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You need to find information for a paper you're probably used to using Google in
searching the web.
Google provides a search called Google Scholar that searches scholarly sources,
publisher websites, universities, etc.
Let's use this to find information on food scarcity. We're going to search the
phrases "food scarcity" and its synonym "food insecurity."
This search find 17,400 sites that match our search terms.
Looking at the right side of the screen shows me that I can get the full text of
this item through Campbell University. You can get these results by choosing a
setting in the options box.
Come to the research assistance desk to learn how to do this.
When you click on the link it takes you to the article.
Google Scholar is easy to search- why do we need to use the OneSearch?
Google Scholar doesn't search the books in the library's collection. The OneSearch
searches both articles and books in our collection. Google Scholar's results may
not be peer-reviewed. The OneSearch allows you to set limits to guarantee that the
articles have come through a peer review process. With Google Scholar the articles
that you find you may have to pay the use. With OneSearch all the articles have
already been paid for.
If we don't have access to an article we can get it for you through
Interlibrary loan. For example, this article available through Google Scholar
requires us to pay 25 dollars before we can look at it.
The OneSearch is the default search at the library homepage www.lib.campbell.edu
www.lib.campbell.edu
Let's look for articles about homelessness and children.
The astericks symbol is a truncation symbol.
It tells the OneSearch to search for the base word and any ending such as "ing,"
"es," "ed," "ness," and others.
The results contain both articles and books. We can search a particular type of
item by selecting it in the "content types" section.
To find books or e-books, we go to the content type section and select "book/
e-book" from the options.
By selecting "book/e-book" we have a list of books that matched our search.
Some of these results are citations for books that we don't have access to
at Campbell.
By selecting "main collection" and "online collection" under Library Locations we
only get the books we own or have access to.
We can also go to the Subject Terms section and limit our results only items that
have certain subject headings. Since we want to only find books about homeless
children in the United States, we can select the subject heading "United States."
For example, let's look at the book "What About America's Homeless Children." The One
Search can tell us the call number, but it can't tell us if the book is checked out.
To find this out we need to click on the "check availability" link.
This takes us to the CamelCat entry for this book. Here we can see if the book is
available,
what the call number is, and where it is located.
If we look at the book "Children of the Streets of the Americas: Homelessness,
Education, and Globalization in the United States, Brazil and Cuba" we can see that this
is an e-book. If we click on the "Full Text Online" link,
it takes us to the electronic version of the book.
The OneSearch can also be used to find articles on this topic. The OneSearch
searches over 150 subscription databases for our search terms
and is very useful for finding articles if you are unsure which database to use.
Databases contain article citations.
Different databases have the citations for different articles from various
types of journals.
To find articles, look under the "Content Type" section and select the "Journal
Article" box. Under the "refine your search" section you want to select the box next to
"Limit to articles from scholarly publications including peer review."
This gives us a list of articles that match our search terms. We can go to the
"Subject Terms" section on the left hand side of the screen and add subject headings
to get better results. To get a complete list of subject headings, click on the
"More" box.
The default list of subject terms shows us the subject headings by how
frequently they were used. More popular subject terms are at the top of the list.
If you click the "A to Z" link,
you get a listing of the subject terms in alphabetical order. Let's select "United
States" from the list and click continue.
This gets us a list of articles that match our search terms and have a subject
heading of "United States." We can set a limit to only poll articles published
between 2009 and 2013.
We've gone from 17,908 articles
to 189.
If we click on an article title such as "Reducing Child Poverty by Promoting
Child Well-Being: Identifying Best Practices in a Time of Great Need" we go to the
database that provided the article.
In this case the database assigns direct. We can get to the full text by clicking
on the PDF link at the top of the page
We could have also chosen the article "A Prospective Study of Childhood and
Adolescent Antecedents Homelessness among Community Population of
African Americans.
This article is provided by a different database, but we can still get to it by
clicking where it says download PDF