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welcomed tutorial academics that you complete
academic search complete is an all-purpose interdisciplinary database
this is a dead at eighty should use if you're looking for a scholarly
peer-reviewed articles
Start at the library's website Udayton.edu/libraries and then click
on the articles tab.
Any search terms that you enter here on the article tab will be used to
open up and search academic search complete
To use academic search complete I am going to use keywords to search for relevant
articles about a topic.
let's say the assignment is an annotated bibliography using five scholarly
articles and the topic is tattoos and college students.
let's just start with the word
tattoos and see what our results look like.
If you are off campus, you may be prompted to log in using your username and password.
We have over four thousand results, so let's use these limiters to narrow our
research results.
Since we are particularly looking at tattoos in college students,
we can enter and another keyword
college students.
Connecting tattoos and college students with the word 'and' will give us articles
on both topics.
we can limit our results further remember I needed scholarly peer-reviewed journal
articles so i can refine my results for clicking this button.
and then I can click update.
I can also moved the date bar up a bit so i can ensure that i'm looking at recent
research
I'm now only looking at twenty nine results if i wanted to increase my
results i could use the word 'or' up here.
o'r' is a great way
to use synonoms
I like to say
'or' gives you more.
notice that the listings in our search results give lots of information.
what journal its from
and the date it was published, who the authors are
these may be automatic clues as to whether this article is applicable to your
research or not.
When you click on a title, you can read the abstract, which is a summary of the
article and its research findings.
If you'd like to see the full text of the article, click on the pdf
full-text link on the left hand side.
Over on the right hand side as well you'll find ways to keep track of
articles that you're looking at.
You can email these articles to yourself
or you can also save the article or print article.
overhear there is this little yellow stickynote.
and this is where you can find
the citations for this particular article.
Before using them in your bibliography you will turn in to professor be sure to
check these against an additional source.
Sometimes the punctuation is wrong,
or it's missing element entirely, but these are least get you started.
If we go back to search results page, we may find some articles that do not have
a pdf.
If this happens, you can click on the yellow find it button
and see if the article is available electronically
in this case it is.
Sometimes it takes a few extra clicks in order to see the full text.
If you need assistance at any stage of the research process, be sure to ask a
librarian. All the ways you can get help from librarians are on the get help section
on our website.
udayton.edu/libraries