English 3003

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English 3003

• McFARLIN LIBRARY RESOURCES

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RITA HOWELL

• E-MAIL
• rita-howell_at_utulsa.edu
• PHONE
• 631-2876

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RESEARCH SOURCES

• Online Article Databases
• EBSCOhost
• First Search
• InfoTrac
• JSTOR
• Wiley Interscience
• Science Direct
• Engineering Index

• Library Catalog

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Finding Journal Articles

• Online Article Databases
• First Search
• EBSCOhost
• InfoTrac
• JSTOR
• Wiley Interscience
• Science Direct
• Engineering Index

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Comparing Magazines and JournalsSeveral features
of popular magazines and scholarly journals make
it relatively easy to distinguish one from the
other, once you know what to look for.

• Popular Magazine Scholarly Journal
• Such As Time or Newsweek
  Journal of Psychology
• Advertising Highly visible, glossy, eye
  catching If any, ads are professional
  and related to the field
• Audience General public
  Targeted audience of scholars
  or professionals
• Citations Sources of information NOT fully
  Sources are always fully cited,
  cited and a bibliography is NOT
  footnotes or endnotes are always
  included.
  given.
• Purpose To entertain or inform
  To keep scholars and professionals abreast
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  of new research
  findings and techniques.

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Online Article Databases

• Purpose To identify articles published in the
  professional and scholarly literature on topics
  relevant to your research project.
• All databases provide a citation, many provide an
  abstract, and a few provide the full text of the
  article.

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Locating Journals in McFarlin

• If an online article database was used, but the
  
• article was not available in full text
• you must use the Journal List to find out if
  McFarlin Library subscribes to the journal that
  publishes the article you need.

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Search Screen
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EBSCOhost Databases

• Academic Search Elite
• Business Source Elite
• ERIC
• Health Source Consumer Edition
• Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition

• MasterFILE Premier
• MLA
• MEDLINE
• Newspaper Source
• PsychInfo
• PsychArticles
• Professional Development
• SportDiscus
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FirstSearch Databases

• ArticleFirst
• ECO
• WorldCat

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InfoTrac Databases

• Business And Company Resource Center
• Literature Resource Center

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JSTOR

• JSTOR provides image and full-text online access
  to selected scholarly journals in Arts
  Sciences, Business, Language Literature, and
  more.
• The complete backfiles of core scholarly
  journals have been digitized, starting with the
  very first issues, many of which date from the
  1800s.

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Wiley Interscience

• Wiley Interscience is a searchable database to
  journals and articles published in areas
  including physics, chemistry, biology, medicine,
  business, education, engineering, psychology, and
  computer science.

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Keyword Searching

• Use Boolean Searching

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Definition of Boolean Searching

• Type of computer search that combines terms using
  three operators
• AND
• OR
• NOT
• The operator determines how the computer searches
  its database.

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and

• Computer searches for every record that
  contains all the words in the search

sports and nutrition
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or

• Computer searches for every record that
  mentions at least one search word

United States or Europe
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not

• Computer gives us every record that mentions
  one word but not another

cowboys not Dallas
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Use Boolean Searching because it is

• Powerful
• Flexible
• Versatile
• The Library Catalog
• Online Databases
• Internet
• . . . .and more
• Think Carefully before searching

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Hints for Successful Searching

• Remember what each operator does
• AND / NOT Narrow
• OR Broaden
• Plan carefully
• Develop vocabulary
• Key concepts
• Synonyms
• Search Strategy

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Hints for Successful Searching

• Truncation
• research and psycholog
• Wildcards
• womn

1 Searcher
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QUESTIONS?
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