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This lecture provides a guide on effectively using academic databases for research, emphasizing the importance of peer-reviewed sources and strategic search techniques to find relevant scholarly articles.
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welcome everyone this is our library lecture
lecture
um these
these
skills that i'm going to
show you today are transferable to other
places like
universities where you do research but
they're also applicable to public
libraries as well
so even if you don't go on to university
many careers you might go into you want
to be able to be up to date on the
latest information about
now most of you have used google before
and google is very valid for its purposes
purposes
but for academic research you'll
generally want to use academic databases
now i'm not a librarian so my caveat
today is i'm not a librarian but we do
have a library at city college with many
online resources
so if you run into anything or you're
having trouble finding something
or the databases aren't working right
you're going to want to ask the library
for help so they have an email address citylib.sdccd.edu
they also have this handy 247 chat with
a librarian and you can get to that from
um this is a
you can chat with a research librarian and
and um
um
it won't necessarily be a research
librarian at city college it might be at
another college
that the person that you connected with
might be from another college
but um it's there and available 24 7 and
most of the stuff is pretty standard
so if you're having trouble finding something
something
a research librarian can help you
there and there's also more in-depth
information about research using
databases here at library.sdcity.edu
research so
you can check that out if you're curious
first things first if you haven't
already you're going to want to read the
written assignment instructions so that
you at least know why we're doing this
but also so you can try search terms for
a topic that you might actually choose
for your written assignment
the written assignment instructions are
now today we're going to focus on what
are called peer-reviewed sources so the
articles you're going to search for are
going to be peer-reviewed so in the
written assignment instructions
i included a little blurb
about what peer-reviewed means and so
basically when
researchers and scientists conduct a
study and they write up an article
kind of describing what they found
they'll submit it to a journal right for publication
publication
and then that article gets put through a
peer-reviewed process so basically
if a journal is a peer-reviewed journal
what it does is it sends that article
out to
other experts in the field right
right
those experts
review your article look at your
research they critique it
they send it back
to you
you respond to all the critiques you
make edits to your article
basically it's a and then it's a process
where you kind of go back and forth a
little bit with these experts in the field
field and
and
if these experts in the end approve of
your research and they think you did a
and that your research is valuable
they'll approve it for publication in
the journal right
right
and so the goal here is to make sure
that these articles contain quality research
research
and that the authors are not making wild
claims based on poorly collected and
analyzed data okay
okay
so when you're searching these databases
there's going to be a little option that
you can
check a box that says that you only want
search results from scholarly peer
reviewed journals and i'll show you that
okay
so things to know in general when using
databases you want to
know about word choice um
um
so what search terms you're actually
going to use
how to combine different words and also
what fields to type words in so what do
we mean by word choice
so let's say your topic
you want to write about the relationship
between sleep and learning right
right so
so
what do you think are the most important
probably you're going to come up with
sleep and learning okay that's great
relationship although a very important
word um
in the topic it probably isn't a word
you'll want to use so
so
just because not all articles will use
the word relationships
there could be articles about sleep and learning
learning
that say how sleep helps learning right
so they might use the word help
or how getting enough sleep
helps the cognitive process or something
like that
and you're missing articles because
you're using the word relationship um
you really just want the really
meaty words like sleep and learning
now let's think of some alternative
terms these can be broader terms or
narrower terms
or synonyms for sleeper learning
so can you think of any
i can think of a few
memory for learning cognition
behavior
behavior for learning it's a very very
broad term but might as well throw it
rem could be used for sleep maybe you're
only interested in the rem stage of sleep
sleep
you could search non-rem or slow wave sleep
right these are just some possibilities
so we've come up with some search terms
and now we want to talk about how to
combine terms so i'm going to use a venn
diagram to illustrate this
so if we're searching a database that
has articles about sleep
and we search that same database
for articles about learning
and if we combine these two words sleep
and learning with an and
we'll only get this stuff here in the middle
middle right
right
so and
narrows things down right
right
so if we say
let's say we want to search sleep and
learning and we want to throw in a third
search term like something like school
right so that's not a term we would use
for our topic necessarily but just to
illustrate this
we have this so now we have three things
we're combining
if we combine these three things with
the word and we'll only get this much right
right um
um so
so
this word and
when it combines terms it will narrow
our results so we'll get fewer results
the more words
most databases will default to the word and
and
even if we don't specify but that's not
always the case not all of them do this
a lot of them they have
they have little automatic algorithms
underneath everything that will take
over if you don't tell them what to do
our goal here is we want to take control
of the databases and manipulate them
effectively to get what we need out of them
so now let's talk about the word or
so if you put sleep and learning and
then you combine them with the word or
you get everything right
right
you get everything about sleep
everything about learning and everything
about both
you're gonna get things about
about
you know everything about how to get a
child to sleep if they're sick all kinds
of sleep topics that have nothing to do
with learning
over here you're going to get things
about learning
um so learning how to read in the third
grade things that have nothing to do
with sleep
so really what we're interested in is
this middle part
so we're going to use and we're going to
okay
and so when trying different search terms
terms
it's nice to list them out like this
because what you can do is you can combine
combine
anything that means sleep with anything
that means learning right so we could do
sleep and learning
we could do sleep and memory sleep in cognition
cognition
we could do learning and
you could also do ram and memory right
right
so there's a bunch of different search possibilities
possibilities
so first you're going to going you're
going to go to the main city home page
that's at sdcity.edu
and this is what it looks like
and at the top you'll see a library tab
and that's the easiest way to get to the
library's website
this is the library home page
on the left here there's some
information about how to get help
there's the 24 7 chat with a librarian
but we're going to go over here and
now
this page has a list of all the
different databases to choose from
you're only going to want to choose
use a couple of these this has
everything that you could be interested
in all across city college
but we're in a psychology department
so let's start with a database called
academic search complete
there's another one that's a psychology
specific one down in the p's but let's
stick with academic search complete for now
now
if you click on this it's going to ask
you to log in if you haven't already so
you'll need your student id and your
password is just your last name
so you enter that stuff in and log in
and then it takes you to
academic search complete
now when you use any of these databases
you'll always want to use the advanced
search to get more search options
so we're going to click on advanced search
and we'll be using this box for our
searches right so
let's type in
sleep and learning
right and we're going to use the word and
and
but then there's also
these fields over here that you can
so there's a whole bunch of different
ones to choose from so which what do we
want do we want
the text of the article
so this will search for these terms in
the text of the entire article
are we just looking for an author or do
we want to choose the title field
so i believe the default
is that it'll search the title author
and the abstract
the abstract is just an academic word
for summary
so i'm going to leave it at the default
and not select one of these
because i want to search the
title author and abstract
so i hit search
on sleep and learning and
i get some results
look i get
4556 results that's a lot of articles
so one thing you can do
is you can kind of look over here at
these subjects
at your underneath each of your results
and sometimes you'll get alternative
search terms here so this can be pretty
helpful too even if you know these
aren't the specific results you want you
can get an idea for other search terms
to use
so look here's sleep wake cycle that
might be a good one
right so i might write that down for later
later
so this helps you find more terms if
you're having trouble getting what you
want and you can redo your searches
so let's say i wanted to change it from
sleep to sleep wake cycle right since
it's multiple words i have to put that
word in quotes
and that way it will treat it just as
so i'll put sleep wake cycle and quotes
in quotes and look at that it narrowed
it down to 552 results
so you're going to want to use these
things here on the left
one of
these is you want to check the box that
says limit to full text
and so
this will narrow your results to only
include ones that have the full text of
the article in them as opposed to just
and you'll also want to click on this
scholarly peer-reviewed journals
journals
box because right now it's searching for
everything so there's books
and videos and other stuff but for this
assignment you're only going to use
peer-reviewed so make sure you check
you can also narrow it down
by publication date if you want
to so if you want more recent articles
and so you'll want to do
several searches to get a feel for
what's out there
so you're going to have to go in and
poke around and try different search
so that you can find the articles that
now another thing you can do is truncation
truncation
so let me show you this so if you
if you type in the word sleep with an
asterisk at the end
right so an asterisk is just you hit
shift 8 on your keyboard and you'll type
an asterisk
and so what this does is this will
search for sleep and any
other form of sleep so any any letters
that come after the
the letters in the word sleep so you'll
get sleep sleeping sleeps
sleeper and so forth
you can do it to learn
learning too so if you do learn asterisk
you'll search learn learns learning learner
learner
and so that's another trick with these
databases so you'll get more results
and
let's see another thing to point out if you
you
see something that you want to look at later
later
you can click on this folder icon next
to it and once you click on that it will
add it to this little folder at the top
and so this can be very helpful when
you're going through and you're thinking
yeah i wanna i wanna check that out i
wanna check that out i wanna check that
so this was academic search complete
this was that database but maybe you'll
want to try a different database so
so
go back to the city college home page
this is just the quickest way
to go back
especially if you did a ton of searches
and you're going to want to click the
from there we click a to z databases
and from there we'll want to scroll down
to the ps
and there's this database called
psychology and behavioral sciences collection
collection
that you can use too
so this one might have different
articles than academic search complete
there's probably going to be a lot of
overlap but they might have some
different articles too
so again you're going to want to click
on advanced search
and you can see it's similar setup for
entering your search terms
now this database might have different
articles so you'll have to poke around
now the library pays to access
a lot of these articles
they cost money generally but um we can
access the ones that city college pays
for for free by using their databases
but if you want to go outside the
library databases
one good resource for neuroscience
articles is pubmed.gov
now this is outside the library so not
you know they're not going to have a ton
of free stuff but sometimes you can find
free articles
whatever you do do not pay for anything
for this assignment it is not worth it
it's very expensive
if you
if you find an article that you hit a
paywall for
and you really really really really want it
it
you think it's going to be
perfect for your paper
but you can't get access to it because
you hit a paywall just email me the
author's names
the year it was published
and the title of the article i need
those three items
and i'll see if i can find it i might
not be able to find it but maybe i can i
some things that city college does not
have access to
so if you find something and you hit a
paywall just send me an email and i'll
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