Discussion - Email privacy(cryptography)

Accessing the Library's Information Systems Research Guide

Step 1: Accessing the Research Guides Begin on the UC Library homepage. Click on the RESEARCH GUIDES tab and click BROWSE ALL RESEARCH GUIDES.

Step 2: Finding Your Discipline Scroll to find the discipline you are researching in the list.

(The Information Systems Research Guide direct link is: https://ucumberlands.libguides.com/security) Step 3: Top Resources The TOP RESOURCES box shows the recommended databases for the discipline.

(I recommend beginning your search with the following databases:)

 ACM Digital Library

 IEEE/IET Electronic Library (IEL)

 Sage Premier

Step 4: Beginning a Search with ACM Digital Library The recommended databases above include scholarly journal articles and papers presented at conferences. You can perform a single keyword search on the main search page. If you have multiple keywords to search, it is important look for the ADVANCED SEARCH option to access additional search boxes.

Example: As an example, you could use “cyber security” in the first search box and “defense” in the second search box. You can even use the phrase “national defense” in the second box to make the search more specific. To get additional search boxes in ACM Digital Library, click the + after the search box in the Advanced Search. Note: When searching for “cyber security” make sure to search it as two words instead of the single “cybersecurity”. Searching as two words will yield more results. The concept in the first box is combined with AND (not seen on the search) to the concept in the second box. The AND between the concepts means that both concepts will be found in the articles.

Step 4a: Beginning a Search with IEEE/IET Electronic Library When searching with IEEE/IET Electronic Library, you can select the Full Text & Metadata above the search boxes after selecting ADVANCED SEARCH. This will include these terms being found in the full text of the articles as well as the Metadata (abstract/summary, title of article/paper, indexing/subject terms). By default, IEE/IET will search “Metadata Only”. You can expand your search by clicking “Full Text & Metadata” to get more results, however some of the results may not be as quite on topic.

Many of the periodicals included in IEEE/IET Electronic Library and ACM Digital Library are scholarly. Both of these databases also include a large number of conference proceedings. All the journals included in Sage Premier are Scholarly/Peer Reviewed. We have access to many of the articles in these databases, but there may be some articles that we cannot access. If the article shows the PDF Full-Text link, it is available. An important thing to remember when searching databases for Peer Reviewed/Scholarly articles is to make sure that your material is classified as scholarly and not popular. There are many factors to look for to determine if an article or journal is a scholarly source. Scholarly sources will most likely denote the academic credentials of the contributor (for example, Ph.D. etc.). Scholarly journals and articles will also contain an abstract of the article along with references or footnotes. If you are having difficulty determining scholarly/peer reviewed articles and journals from popular ones, please follow the link to the instruction video. Step 4b: Beginning a Search with Sage Premier

All the article results when performing a search in Sage Premier will be Scholarly/Peer Reviewed articles. When clicking Advanced Search, you will see the options to search multiple keywords or limit your search to specific journals. You can also perform a Citation Search if you know the exact location information of your article.

Using Sage Premier for an Advanced Search Sage Premier is a great database that covers a variety of disciplines and includes only Scholarly/Peer Reviewed journals. Sage Premier is not limited to only Information Systems. You may see Sage Premier as a Top Resource in the Research Guides for multiple disciplines. When you click Sage Premier, you will access the Advanced Search page. Advanced Search gives you the opportunity to add multiple search boxes for all your keywords. Multiple search boxes are combined with the linking term “and”; however, you can also combine similar terms inside the search by using the linking word “or” (For example: Cyber security “or” network defense). You can also add a publication year range and set limiters on the Advanced Search page. The limiter “Only Content I Have Access To” will only show results for full-text articles. You may notice there is no limiter for “Scholarly/Peer Reviewed”. This is because all the articles found through Sage are scholarly/peer reviewed articles. Step 5: Explore Other Areas of the Research Guides Page

You don’t have to limit your searches strictly to the databases. Explore the Research Guides page and you may find additional helpful information to use in your research!