Follow the instructions attached below.

Name: Ruby Baranbo

Worksheet for Exercise 2 – Literature Searches

Be sure you are accessing the internet through the VPN Software. (See the library website for how to do this)

This exercise will give you some ideas for starting searches on topics in which you are interested.

Also, please type your answers using an easily readable color that is not black so that we can clearly differentiate your answers from the instructions (or, if you do black, then please highlight it like this).

A. Finding an article from a news release:

1. Go to this website: http://www.sciencedaily.com/

a. This website contains news releases about recent research in any scientific discipline.

b. There are no articles on this site, just news releases about recent research studies and you will find some pretty good research ideas here.

2. Try a search on your social science major: for example, sociology or psychology or “economics,” etc.

a. You may also search on a social science topic of interest instead: for example, global warming, voting, immigration, etc.

3. Select one of the news releases that interest you.

4. Make a note of the following – type in your answers:

a. Search term used: International relations

b. Title of the Press Release in Science Daily: Politics and perceptions: social media, politics collide in new study

c. Date of the press release (month and year): October 2013

d. Name of researcher(s): Lindsey Hoffman

e. Affiliation of researchers (University or Research Center): University of Delaware

f. Name of the Journal the research is published in: Computers in Human Behavior

g. Issue the research is published in (month is mentioned most likely, although sometimes it will state “current issue” in which it is probably the same month as the news release) November

h. One to two sentences about what the researchers found: The researchers found that people view their online political actions as a way to communicate, not as a way to influence the government. They also found that emotional messages from candidates only motivate people who are already involved in politics.

B. Finding a book and article by topic:

1. Go to the UCI Library website: uci.lib.edu. On this page, you’ll see a large search bar, which is the main search tool for looking through our campus’ holdings as well the holdings of our partner institutions.

2. We are going to search for book on popular culture. Type “popular culture” in the search bar and then click the magnifying glass (or press return/enter on your keyboard). This will open a new tab/window with your results. On rhe left, look for where it says “Resource Type.” A few lines below that, you’ll see it say “Show More”; click that. Look for where it says “Books”; click that. Now look at the results and scroll until you find a book you find interesting (you’re welcome to find the top result interesting).

a. Search term used: popular culture

b. Author(s): David M Haugen, Susan Musser

c. Title: Popular culture

d. Library Call No: only ebook available, no call number

e. Publisher: Greenhaven Press

f. Year of Publication: 2011

g. How can you access it: physical book in our libraries, ebook in our libraries, interlibrary loan from a partner library, other: ebook from UCI library

3. Search in the library for a journal article on a topic of interest to you. Use one of the “Databases to get you started” options. Type in the following information:

a. Author(s): John Lewis Gaddis

b. Title: International Relations Theory and the End of the Cold War

c. Journal: JSTOR

d. Date: no date available

e. Volume and Issue: Volume 17 No. 3

f. Pages: p. 5-58

g. Can you access the article? yes

4. Narrow down one of the above topics ( like popular culture) to a very specific topic and find another book or journal article. For example, for a narrow topic on popular culture, you might find an article or book TV viewership habits. Or you can search on gender, age, etc.

a. Type in the information for either the book you located or the journal article as you did above.

b. Author: Caroline Kennedy-Pipe

c. Title: International History and International Relations Theory: A Dialogue beyond the Cold War

d. Journal: JSTOR

e. Date: Oct, 2000

f. Volume and Issue: Volume 76 No. 4

g. Pages: p. 741-754

h. Can you access the article: yes

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