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Ok, I give up. I failed, to dumb to get it on my own. I was reading the Blank Slate by Steven Pinker and am trying to make my way through his references on the chapter on Gender and tracking down specific studies is proving to be very difficult. Geary,1998 is referenced many times, but my googling shows online one study on MRT’s. How do I track down an individuals studies with sifting through randomness on google?
Is there a book or really in depth article/youtube video that goes through the process of teaching someone how to look this stuff up on your own? I am a College Student so I have access to many online journals. Help =’’’’’’(
Just a super quick edit, please, please, please, please, please do not turn this into a political discussion. I’m interested in a a prominent author’s book and am now verifying references. I’m not making any political stances or arguments here, just want to know how to work online journals better and look up references more quickly.
Your school’s library’s website must have a database search where you can search by author, journal title, volume, year, and many more criteria. This list of other databases may also be useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_academic_databases_and_search_engines
Whatever book you’re reading probably has complete citations either at the end of each chapter or at the end of the book, so it should be trivial to find any given publication online (on the other hand, accessing said publication may be difficult if it’s behind a paywall that your school doesn’t provide access to…).
Both of the above.
Google Scholar is the quickest way to do this, and usually if you search it while connected to your school’s network (or log into your schools library proxy through it, which is slightly more complicated), it’ll automatically link you to your school library’s copy of the article. Finding things is easier if you add a few key words to the author and year.
Your school’s library should also have a database search you can do, like through EBSCOHost, PsycInfo, ProQuest, etc. You may also be able to search all of those databases through an omni-database on your school’s library website. The library website is great because it’ll automatically link you to any copy of the article your university library owns.
I am looking at the citations, but there is a shorthand in Psych that I am now hating. If it were up to me I would make it mandatory for the location the reference was taken from to be listed.
It is! I haven’t read Blank State, but Steven Pinker is a Harvard psychologist and I suspected he had a references section in the back of his book. He does. The complete reference (including the book or scientific journal the article was taken from) should be there.
In electronic journals, the reference even includes a DOI number - DOI standing for digital object identifier. It makes it super easy to find items - you can just search for that and it’ll come up.
@juillet, I’m dumb, lol. I was looking at the Notes section which is in short hand. Right after the Notes section there is a reference section in alphabetical order.