Citation Searching

 

PART ONE

1. Allardt, E. 1993. “Having, Loving, Being: An Alternative to the Swedish Model of Welfare Research.” In Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, eds., The Quality of Life, 88-94. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Type of item: This reference contains the word “in”, page numbers, publisher, and place of publication which indicates a book chapter.  

Where I would search: I looked in the Search It catalog under the title of the book, The Quality of Life and found both an eBook and print book listed.

How to get the item: Since we are not currently attending classes on campus, I would first see about getting a copy of the eBook. I would first click on online access and then the link next to ‘full text available at’ under access options. This will bring up an online copy of the book from Oxford Scholarship Online.  I would not need to read the entire book, as this references pages 88-94 in a specific chapter. This online version has links to open the book at whatever chapter I need, so I can go straight to the chapter referenced. Generally, I prefer doing my research utilizing print materials. WSU does not have a copy of this book, so I would need to request it through ILLiad.  However, since I only want to see just the one chapter, it would be fastest to simply access the online version of the book.

2. Beck, Ulrich. 1992. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Sage, London.

Type of item: Although this item has both publisher and place, there are no page numbers and this reference does not have the word “in” suggesting that this refers to the entire book entitled Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity.  

Where I would search: Again, I would look in the Search It catalog for this book.

How to get the item: There is no eBook listed in the catalog, and after clicking on the title of the book, I see that our library does not carry this book, so I would need to request a copy of the book be sent through ILLiad.

3. Dake, Karl. 1991. “Orienting Dispositions in the Perception of Risk: An Analysis of Contemporary World Views and Cultural Biases.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 22 (1): 60-81.

Type of item: This is an article in a journal.

Where I would search: First, I would check to make sure WSU has a subscription to the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology by limiting my Search It search to WSU Vancouver.

How to get the item:  All WSU campuses do have access to this journal through SAGE complete, so I would be able search for the full text article by article title, author’s name, or by date and issue number.

4. Fischhoff, B. 1990. “Psychology and Public Policy: Tool or Toolmaker?” American Psychologist 45: 647-653.

Type of item: This is also an article in a journal.

Where I would search:  Again, I would make sure WSU has a subscription to the journal referenced. In this case, I would search for American Psychologist.

How to get the item: All WSU campuses have access to this journal through Proquest, so I would be able to search for this article by article title, author’s name, or by date and issue number as well.

 

PART TWO

1)      From “Back to the Future: Lessons Learned from the 1919 Influenza Pandemic”, I selected the following references:

 

Ashely, E. A., Pyae Phyo, A., and Woodrow, C. J., (2018). Malaria. Lancet 391, 1608-1621. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30324-6

Type of Item: This is an article in a journal.

Where would I search: I searched for Lancet in Search It, limited to Vancouver to see if WSU has a subscription.

How to get the item: All WSU campuses have access to Lancet through Elsevier Clinical Key, so I should have been able to simply enter the article name, author names, or find the article by date and issue number. Unfortunately, my internet connection was running a bit slow and I kept getting an error message. I also have the option to order a copy of the article through interlibrary loan. However, I decided to see what would happen when I entered the doi in the search bar of my browser. It brought up options to access the article through several websites that would allow me to view the entire article free of charge.

 

Audubon, (2018). Audubon’s Birds and Climate Change Report. Available online at: http://climate.audubon.org (Accessed May 6, 2018).

Type of item: This is a website.

Where would I search: I just clicked the link from the reference above. Entering the website address into the search bar of any search engine should bring up the same page.

How to get the item: Clicking the link (or entering the web address) brought me to the Audubon website to a page headed with the phrase “Two-thirds of North American birds are at increasing risk of extinction from global temperature rise.” There is a subheading entitled, “Survival by degrees: 389 Bird Species on the Brink”. Scrolling down provides an interactive look at how changing climate is impacting birds in North America. Even further down is a link to a special climate issue of the Audubon magazine which has a current report (2019) of birds and climate change. This site appears to be regularly updated, and I was unable to find the 2018 report that might have been accessed May 6, 2018 cited in the reference.

 

2)      From “Contracting Schizophrenia: Lessons from the Influenza Epidemic of 1918-1919”, I selected the following references:

First MB, Frances A, Pinchus HA. DSM-IV-TR Guidebook. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc; 2004.

Type of item: This is a print book.

Where I would search: I did a search through Search It in the WSU Libraries and Summit using the book title.

How to get the item: The book is not available through WSU so I would need to order it. There is a notification that it could take up to 8-10 days to receive the book, so I would need to be sure to order it early enough to be of use for my research assignment.

 

Menninger KA. Psychoses associated with influenza, I: general data: statistical analysis, JAMA. 1919; 72(4):235-241

Type of item: This is an article in a journal.

Where I would search: I made sure WSU Vancouver has a subscription to JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) by limiting Search It to Vancouver.

How to get the item: This journal is available to all WSU campuses through American Medical Association Current and I was able to access the full article by both entering author’s name and article title. I also pulled up the original article from which the reference was taken and clicked the reference which brought me to the same page.

PART THREE

I almost forgot this part! I actually loved this assignment. Last year, I stumbled upon a link to a referenced article imbedded in the reference section of one I was assigned to read for a class. This was a game changer for me as it made finding peer reviewed resources so much easier. Unfortunately, these embedded links were only available to me when I was using the library computers, and I was unsure how to access those particular databases from home. I used this lesson step by step to find those links from home. Now, as I approach graduation in May, I wonder if I will be able to access any of these types of databases (I am not even hoping for embedded links in reference sections) through the local libraries ILLead systems?