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Finding Articles - Community Unit (RJ6)

Directions: Answer the following questions about using databases to find articles and other periodicals.

1.You should now have a solid understanding of the print holdings available in our library. It's time to focus on the largely digital periodical resources held digitally by our library. Go to the library homepage and click on the DATABASES tab.

2. Once you click the link, you should see a table with four columns under the word “databases”. Name each of the columns here and define the term database.

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Database: (Feel free to google a definition, but be critical here. Consider who might have built databases and what purposes they might serve to students and others.)

3. Working with some of your peers, compile a list of the databases that might help you find more information you need. Rank the databases that you should search, number them in the order they might give you quality sources.

4. As a class, let's start by searching Academic Search Premier together.

5. Enter one of your previously established search terms, and see what you get. Most likely, you will see far too many hits with just one broad search term. Take minute to examine the search terms and results from your surrounding peers. Feel free to revise your search terms based on what you learn from each other.

6. Once you’ve settled on a starting search term, pause and examine the page you’re given after starting a search. Find at least five ways to narrow your results (beyond just changing the search terms) and list them. Consider how effective and how fast they will help you find information on your question.

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7. Apply one of these limiters. After applying this first limiter, what do you notice about our results list?

8. After sufficiently narrowing your results to a manageable level (fewer than 50 hits but more than 10), use the Add to Folder button to collect a prospective list of articles. Scanning the titles, which ones seem potentially useful to you? Why?

8. After adding a few articles to our folder, let's look in the Folder and begin sorting the articles that we should keep and the ones that we should delete. Click on an article. Discuss the articles you’re finding with your peers.

9. How can we use the Subject Terms and/or Author-Supplied Keywords? Where have we seen a similar feature?

10. Determine if reading this article will help us answer your research question? Should we keep or delete this article?

11. You should initially find one article to read and summarize. In around 300 words, articulate a “big picture” assertion—telling what the source is about/accomplishes, overall. Also explain major “key points” from the source that help the summary to be more thorough or clear.

You’ll also need a 200 word evaluative summary that uses TRAAP.

Include the bibliographic entry, 300 word summary, and 200 word evaluation with this Research Journal Entry, and add a copy to the Community Unit Source Pool.

12. You may need to find additional articles and build additional entries using sources from these databases.