Chelsea writes a great deal about how she taught other UConn graduate students the nifty process of looking to see who's cited an article, and by doing find MORE related articles, and finding seminal articles in a particular field. We both like citation searching databases like Scopus and Web of Science because they let you do some very interdisciplinary searching with a few mouse clicks.
The article was great fun to write, and I hope it gives you some ideas about a novel way of searching.
For More Information
- Hammond, Chelsea C. and Stephanie Willen Brown (2008). Citation Searching: Search Smarter & Find More. Computers in Libraries, Vol. 28 No. 5. Thanks to the folks at Information Today for making the article free online!
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Cognitive scientists, please note: citation searching databases are *excellent* for cognitive science because they are so interdisciplinary.
For instance, in Scopus, a cog sci researcher could find articles in the fields of psychology, medicine, computer science, business, biology, etc. -- so one search yields articles in lots of different areas.
See if your library has Scopus or Web of Science and check out the new material you find on your topic!
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