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Psycinfo redo example_search_2017_2

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Physical attractiveness and academic achievement are subject terms in PsycINFO that can be used to search more precisely. Searching for "attractiveness" and adding the subject term "academic achievement" with the word "or" expanded the results from 6 items to 100 items. Limiting the search to peer reviewed articles in English further narrowed the results down to 67 items by filtering out other publication types and languages.

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Let’s look at the Subject Terms in the PsycINFO item record we saw earlier
1.I entered the word attractiveness and we see that physical attractiveness is a PsycINFO subject term 2.I entered the phrase school achievement and the PsycINFO subject term for that concept is academic achievement
I will redo the search in PsycINFO, leaving the word attractiveness alone, but ADDING the subject phrase academic achievement You ADD synonyms to a search line by separating the synonymous words/phrases with the word or
Rather than seeing a result list with 6 items, we now have a result list with 100 items
Since PsycINFO includes books, chapters, and doctoral dissertations, as well as material in other languages, you can limit the search to peer reviewed articles in the English language by returning to the Advanced Search screen and checking two boxes: Limit to—Peer reviewed; Language—English
After rerunning the search with the limits of peer reviewed and English language applied we have 67 items on our result list

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Psycinfo redo example_search_2017_2

  • 1. Let’s look at the Subject Terms in the PsycINFO item record we saw earlier
  • 2. 1.I entered the word attractiveness and we see that physical attractiveness is a PsycINFO subject term 2.I entered the phrase school achievement and the PsycINFO subject term for that concept is academic achievement
  • 3. I will redo the search in PsycINFO, leaving the word attractiveness alone, but ADDING the subject phrase academic achievement You ADD synonyms to a search line by separating the synonymous words/phrases with the word or
  • 4. Rather than seeing a result list with 6 items, we now have a result list with 100 items
  • 5. Since PsycINFO includes books, chapters, and doctoral dissertations, as well as material in other languages, you can limit the search to peer reviewed articles in the English language by returning to the Advanced Search screen and checking two boxes: Limit to—Peer reviewed; Language—English
  • 6. After rerunning the search with the limits of peer reviewed and English language applied we have 67 items on our result list