1. FOLLOW
THAT
CITATION!
FOOTNOTE CHASING AND
CITED REFERENCE SEARCHING

2. HAVE YOU EVER COME
ACROSS A REALLY GOOD
ARTICLE AND WISHED
THERE WERE MORE LIKE IT?

3. YOU’RE IN LUCK!

4. YOU CAN FIND MORE
ARTICLES ON THE SAME
TOPIC BY USING
FOOTNOTE CHASING
AND
CITED REFERENCE SEARCHING

5. FOOTNOTE CHASING
IS THE PRACTICE OF FINDING
CITATIONS IN THE REFERENCES
OF RELEVANT ARTICLES AND
READING THE REFERENCED ARTICLES.

6. IT IS A WAY OF LOOKING
BACK
AT WHAT RESEARCH WAS DONE
BEFORE THAT PUBLICATION.

7. CITED REFERENCE SEARCHING
IS FINDING OUT WHO HAS
CITED THE RELEVANT ARTICLE
SINCE ITS PUBLICATION.

8. IT IS A WAY OF LOOKING
FORWARD
INTO WHAT RESEARCH WAS DONE
AFTER THAT PARTICULAR ARTICLE.

9. BUT WHERE DO
WE FIND THAT
INFORMATION?

10. CITED REFERENCE SEARCHING
CAN BE MORE DIFFICULT THAN
FOOTNOTE CHASING BECAUSE
THE CITATIONS AREN’T RIGHT IN
FRONT OF YOU.

11. LUCKILY,THERE ARE A FEW
DATABASES THAT HAVE
COMPILED THAT DATA.

12. BUT THE DATA IN EACH
DATABASE IS ONLY AS GOOD
AS THE DATA IT HOLDS.

13. SO A PARTICULAR DATABASE
WILL ONLY TELL YOU HOW MANY
ARTICLES IN THAT DATABASE
HAVE CITED A SPECIFIC ARTICLE.

14. SO WE MAY NEVER KNOW
EVERY ARTICLE THAT HAS
CITED A SPECIFIC ARTICLE.

15. BUT TO HELP US GET THE DATA
WE CAN FIND, WE CAN USE
WEB OF SCIENCE
GOOGLE SCHOLAR

16. GOOGLE SCHOLAR
CLICK ON THE “CITED BY” LINK UNDER THE ARTICLE
TO SEE THE ‘GET IT @ GVSU’ LINK AT HOME, LOOK FOR
LIBRARY LINKS ON THE SCHOLAR PREFERENCES PAGE

17. WEB OF SCIENCE
NOT AS MUCH NURSING LITERATURE.

18. QUESTIONS
?
ASK YOUR
LIBRARIAN
www.gvsu.edu/library

19. CREDITS
SLID E ONE http://www.flickr.com/photos/dm-set/3435246555/sizes/o/