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Using Online Databases

YEY RESEARCH !. Using Online Databases. What are Scholarly Databases?. Professionals in various fields conduct scientific research and publish their research to share their ideas with other professionals and people

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Using Online Databases

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  1. YEY RESEARCH! Using Online Databases

  2. What are Scholarly Databases? • Professionals in various fields conduct scientific research and publish their research to share their ideas with other professionals and people • Their articles are published in professional newsletters, periodicals, and scholarly journals. Scholarly journals are specific publications dedicated to research in a certain field • Often – but not all the time - to be published in a journal, the article has to be reviewed by a groups of peers – other professionals. It must be accepted as good research.

  3. Scholarly databases are collections of the citations and full texts of the journal articles • These databases are searchable by keywords for subjects, authors, titles, etc. • By selecting certain limiters you are able to find specific and professional information written by experts in the field

  4. What kind of information can you find in a scholarly database? • Newspaper Articles • Magazine Articles • Newsletters • Scholarly Research (articles, case studies, etc.) • Collections of citations (bibliographies)

  5. How do you find the information? • Be sure you know what you are looking for. For example, do you need a newspaper article, or a scholarly article? • Be sure you know which database you need to use. Make sure you are familiar with the databases your library offers. • You will need to use keywords to find the information.

  6. Using Keywords to Search Online

  7. Keyword Searching • Information is made up of words • Information is organized by records – and these records are organized by keywords • You can think about keywords as significant words

  8. Boolean Searching • OR : instructs the database to find information containing BOTH search termsEXAMPLE: cars OR automobiles • AND : instructs the database to only find information containing BOTH search termsEXAMPLE: mosquitos AND malaria • NOT : instructs the database to only find results that do NOT contain a certain wordEXAMPLE: Titanic NOT movie

  9. How do you evaluate the information?

  10. Recommended FREE Databases • Scirus • Scirus.com • PubMed Central • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ • Google Scholar • Google.com/scholar

  11. Scirus.com A science-specific search engine

  12. PubMed Central Archive of journals from National Library of Medicine

  13. Google Scholar Google’s search engine for scholarly journals – NOT science or medicine specific

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