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Forensic Psych CJ/PSYC-3470/3-001 January 14, 2021 Housekeeping - Guest speaker Joshua Herter from the library

Joshua Herter’s Presentation - Sharing various library resources and legal precedence - If you’re on the library homepage, there is a help chat bar on the right-hand side - 9-5 Mon to Thurs and 9-4 Mon to Fri - Appointment scheduler available through the site - Contact Joshua via email - Social media platforms can be used to also communicate - Inventory numbers available and pick-up option where instructions are sent via email - We’ll look further at catalogue, databases and citation

Library Catalogue - 1. Library catalogue: looks specifically at books - It can show what is available at University of Winnipeg and worldwide - If there is a book you need from other places, in normal times the library can get it for you - Some journals are leased and made available to you to access - If you search for forensic psychology there are 62,000 results - Show more or refine search  view eBook  login with webadvisor credentials - If you are unsure what you want to write about, you can start at Wikipedia to get a general sense of what topics you might want to narrow down (i.e. do background reading) - Search “forensic psychology AND springer” - Ex: Handbook of juvenile of psychology and psychiatry from Springer publisher - You can download chapters individually - DSM5 is available via eBook on the library

Databases - 2. A-Z Databases: click on all subjects and choose psychology - PsycInfo or Social Science Citation Index are flagged because they are your best bet - These databases have more powerful tools for the psychology discipline - Search “forensic” and limit to “scholarly journals” - The catalogue may also have non-scholarly materials like news index and humanities that’s why it is helpful to limit to only scholarly journals - Narrow down a population by adding “AND/OR/NOT” which are operators in all databases - The word AND merges two concepts together - The word OR will find articles that have any of those terms for you - The word NOT excludes articles (i.e. removing USA articles) - You can also limit publication dates to find more recent articles - You can also limit articles via methodology used in the study - “forensic AND children AND ethics” produces 141 results from 2005

- To have a more narrow search, you want to focus on concepts in your search bar - In PsycInfo database, there is a thesaurus integrated with all official APA terms - PsycInfo is a general psychology platform, it has got the most psychology information in it - If you search “forensic” the thesaurus gives us an idea of how the term is used in the database - By searching forensic “the term(s) you entered could not be found” this is because forensic is often not used on its own and is combined with another term like assessment - If you click on forensic assessment, it will show that a broader term is forensic evaluation and other related terms - If you click on the broader term, they will give you a scope note - I.e. Search: “Forensic evaluation AND (law OR ethics OR legal) AND (child OR adolescent OR youth)” to provide a narrow search and then limit publication dates - The word child custody kept coming up from the searches - APA definition: legal guardianship of a child - This might be a good term to use as it has legal implications and is an outcome for forensic evaluations; these terms together can tighten down your search even more - Social Sciences Citation Index - Not just a psychology index; it will include more than psychology. It will include sociology - It is more a citation tracking platform rather a journal database - When you go to Web of Science, it has a couple of databases inside - Activate the social sciences citation index and turn off all non-social sciences - Because it is a citations tracking platform, it will show you the most recent articles first, that is the default setting - If you see something published in February or March of 2021, that is a preprint that was already in the database before its technically been published - The search results in recency rather than relevancy as their default - You can switch to time cited which sorts results by number of times they’ve been cited - An article that has been cited many times indicates it is popular (whether those are for good reasons or bad reasons); it indicates there’s a lot of conversation happening around this article - Web Science does best at identifying an area and gives you what is popular - Think of a journal article as a conversation or a well-researched opinion in a particular area, it’s a good place to start and start searching at those “popular conversations” - Once you click on an article, the site will also show you articles that are citing that article - We can see what that author(s) were using as sources to contribute to the study - If you go to the left-hand bar under Refine Results: - You can “search within” which allows you to continue refining your search which is what this is really designed to do - Criminal justice lineup - There’s policy and legal databases in here that would come in handy - Criminal Justice Abstracts will look similar to PsycInfo because it’s the same vendor but it’s a database for criminal justice information - Ex. If you search up forensic evaluation, you will get around 5000 results - You won’t be steeped in the science of psychology, you will be steeped in a little bit broader social science, combined with some legal and ethical sort of policy related topics - This will give you a different angle at whatever topic you’re looking at

- This is not a law database; UofW does not have a law program so there are less heavy-duty resources as compared to UofM simply because there is no justification for it - This database is criminal justice journal article research which is different from law databases - Topics that you can search: crime and policing, racial justice - This database is not as powerful, it does not have a thesaurus and not as advanced because criminal justice does not have a central operating body like APA - Lexis Advance Quicklaw - This is a database of legal information includes Canadian caselaw and legislation - Not going to go over this in great detail because in most cases you’re not going to need it - This is the only legal and comprehensive Canadian data legal base we have access to - Broken down into four big categories: cases, historical legislation, cases versus law, secondary materials which include law journals - If you’re looking for court cases, this is a good place to start - There are differences between court cases, tribunal decisions, case summaries, pleadings, motions – you can also search by jurisdiction - Search child custody  general court decisions (Canadian-focused) - You can also narrow down your searches to just case law in Manitoba - Tip: when you’re looking at legal databases, it helps to be as specific as possible

Questions - S1: Can you please show how to go to the Web of Science platform again? - P: Go to library.uwinnipeg.ca  click on databases  limit subjects to psychology  click on social sciences web of sciences (flagged) - S2: Is J store a good site database? - P: It can be for legacy and seminal work – it’s not going to be as good for the latest and greatest research and it’s not going to be as good for recency, just by the way it works. I wouldn’t start there. I would start in PsycInfo. J store could be good if you were doing history of psychology research or it might be better for really classic stuff like doing an overview on Freud. It won’t be bad for you, but I just wouldn’t start there.

Citations - There are a couple of citation platforms/managers out there that will help you manage citations - Let’s say I am in the general library catalogue and search up “forensic evaluation” you can click on an article and then click “cite” button at any point and select citation style - APA 7th edition came out in the fall and the library is catching up with transitioning - It’s a good place to start because it will format it for you but it is only good as the metadata that gets put into it so if a person put a period out of place somewhere along the way, you are still responsible for figuring that out - You can “cite” from all of the databases - There are tools to export the citations - There is still access to RefWorks currently, but we are going to lose access shortly because it is extremely expensive - Zotero is a citation manager that is open source and freely available and is just as powerful as anything else that is out there that you pay for

- You have to sign up but it free - You can import these in a number of ways, or create folders to organize your citations - If you have downloaded a PDF, you can drag and drop it onto Zotero - Not necessarily useful for someone only needing to do one psychology course, but if you’re in grad school and you need to establish a database where your research topic is something you might carry with you, this might be more useful for you to invest in - There are a couple other managers like Mendeley, but you have to pay for the more advanced features and they also collect a bunch of data from you - We do not recommend software that collects all your information while you’re using it - Professor: One of the things that I am going to ask the students to do with respect to their research is to identify a key journal article that I was hoping that they could send me a PDF for, and I know in the past you mentioned there’s a right way and a wrong way to do that. - Josh: This is somewhat illegal, and we classify certain things as being low risk and high risk activities. Low risk is sending an article via e-mail, we prefer you not do it. It’s not the act that is criminal, it’s just we don’t know what you’re going to do with it, so as an organization we just have those things in place. What we always prefer you do is share the link itself, not the article. Always look for the link button wherever you are, copy and paste that. It will then send you to this page, you’ll have the article, you’ll have the title and metadata, and access button. It’ll also show you where it’s coming from – you, then, have all the information you need to locate it yourself. If you have a PDF, you can’t always backtrack on the information of where you got that from, so it is useful in this way to just send the link. If you have a broken link, we can help to identify it and figure out what the problem is there, too. - Professor: Thanks, there’s always something new to note down and use in the future....