This document introduces the online research databases available through the Palomar College Library. It explains that the databases contain articles from magazines, journals, and newspapers that can be useful sources of information for class assignments or personal research. It provides instructions for accessing the databases on or off campus and navigating the database pages. It then demonstrates in detail how to use three general databases - Opposing Viewpoints, CQ Researcher, and Academic Search Premier - to search for information on a topic and access full text articles.
One of the main ideas of research is to study what others have published and form your own opinions. When you quote people -- or even when you summarize or paraphrase information found in books, articles, or Web pages -- you must acknowledge the original author.
Overview of different ways of searching the PubMed database: cross-searched with Entrez, basic search, author search, journal search, searching for special topics, single citation matching, and advanced search.
Explore Your World with EBSCO's ExploraKarenSteiger2
An instructional presentation for my LIS 702 course at Dominican University (a graduate Library and Information Science course). The assignment tasks students with creating a PowerPoint presentation instructing users to use a reference source cited in a previous assignment. I am not affiliated with EBSCO or the Schaumburg Township District Library; I assumed the role of a reference librarian at the Schaumburg Township District Library to meet the parameters of the assignment. I would be delighted if you find this guide helpful, however!
Learn how to identify what to look for when selecting resources; judge if information will be relevant for your assignments and recognise if a source is credible.
CHEUNG ORIANA CHARISSA (U091121A)
KOH CHEE XIANG JOEL (U082003H)
MUHAMAD ZULFADHLI B ZAINAL A (U080071U)
TAN JUE YING SHERILYN (U087568A)
YANG XINYI (U091652U
One of the main ideas of research is to study what others have published and form your own opinions. When you quote people -- or even when you summarize or paraphrase information found in books, articles, or Web pages -- you must acknowledge the original author.
Overview of different ways of searching the PubMed database: cross-searched with Entrez, basic search, author search, journal search, searching for special topics, single citation matching, and advanced search.
Explore Your World with EBSCO's ExploraKarenSteiger2
An instructional presentation for my LIS 702 course at Dominican University (a graduate Library and Information Science course). The assignment tasks students with creating a PowerPoint presentation instructing users to use a reference source cited in a previous assignment. I am not affiliated with EBSCO or the Schaumburg Township District Library; I assumed the role of a reference librarian at the Schaumburg Township District Library to meet the parameters of the assignment. I would be delighted if you find this guide helpful, however!
Learn how to identify what to look for when selecting resources; judge if information will be relevant for your assignments and recognise if a source is credible.
CHEUNG ORIANA CHARISSA (U091121A)
KOH CHEE XIANG JOEL (U082003H)
MUHAMAD ZULFADHLI B ZAINAL A (U080071U)
TAN JUE YING SHERILYN (U087568A)
YANG XINYI (U091652U
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Research Inventy : International Journal of Engineering and Science is published by the group of young academic and industrial researchers with 12 Issues per year. It is an online as well as print version open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject such as: civil, mechanical, chemical, electronic and computer engineering as well as production and information technology. The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published by rapid process within 20 days after acceptance and peer review process takes only 7 days. All articles published in Research Inventy will be peer-reviewed.
THE REMOVAL OF NUMERICAL DRIFT FROM SCIENTIFIC MODELSIJSEA
Computer programs often behave differently under different compilers or in different computing
environments. Relative debugging is a collection of techniques by which these differences are analysed.
Differences may arise because of different interpretations of errors in the code, because of bugs in the
compilers or because of numerical drift, and all of these were observed in the present study. Numerical
drift arises when small and acceptable differences in values computed by different systems are
integrated, so that the results drift apart. This is well understood and need not degrade the validity of the
program results. Coding errors and compiler bugs may degrade the results and should be removed. This
paper describes a technique for the comparison of two program runs which removes numerical drift and
therefore exposes coding and compiler errors. The procedure is highly automated and requires very little
intervention by the user. The technique is applied to the Weather Research and Forecasting model, the
most widely used weather and climate modelling code.
This is a lesson in Research 1- Basic Research and is good for a 1.5 hours classroom activity. It covers images that can motivate undergraduate students from class participation during the class activity.
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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? ...
A lecture on how to do a literature review. Covers what a literature is, journal hierachies, H index, I index, types of lit review - narrative, meta and systematic, search startegies, forest, filtering literature, using databases to search and making a search string
2. This unit is designed to:
• Introduce you to the diverse array of research
databases available at Palomar College Library.
• Understand how the databases are organized
• Choose a database appropriate for your personal
research needs
• Help you get acquainted with three of the general
use databases
Ready, set, go!
3. Whether you are doing research for a class
assignment or personal knowledge, articles from
magazines, journals and newspapers can be
valuable sources of information. To find these
articles in the Palomar College Library, start at the
library’s home page:
http://www.palomar.edu/library
Click on either of these links: Databases/Articles
or Articles . From off campus, you can log onto all
the databases listed in this guide using your
student ID number and eServices password.
4.
5. Either link takes you to the Online Research Databases.
They are arranged by type of resource (General,
Reference, News) and by area of study (Science &
Technology, Behavioural Science, etc).
Each one has a link to see its description and open the
databases.
6. When you start your research – think first!
• Where will you find information on your topic?
• Will there be definitions and background
information in reference sources like
encyclopedias and dictionaries?
• Have newspapers published information on this
topic?
• Will it come from a specialized area of study
like the behavioral sciences - psychology or
sociology, for instance? From the field of
science? Somewhere else?
• Is this a topic that’s more general in nature?
8. Opposing Viewpoints is a good resource for controversial
issues. It contains pro and con essays on a variety of “hot
topics” like gun control, abortion, same-sex marriage and
many others.
9. There are two ways to search Opposing
Viewpoints. The first is a “keyword search.” As
shown below, just type your topic into the search
box and then click on Search.
10. The results will be categorized into groups:
•Viewpoints
•News
•Academic Journals
•Reference
•Magazines
•Websites
To expand a section, click on View All. To read
a particular article, click on the title underlined
in blue.
11. If you haven’t chosen a topic yet, browse for ideas
through topics that have been widely covered. To
do this, click on Browse Issues.
From the drop-down menu,
choose a general category
or View All.
The topics that display
will range alphabetically
from Abortion to Zero
Tolerance Policies.
12. Next, let’s look at CQ Researcher
Every week, CQ Researcher publishes a lengthy
report on a topic of contemporary interest.
14. Your “search results” will include any reports
specifically about your topic.
Click on the blue report title to read its contents.
15. Reports are organized into segments:
• Introduction
• Overview
• Background
• Etc.
• Etc.
• Etc.
Read the entire
report, or go
directly to a
segment.
16. Next (and last in this lesson):
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is a good place to start no
matter what your subject is. It is an EBSCO database.
The Palomar College Library subscribes to many
EBSCO databases. They all work the same.
17. Like Opposing Viewpoints and CQ Researcher, start by
typing your topic into the box. You may also wish to focus
your search by selecting options from the list under “Limit
your results.”
18. • Check the Full Text box to insure that each of
your search results will be linked to the whole
article (not just some basic information about the
article).
• Check the Scholarly Journal box if your professor
requires you to use “scholarly sources.”
• Type the name of a publication to find only
articles published that particular one.
• Limit by date if you are required to find material
within a certain time range.
19. The results are a list of articles published on your topic.
Click the blue title of the article for a more detailed record.
20. Read the Abstract for a quick summary of the article. Click
the Full Text link to read the whole article.
21. As you begin to explore these three databases and
others, you will discover features that allow you to:
• Refine and focus your search
• Organize your results
• Print and email your results
• Create citations for the sources you decide to use.
The more you use the databases, the
more skillful you’ll become!
22. RECAP
Use the online research databases to find articles in:
•Magazines
•Newspapers
•Academic (scholarly) journals
Practice using these general-use databases:
•Opposing Viewpoints
•CQ Researcher
•Academic Search Premier
NOW YOU DO IT! Please proceed to Test
#2.