1. EG1413 Critical Thinking and Writing Project: Research Ethics (RE) - How to search for information Karen Yap Engineering/Computer Science Resource Team, NUS Central Library September 2010
15. Some Alternative/Related Terms for Concepts Chances are more alternative terms will be revealed as you do your search Ethics Researcher Alter Medication Consent Principle Doctor Change Medicine Knowledge Moral Research Drugs Agree Experiment Treatment Study
16. Boolean Operators OR represents a union of sets. The resulting set gets bigger. Set A: Fruits Durian OR Mango OR Lettuc e OR Tomato Durian Mango Set B: Vegetables Lettuce Tomato Set A OR Set B:
17. Boolean Operators AND represents an intersection of sets. The resulting set gets smaller. Tomato Fruits AND Vegetables (Durian Mango Lettuce Tomato ) Set A AND Set B
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22. Connect concepts with AND (researcher* OR doctor* OR experiment* OR study OR studies) ( alter* OR change* ) ( consent* OR acknowledge OR agree * ) ( Medication OR medicine OR drug* OR treatment ) (ethic* OR principle* OR moral * ) AND AND AND AND
28. Click Important to note: .. academic research … not for commercial purposes
29. If this screen appears, type in student domain and backslash nusstu a_______
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31. Click on Search tab Click on Search Builder tab
32. 1) Type in “Research ethics” and Singapore* 3) Change date to required dates. The end date could be a near-future date 2) Change to Enter date range 4) Click Run Search
33. 5) Change sorting to by Relevance 7) Scroll down for more categories like Industries, Keywords, Subjects 6) If Identify Duplicates in Off, change it to Similar so that it becomes On Avoid clicking here because it will close the Discovery Pane
34. Sections in Discovery Pane 8) Click on Ethical Issues to retrieve 13 very relevant articles on ethical issues Other headings in the Discover Pane include Sources . You can opt to narrow down to Straits Times . In this example, we are not narrowing it to Straits Times yet
35. 9) Scroll down 10) Note term integrity used. Look out for such words to broaden your search 11) Click Modify Search to get back to first screen
36. 11) Search terms changed to Research* and (ethic* or integrity ) and Singapore*
37. 414 hits obtained after revising search to: Research* and (ethic* or integrity ) and Singapore* Scroll down to see Keywords , etc Possible topics for your position paper: stem cell, therapeutic cloning Possible new keywords to broaden search if necessary: breaches
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39. If you need more alternative terms, double click on selected term (in this case integrity ) in search statement, then on Concept Explorer [Beta] … adhere Impropriety Accountable Violate..
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41. More articles form the 66 hits that can yield information on what has been done so far to solve RE problems in Singapore Title: Move to plug loopholes in medical research Text: .. followed up with its recommendations … Title: 22 guidelines set for genetic research
42. -Scanning Full Text of Relevant Article for More Leads -How to download full text of article i) Change to Full Article ii) One of the leads: World Conference on Research Integrity. Check availability of proceedings of in Library or internet iv) Click Return to Headlines after viewing full text of article iii) For downloading full text, choose RTF , then Article format
43. One of the hits after Goggling on World Conference on Research Integrity : https://www.wcri2010.org/ -Check relevant links like one highlighted below Click on World Conference on Research Integrity (Lisbon 2007)
44. After clicking on World Conference on Research Integrity (Lisbon 2007) One of items further down this panel is : Invited Papers & Biographies
45. After clicking on Invited Papers & Biographies Current Policies and Policy Development
46. Some items shown after clicking on: Current Policies and Policy Development (PDF - 393 KB) Statistics: 20-30 cases per year…etc E.g. of foreign committee: Special Committee on Research Misconduct 2006 Other examples of RE: Conflict of Interest/non-disclosure E.g. of foreign code: UK ethics code for scientists
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50. Note: After limiting to Singapore sources, only 19 (c.t. 79 hits) are retrieved for same search “Research ethics” and Singapore 19
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52. Another Way of Narrowing Search 18, 656 hits: far too many
56. Remember to click Logout when you have finished
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58. How to use LexisNexis Academic: http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lion/hlb/lexisnexis.pdf Comparing Newspapers Databases Factiva Lexisnexis Academic Advantages -Covers more titles including Channel NewsAsia -Unlimited no. of concurrent users Disadvantages -Limited no. (10) of concurrent users -More difficult to access Singapore newspapers
61. EAI Leave Select the products you want to search as default Click Continue The default databases are: Expanded Academic ASAP LegalTrac which are both relevant
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63. EAI & LegalTrac Default is Keyword search Key in search terms Research and ethics and Singapore here ( “Research ethics” and Singapore yields no hits)
64. EAI & LegalTrac 1) Click on good title Minors and biomedical research in Singapore under the Magazines tab Click to look through 22 items, but they are not very good hits 3 hit under Magazines, 22 under Academic Journals, 2 under News
65. EAI & LegalTrac 2) Click on relevant links like Human Medical Experimentation -Ethical Aspects (527) -Research Ethics (999) Related Subjects
66. EAI & LegalTrac: 3) Click on Academic Journals tab Topic: Ethical aspects of human medical experimentation
67. EAI & LegalTrac: Those with Icons for Full Text : 4) Click to sort by Relevance 5) Click on icon to get full text
69. EAI & LegalTrac: How to get Full-Text When There is No Icon for Full-Text a) Copy title of journal Journal of Medical Ethics b) Note details: 35.7 (July 2009): p. 450(6) 35 means vol 35 .7 means issue 7 (Jul 2009) means Oct 2009 issue of journal p. 450 means page 450 (6) means the article is 6 pages long
70. EAI & LegalTrac: How to get Full-Text When There is No Icon for Full-Text e) Change to Journals Collection c) Click LINC tab d) Paste title Journal of Medical Ethics here
71. EAI & LegalTrac: How to get Full-Text When There is No Icon for Full-Text f) We have hard copies from vol. 8, 1982 to vol. 35, 2009
72. EAI & LegalTrac: How to get Full-Text When There is No Icon for Full-Text g) Key in 2009 here h) Click here
73. EAI & LegalTrac: How to get Full-Text When There is No Icon for Full-Text i) Pg 450 is in this bound volume j) CL Bound Journals is in 5 th floor Central Library
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77. EG1413 Hands-On Sessions Date Time Venue 22 Sep (Wed) 10.00am - 11.30am Training Room, 6 th floor Central Library 23 Sep (Thur) 10.00am – 11.30pm 3.00pm – 4.30pm
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85. There is a lot of information in Subject Guides Click on Subject Guides to see more databases relevant to a particular subject DEMO
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