Basic Catalog Using call numbers to locate items. Basic Database Searching Using databases to find articles on topics, retrieving Full-text articles, and using limiters.

1. LIBRARY INSTRUCTION
ANN D. CANNON

2. Introduction
When you are doing research in college, your professors will specify that you
use scholarly journals, academic journals or peer-reviewed journals when
writing to support your ideas, your papers and projects.

3. Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
Both Scholarly and Popular Articles are found in Publications known as Periodicals
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4. Scholarly Articles
Scholarly articles are found in Journals; sometimes referred to
as Academic articles or Peer-Reviewed articles. They are written
by experts and evaluated by other experts before they are
published through a process called peer-review. Examples are:
Journal of Folklore Research and The Yale Journal of Criticism

5. Popular Articles
Popular articles are found in Magazines. They are used to inform and
entertain the general public. Examples are: Time, Essence and Ebony

6. Review
Scholarly
Article
Academic
Article
Peer-Review
Article
THREE TERMS = SAME

7. Start your Investigation/Search
Choose an Topic:
The Decline of African American Marriages
Ask a Question to narrow or focus your topic.
Why has the traditional marriage between African Americans declined?
Keywords: African American Marriage, Decline

8. Research Can Be Targeted By:
1. Age
2. Gender
3. Race
4. Women
5. Children
6. Elderly

9. AND, NOT, OR
Three Boolean operators can create a very broad or
very narrow search.
And takes precedence over Or
Results contain all of the search terms
Not
Results do not contain any of the terms
Or
Results contain at least one of the terms

10. Limiters
In some Databases, you can use search limiters to
find scholarly journals
Others, such as Opposing Viewpoints will group
results into categories by article type, including
academic journals. Databases such as JSTOR and
Medline only have scholarly articles.
Limiter
Category

11. More on Limiters
Use “quotation marks” to ensure your keywords appear in the order you specified
“African American” and Marriage
Use parentheses to show that you can control your search query
African American Marriage or (Blacks)
African American Marriage and (Blacks and relationships)
Operators, And and Not take priority over terms with Or.
Terms in parentheses are executed first

12. Internet vs Library’s Database
Internet (Google)
Quick but not relevant
Anyone can publish
Questionable authority
May take a long time to get quality information
Less reliable
Databases
Less results but relevant
Specialize in scholarly sources
Quality Information
Easy to search
Identifiable authority

13. EVALUATING THE INTERNET
APPLY THE CRAAP TEST
CRAAP questions to consider:
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14. Find a Scholarly Article in an EsbcoHost Database
There are four steps:
1. Conduct your search.
2. In your results list, click on the title of the article you wish to
view.
3. Click on source. The source is name of the journal.
4. Look for peer-reviewed and it should say yes. If it does not say
yes, it is not scholarly.

15. Steps 1-3Step 1-conduct search
Step 2-click the title of the article
Step 3- click journal title

16. Final Step 4
Peer-review/ yes or no

17. Organizing and Writing the Literature Review
Literature Review Tutorial

18. Putting it All Together…
Use the Following Link for Assistance in Citing
APA Guide Help Page
Electronic Version

19. ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE…
SUBJECT GUIDES
AND
ONLINE TUTORIALS
Online Tutorials
Found on the Library’s website under the Research Tab