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we also have "skepticism and perceptual faith," and we'll click on that abstract.
we can see that we have Henry David Thoreau, and it talks about
his attitude toward perception and the questions he was trying to address, and the philosophy he was attempting to answer.
so that might work for the subject of transcendentalism too, so that is a possible article that we could use.
We'll also take a look at this article as well.
and we find that we have Thoreau, transcendentalist engagement. And in the subject it mentions transcendentalism there, so we have a pretty good
article with both concepts in there.
so looking at the articles and sources that we have,
with the 12 articles that have come about, we
probably have between 6 to 10 good sources, so we have probably achieved our goal.
and they seem to be pretty large articles,
so we have some good sources for our research paper.
Now if we wish to save these articles and continue searching,
what we're going to need to do,
is go back
if we want to save a certain article, we just check the white box to the left.
I'll just randomly select articles.
and if we go back up to the top of the screen,
and we look in the "my research" tab,
we can see that the my research folder has saved the articles that we have selected.
I recommend that users do not close their browser window,
because if you do, you'll lose the articles that you selected.
you can also take these articles that you have selected, and you can create a bibliography, you can email your documents,
you can export your citations into Endnote, Procite, Refworks, or Reference manager, if you are familiar with those applications.
or you can create a webpage with links to your articles, searches, and publications.
if we go back
we can also see that we can email the articles to ourselves,
we can email the full -text, and we just simply enter our email address, name, subject, and message, so we know what we are emailing to ourselves.
and we can also have citations for the articles that we have selected.
we can choose which type of citation format: Proquest standard, AMA, APA, Chicago, MLA, or Vancouver.
so that is handy if you need to produce citations for a research paper.
you can simply have Proquest do that for you.
but I recommend that if you do choose this feature, you look over the citations when they're finished, to make sure everything looks good.
and that Proquest hasn't entered any unusual information into your citations.
and you can also export your documents to Refworks, Procite, Endnote, or Reference Manager, once again, if you are familiar with those applications.
or you can create a setup alert, and what that will do,
it will take the search you selected earlier, and each time an article is added that matches your search, Proquest can email you that information.
stating that the article has been added, or will email you the article itself.
and you can set that up to send an alert daily, weekly, monthly,
if you are conducting ongoing research, this can be helpful
because Proquest will continuously send you more articles as they are added, so you can keep up with that latest research that has been published.
and you can have it stop after anywhere from two weeks to a year, depending on how long you are doing research for.
all you do is just add your email address, a subject, and a message.
an RSS feed can also be set up as well, to keep a record of newly updated articles that match your search.
if you're familiar with how to use RSS, that can be to your advantage as well.
Now, let's try one more search, looking for articles/sources pertaining to the field of biological science.
Say that you are taking a capstone course for a biomedical science major,
and you would like to write a research paper on the side- effects of creatine use in humans.
So let's go back up to the topics tab
and we'll type in creatine so see if it's a controlled term, or if it's listed in the controlled vocabulary.
and we find that creatine is not listed under the controlled vocabulary
it's actually listed under dietary supplements.
but this is far too broad, because we want to focus specifically on creatine.
so what we'll do, is go back to the advanced search,
and we'll clear out the previous search by clicking on the clear button.
and I'll type in creatine
and I'll look for that under citations and abstract
and I'll type in dietary supplements
and I'll look for that in the citation and document text
the reason that I included both is that creatine can be produced by the body,
or it can be taken in supplement form.
By including dietary supplements, that will exclude any studies that have been conducted about creatine being produced in the body
so hopefully we'll get right to the heart of the supplements or articles about creatine that has been ingested.
and we'll use the and Boolean for searching for dietary supplements.
Next, we'll go back up to the topics tab
and we'll search for side-effects, to see if that is a controlled term
and we find that side-effects is a controlled term
so we'll go back to the advanced search
and we'll clear out the previous search once again
I'll type out creatine, and search under citation and abstract.
we'll have the and Boolean, and we'll type out dietary supplements
and search for that in the citation and document text.
then we'll have side effects
and we'll search for that under the citation and document text.
and select the and Boolean for that as well.
and to eliminate animals from the search, to get human subjects,
we'll use the and not Boolean, type out animals, and look under citation and abstract.
and the reason why I selected animals, instead of something pertaining to humans, is that, when scientists conduct experiments on humans,
they don't always specifically say humans; they might say teens or adolescents, or males, or females, or give a specific age range,
but when they test on animals, they usually note that it was an animal that was tested on.
so hopefully, if we exclude animals from our search, we will get human subjects, as the primary sources for our search results.
Now, let's try our search
We find that we have 60 documents found
but with scientific research, it is important to select relevant sources
and for scientific research, we will be looking at primarily scholarly journals, because they
provide empirical evidence for scientific research that has been conducted.
so we'll click on the scholarly journals tab
Now we find that we have 23 documents, which is a much more manageable selection.
Now we can scroll and look for relevancy.
We can "Creatine supplementation, forms functions and effects."
this article suggests things about harmful side-effects to the user.
so that would be a good article.
we have "creatine users among young athletes"