Sosc 4501

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Sosc 4501

• Research Methods

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Overview

• Scholarly articles what are they?
• Research Process how do I use the library?
• Website you changed EVERYTHING!

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Popular vs. Scholarly
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To Sum it Up

• Magazines

• Journals

• Popular Information
• Audience
• General public
• Casual reader
• Purpose
• Hobby
• Pleasure
• Curiosity

• Scholarly Information
• Audience
• Researcher
• Professional who needs to stay up to date
• Purpose
• Goal Driven
• Research paper
• Certification, Tenure
• Job requirement

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Research Process before you use the library

• Choose a topic
• Brainstorm ideas
• Too narrow Cant find enough information
• Too broad Too much information
• Develop a thesis Statement
• Purpose of your paper
• Identify keywords by making statement a question

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Research Process when you use the library

• Use keywords to create search strategy
• Boolean Operators
• AND (combine)
• OR (expand)
• NOT (exclude)
• Use keyword worksheet
• Use CSU Catalog for books
• Use GALILEO or CSU Databases for articles

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Website changes
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Ask a librarian page
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Research Tools
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Website dropdowns
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So How do you find Articles?

• You search in a database.
• A database is an index to multiple journals that
  allow you to search at the article level.

• You search databases by
• Keywords with Boolean and truncation
• Subject terms from thesaurus

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Lets see it in action

• http//adminservices.clayton.edu/library/