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.

Create your new blogspot blog!

Creating your new Research blog!

How to Create a Blog

Go to Mr Mac’s LBSU 302 Research blog or blogger.com.
Sign in using your gmail account. If you do not already have a Google account sign up for one.

For our first week we are setting up our research blogs on the website blogger.com

This site will be used for our reflection posts after you finish your weekly assignments. For week one please send me your new URL through email which should look like

http://libgentech.blogspot.com/

When setting up your blog you have the option to choose your blog name before the title blogspot.com

You will add your title and add the URL name for your new blog.

To make sure you are signed into your site confirm that your email account is listed in the top right of the screen. From here you can see the link for new post or on your blog desktop click the orange pencil compose button to add a new post and complete this weeks first assignment.

You will receive credit 60 points this week
30 points for your website

30 points for your first post

Good luck, Mr Mac.

after you send me your blog links by email I will add them to the list here on the blog..

LBSU 302: Information Fluency & Academic Integrity - Summer 2016

Welcome new students to my research blog and the class LBSU 302: Information Fluency and Academic Integrity.

My name is John Macomber and I am your instructor this semester. I have taught this course for over two years online and in hybrid format and every semester, with your help, I have been able to improve the courseroom. Beyond Blackboard and the assignment PDFs, please use this site as a frame of reference or how to guide to complete your work. If anything seems unclear please notify me and we can discuss it as a class in many cases it is very possible that others in the class may have the same question.

Blog replies

This blog is also a starting point to direct you to your peers blogs which will be necessary in upcoming assignments when you respond to your classmates posts. I recommend that each week that replies are required, you respond to someone you have not responded to before. This will ensure our class conversation circulates throughout our digital classroom.

There will be two courses using this blog the online, and the Hybrid course, make sure you are corresponding with the right course when you have to send your blog replies in week 2. :)

Thank you and good luck in your future research

John Macomber
jmacombe@brandman.edu

To my future researchers....

I am very proud of each and everyone of the students this semester who put their best foot forward and really cracked down on the work in this class. I was pleased to see the turnout of high scores for the 35 of you in this course. It shows not only your determination to succeed, but the ability to research like a professional in academia and make use of the tools, techniques, and abilities you have learned in just eight short weeks.

I wish you all well in your academic and professional future. Thank you from Mr. Mac and Brandman University!!!

LBSU 302: Week 8 - It's our last week!!!

Week 8 - It's our last week!!!

For this last week, which  is week 8, you will put all of your work together in a 2-3 page literature review. This work will analyze the sources you have selected to best represent your research question. Please do not just recycle your old papers. While it is ok to specifically select citations and their corresponding passages, I would prefer you select new material more closely aligned with your new research abilities.  
You are able to re-use up to four of your previous citations, but I would encourage new information and paragraphs not just reusing your all your old assignments.

Not a research paper. Focus on the main articles in your field and how they assist your work.  2-3 page literature review, double spaced.

Short for a reason focused on what has been done in the field, who is the top players are and what still needs to be done. (Badke, 2015).

What is the best work for the topic or issue?

The condensed style should help you to focus answer your question and prove to me as the instructor reader how the articles assisted to answer your final paper.

6 sources required three of which are journals. You can use up to four of your previous articles.

Cover page  - Running head: AMERICAS WAR ON TERROR     

 _________________________________________________                         

In the introduction you should:

a. define or identify the general topic, issue or area of concern

b. point out overall trends in what has already been published

c. establish your point of view for reviewing the literature [Include your research question!]

d. indicate the organization of the review

____________________________________________________

II. Body In the body you should:

A. group research studies and other relevant literature according to a common theme [for example, you may find prevailing theories and/or practices involved with your research; you can use these as thematic sections for the body of your literature review]

B. summarize each item of the literature appropriately according to its significance

C. compare and evaluate each item of the literature

D. provide topic sentences at the beginning of paragraphs and summary sentences at the end of sections to help the reader understand what the main issues are

__________________________________________________________
III. Conclusion

In the conclusion you should:

a. summarize the literature maintaining the focus presented in the introduction

b. evaluate the current "state of the art" [or state of the topic that represents your research question] [by] pointing out gaps in the literature, inconsistencies and issues that are important for future study

c. conclude by giving some insight into the relationship between your topic and a larger area of study or area of professional practice

Hope everything is going ok with your topic, good luck,

MR MAC

LBSU 302: Please check your grades

LBSU 302,

We are fast approaching the end of class and I want to make sure you have all received credit for the work you have done. Please take a moment to check your grades for this class and see if anything is missing. I am in the middle of rechecking my email to see if any of your grades were not posted yet.

Mr Mac

Week 7 Annotated Bibliographies

We are in the second to last week of class. !! :) WEEK 7

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



Mr. Mac

LBSU 302: Week 6 :) Open Access Journals

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.

LBSU 302 - Discussion Board: What could librarians and instructors do to promote the use of library databases?

I have created a discussion forum to get some feedback from you the students. I am finding ways to promote the library databases and needed some feedback on how to accomplish this task

https://brandman.blackboard.com/webapps/discussionboard/do/forum?action=list_threads&nav=discussion_board_entry&course_id=_189717_1&conf_id=_214417_1&forum_id=_583330_1

(Freebie 3pts. No wrong answers just need some student opinions)

What could librarians and instructors do to promote the use of library databases?

Who promotes it? is it the librarians job or should faculty members be sharing this information with their students?
Would you have used these resources more had you known about the databases and scholarly journals?

I would rather you respond on blackboard rather than email as it will be easier to grade

thanks, Mr Mac

LBSU 302: Some more tools for your arsenal - Boolean Logic & Select all databases

Lets expand your search results...

Week 5 Empirical Research may be one of the harder weeks as it is trial and error sometimes to find a good article on your topic. As I mentioned before Empirical Research works as a keyword along with whatever you are searching at the time.
Other words to consider: Methodology and or Observation.

For this search I did family therapy AND Empirical Research

by linking these two words I am using Boolean logic pairing these items together
Boolean Logic http://www.lib.umd.edu/tl/guides/boolean-logic

So in a search for the paired words family therapy and Empirical Research using full text I found 44 results. Unhappy with my search results I am going to expand my search to other databases. Select the choose databases link where the arrow is pointing to in this screenshot.

From here you will be able to select all of the other databases offered by the library or be selective and choose your databases..

Choosing all of the databases my slow down your search a bit but the results should double what you had before while searching.....

so instead of 44 results our new search with all databases added garnered 181 results! 

I hope this helps your research :) good luck

Mr Mac

Week 5 Empirical Research

Week 5 focuses on Empirical Research.

™Empirical - based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic (Oxford English Dictionary, 2015)
The Scientific Method has it basis on empirical research. Making calculations based on observation experience rather than just theory. Empirical research generates knowledge derived from observation or experimentation as opposed to theory™Typically, empirical research articles are written in a standardized format that outline the research study or experiment and include the following sections:•Abstract•Introduction and Literature Review•Methods•Results•Discussion or Conclusion
•References (or literature cited)

 

For Academic Search Premier I would recommend using Emperical research as a keyword and then in the following keyword box type your subject.

Other possible searches are "empirical evidence" or even "observation"

Using Empirical evidence as a keyword search you should see Empirical research as a keyword in bold for the articles you examine. For your assignment paragraph I would like to see in your paper what material did the authors link to empirical research? what did they observe or examine?