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How to Find Articles
Finding research articles
1 Why find research articles?
2 What is a research article?
3 Strategies to find research articles
4 Advanced search interface
5 Logistics of how to find full-text articles
6 How to read research articles
What is a research article?
Before we talk about how to find research articles, we have to
agree on what we're looking for. We're looking for scientific
truth. Where do you get it? From a Trustworthy Authority? Give
me a break! (see rant).
Scientific truth resides in research articles. A research article is
one that provides observations or the observed results of
experiments (not merely conclusions) and a description of how
the experiments were performed, in sufficient detail that
someone else might replicate them. You will recognize them by
the detail paid to the methods on which the results were based.
A news report of a scientific finding is not a research article. It
doesn't describe how to do the experiment. A review article is
not a research article. It combines lessons learned from multiple
research articles but, again, does not describe how to do the
experiments it covers.
Strategies to find research articles
If you know the exact title of the article you're looking for, then:
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~elhaij/bnfo300/17/Units/Intro-course/why-find-research-articles.html
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~elhaij/bnfo300/17/Units/Intro-course/how-to-read-articles.html
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~elhaij/bnfo300/17/Units/Intro-course/trustworthy-authority.html
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/lsl/help/modules/review.html
• Your favorite search engine may be the fastest way to reach
the article (if you have its exact title). However, if you're
doing this from off-campus, the site you reach will not
recognize your IP address and not realize that you are a
member of the VCU community and thus deserving of the
full text of articles in journals to which VCU subscribes.
•
• VCU library general search facility is an excellent way of
getting most articles. If you are accessing it from off
campus, you'll be prompted for your eID and password if
needed. But no database is perfect, and you may sometimes
need to look elsewhere.
If you don't know the exact title, then:
• Using a search engines is generally a poor strategy -- too
low of a signal-to-noise ratio
•
• Google Scholar is much better but I haven't used it enough
to know how its database compares to others. Note that
Google Scholar allows advanced searches by clicking the
down arrow in the search box.
•
• For greater flexibility, try dedicated services, such as
PubMed and Web of Sciences.
There are two major strategies to use these indexes to find
research articles (plus one general fallback strategy):
• Keyword search: Looks for articles whose titles, abstracts,
or author lists contain a set of words that you supply. Used
by all the sites. This is what you're already used to.
http://scholar.google.com/schhp? ...
2. Much of this information is not accessible to many
general search engines’ software spiders, so we
need to use specific search tools to lead us to this
hidden information.
Thechallenge to is find what you want, not what
Google thinks you want.
3. • Be clear about what you are looking for! This
part of deep research process requires deep
thinking!
• Decide what the question is
• Be as specific as you can
• Be prepared to revisit this part often
• Use thinking tools like mind maps to clarify your
search request
4. These include specialised search engines,
directories and portals and gateways, databases,
digital libraries and Web 2.0 spaces such as wikis,
blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and topic
aggregators – ScoopiT, Delicious, etc.
5. Meta search engines combine two or more search
engines enabling a simultaneous search
• PolyCola: http://www.polycola.com/ - allows you to
search any two major search engines simultaneously.
• Dogpile: http://www.dogpile.com/ - searches four top
search engines simultaneously.
• Mamma: http://www.mamma.com/ - the mother of all
search engines
6. Google: http://www.google.com
• The Google generation “squirrel” away information.
• There is very little critical evaluation of what is stored.
• It is claimed searching using Google will only provide 30% of internet
content.
• Remember that Google is a business.
• Google has software to supply what it determines you want based on your
previous searches: good or bad?
Try
Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com.au/schhp?hl=en
Google Books: http://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en
8. Directories list websites by category and
subcategory. This makes them great for browsing,
just like you would in a bookshop.
Directories are smaller than search engines but
information is more relevant and grouped together.
9. • Infomine: http://infomine.ucr.edu/
• Yahoo!Directory: http://au.dir.yahoo.com/
• Open Directory: http://www.dmoz.org/
• WWW Virtual Library: http://vlib.org/
• Internet Public Library: http://www.ipl.org/
• Best of the web: http://botw.org
• Galaxy: http://www.galaxy.com
10. A digital library is a library where collections are stored in
digital formats, not print or other media.
Some examples include:
• National Science Digital Library: http://nsdl.org/
• National Library of Australia digital collections:
http://www.nla.gov.au/digicoll/
• Australian pictures in Trove:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/australian-pictures-in-trove
• State Library digitised collections:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/our-collections/digitised-
collections
• DigiMorph (images of morphology of biological specimens):
http://www.digimorph.org/
11. • Become a member of the State Library of Victoria (SLV) so
that you can access their eresources from school or home:
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au
• They provide access to an extensive collection of databases.
• Fill out the online registration form.
• You will be sent your card in the mail.
• You can then use your card details to logon to the databases
and eBooks you want.
12. You are able to customise your searching to suit your
personal learning requirements.
Examples include:
• Google Blogs: http://www.google.com.au/blogsearch?hl=en
• Twitter: microblogging site: https://twitter.com/
• Delicious: social bookmarking: https://delicious.com/
• Scoop.it! – content creator: http://www.scoop.it/
13. Good for basic information about topics, especially
popular culture.
Its value in this context is to “cherry pick” sites at
the end of the entry for further information.
14. Trove- National Library of Australia:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/
Australian Bureau of Statistics: http://www.abs.gov.au/
WolframAlpha – computational knowledge engine:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
There are many, many, many, many more.
Look for url’s ending in .edu, .gov, .org and avoid .com
15. Working out what you know and what you need
to know at the beginning of your research is half
the solution.
Be prepared to revisit all stages of research.
This is not a lineal process.
Consult with the teacher librarians to plan your
research.
Editor's Notes
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