries that own this book, click the Book link to goto our library catalog for call number and availability information.

Google Scholar help explains results and describes search commands: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/help.html

Tests, Measures, and Other Diagnostic Tools

"Published" vs. "Unpublished"

"Published" measures are those which are available for purchase from publishers. "Unpublished" measures are not for sale and are often difficult to obtain. Often authors will refer to the instrument used in their research, but will not include a copy of it in their article or book chapter. Tests, measures, and other research instruments are seldom available through InterLibrary Loan.

Getting tests and measures

STEP ONE: Identify a test or measure of interest (full title of the instrument, author name, year created). The rest of the process will be much easier if you limit yourself to searching for tests and measures that you KNOW are freely available.

STEP TWO: Determine whether your test is "published" (sold commercially) or whether it is "unpublished" (free IF you can find it and get author's permission).

STEP THREE: Contact the company for copies of "published" tests. For other tests, follow references for more information about the test. If you find the test, contact the author for permission to use it.

Full Text of Tests and Measures:

PsycInfo Guide to psychology literature 1872-present. Some results include description of whether the item has full text of a test or measure. Type your search topic in the top box (a broad search such as communication or language will get many more results than a narrow search such as aphasia). Then in the next search box, type appended and set the search field to TM Tests and Measures.

ERIC Guide to education literature 1967-present. Some results include description of whether the item has full text of a test or measure. Type your topic (a broad search such as communication or language will get many more results than a narrow search such as aphasia). Then, under the Refine Search tab, set Publication type to Tests. If you get plenty of results from this search, you may want to filter results even more. It is possible to set Education Level to Early Childhood Education, Preschool, etc. For each result, click on “Full Text From ERIC” to view. If there is no link with this label, note the entire citation (including the number beginning with ED or the number beginning with EJ) and contact the Reference department for help.

ETS Test Locator. Guide to 14,000 research instruments. Some are commercially available, some are not. To set up a search ONLY for tests which we own:

• Hit the "Advanced" link (located under the search box).
• Change the search from TitleSearch to Availability. Type "microfiche" without the quotes and hit search. These are all of the tests available in the microfiche collection.
• Now change the search back to TitleSearch or try DescriptorSearch, then type a topic such as language or communication.
• Click on the title of a result for more information. If you see "Tests in Microfiche" in the Availability field, then we should own the test in microfiche form. Print off the full citation, including the number that begins with TC, and bring it to the Reference Desk in Jackson Library.

Other Guides to Tests and Measures (references will not often lead you directly to the full text of the test or measure):

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (1985 to present). Guide to published and unpublished tests and measures. The "Source" field shows where to go for more information about the instrument. One simultaneous user limit. More info.

Directory of unpublished experimental mental measures/Goldman, Bert A. Jackson Library Reference Room, BF431 .G625

Tests and measurements in child development : handbook II / Orval G. Johnson. Jackson Library Reference Room OR Tower 9, BF722 .J643

Mental Measurements Yearbook (1985-present). Search to identify tests and measures which can be purchased. 4 concurrent user limit. More info.

Lea Leininger
Public Health Librarian