Week 7 Annotated Bibliographies

To make sure this week’s assignment is in the correct formatting, review the APA Annotated Bibliography sample provided by OWL Purdue. 
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/03/

You should have a total of 6 total sources for your Annotated Bibliography, 3 of the 6 need to be journals. You can use up to 4 sources from previous assignments. 

Why only 4 previous assignments? With all that you have learned throughout this class you may have found new articles that better reflect your new research abilities or new materials that are more closely related to your topic. You should expand on your previous weeks and find two new articles or books more closely related with the research question. 

REMINDER: NO RESEARCH NOTES THIS WEEK! Your research notes should be written into the second half of your paragraph or break into a second paragraph. The start of each paragraph should be an overview of the document and why it was selected and the second paragraph your CRAAP research notes

Also in the week 7 for Blackboard I have posted the Powerpoint that the Hybrid class uses during lecture. Their may be some notes that are valuable to you for this week to help you better understand the assignment.

Mr. Mac

The Myth that is Google Scholar

The Myth that is Google Scholar

My hope by now is that many have you have seen the folly / myth that is Google Scholar. As a class using a University database we are privileged to have such extensive, free to use databases at our disposal but the claim that a free to use database of full access articles is just around the corner can be tempting. What many of you have noticed when getting fed up with certain EBSCO search results and relying on the fail safe that is Google Scholar you find Pay Per View results. This is because many of the most relevant results are actually paying Google in some cases for priviledge of position in search results.

If you step outside the realm that is our university library and into the public use, you would be better off using Google Advanced search by .edu domain than trying Google Scholar.

The only issue in our case as many are looking for their field attached to careers is in some cases you may find some of these results are not articles but rather how to obtain your degree and the .edu sites become different universities trying to show you BA's as a social Worker or BA's in Psychology.

Yes with Google Scholar the term free to use sounds great we find many free abstracts but will find many results with Full Text with the low low price of 39.99 for the day L

Why do this when you have a University library databases free and at your disposal considering you did in fact pay for them being a Brandman Student?

Hopefully like Directory of Open Access Journals which was found this week you will find new actual scholarly journals and will venture outside of the bubble that is Google, Google Scholar and Wikipedia…

Mr Mac

Week 6 - Open Access Journals

I want to make sure all of the class is on the same page for week 6. For this week you will NOT use Leatherby Libraries instead you will choose one of these open Access databases listed here and find an article.

Since these databases are free for all their usability is somewhat lacking when compared with the EBSCO databases from Leatherby Libraries.

In Directory of Open Access Journals for example

It is sometimes hard to navigate through the wide range of full text scholarly journals from many different countries. Even with the language option chosen many different articles are from other countries and it is sometimes difficult to navigate the wide array of articles. 

Here is a listing of the top Open Access Journals that you can use for this week 6.

Important to note that some articles may be abstracts and not the full and complete text. A citation or article may lead outside the database to another source that requires purchase. Email me if you have problems navigating to find an article related to your topic.

Also you may have a broad range of articles at your disposal numbering in the thousands or very few that are not relevant to your topic. These databases are not as fluid as Leatherby Libraries and the databases like Academic Search Premier.

Make sure you choose a database closer to your topic. For week 6 both DOAJ -Directory of Open Access Journals & OAJSE - Open Access Search Engine, are your best bet to find articles across multiple subjects.

OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES 

Open Access: This definition means researchers/students have means free, open, unrestricted access, to peer-reviewed and scholarly journals.

Core
CORE (COnnecting REpositories) aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. As of today, CORE gives you access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories.



(DOAJ) - Directory of Open Access Journals 
Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.

F1000Research
Open access journal in biology and medicine.

OAJSE
Open Access Journals Search Engine.



PubMed
PubMed is the publicly accessible version of MEDLINE developed by the National Library of Medicine. It contains citations from over 3,900 international biomedical journals. Journal coverage is provided from 1966 through the present. In most cases, an abstract is included with the citation.