Academic literacy
What do we search?
Database a-z (ut-library) use for subscription
• Install library extension plug in
Grey= not peer reviewed – commercial published
• Thesis
• Pre-prints
• Advantage is seeing what people in your topic are talking about NOW
White= fugitive literature
• Papers produced by government and business
Coloured= scientific literature
• Peer reviewed
• Takes a longgg time
• Web of science, ebscohost, psycinfo, n/n connect (only Dutch)
How do we search
• Inciteful is AI that snowballs for you
• Connected papers also AI
Boolean operators
Combine synonyms = OR
• “Music therapy” OR “sound intervention”
Narrow search = AND
• “Music therapy” AND “sound intervention”
Exclude terms or concept
• (“Music therapy” and “chronic pain”) NOT “acute pain”
For truncation
• Pain*
• Generate all the content with the word pain in it
What do we search?
Database a-z (ut-library) use for subscription
• Install library extension plug in
Grey= not peer reviewed – commercial published
• Thesis
• Pre-prints
• Advantage is seeing what people in your topic are talking about NOW
White= fugitive literature
• Papers produced by government and business
Coloured= scientific literature
• Peer reviewed
• Takes a longgg time
• Web of science, ebscohost, psycinfo, n/n connect (only Dutch)
How do we search
• Inciteful is AI that snowballs for you
• Connected papers also AI
Boolean operators
Combine synonyms = OR
• “Music therapy” OR “sound intervention”
Narrow search = AND
• “Music therapy” AND “sound intervention”
Exclude terms or concept
• (“Music therapy” and “chronic pain”) NOT “acute pain”
For truncation
• Pain*
• Generate all the content with the word pain in it
