Seminar

Aim of today's seminar...

• To provide students with supplementary strategy and techniques on finding relevant journal articles.

• I don't know...

• Forced to be here...

• Because Dr Soon Tat said attendance is compulsory.

Why are journal articles crucial for researchers?

• I don't know...my brain is absent

• To obtain research funding >.<

• For literature review

• To be famous

Where can I access free databases?

• Wiley Library

• ProQuest

• NuSearch

• Scimago

Boolean operators?

• And/Yet/Not

• Or/Not/But

• Not/And/If

• Or/And/Not

Truncation?

• ( )

• • * *

• ##

• ??

Wildcards?

• ~ ~

• • * *

• '' "

• ? ?

Alternate terms for peer reviewed articles?

• Scholarly articles

• Refereed articles

• Potential articles

• Academic articles

What should I consider when evaluating sources?

• Author's field of expertise

• Sample size

• Low impact factor

• Peer reviewed articles

How old can references or source be in a thesis?

• less than 10 years old

• less than 5 years old

• Does not really matter ''-.-

• Most relevant to you research

Are peer reviewed articles 100% reliable? Yes / No and why...

• No, despite peer reviewed, errors can still exist

• Yes, it has been rigorously reviewed by experts

• No, it may have been rejected multiple times

• Yes, peer reviewed papers are better quality than non-peer reviewed