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?

Step by Step to locating Peer Reviewed Academic Journals

Your best choice for scholarly peer reviewed journals would be Academic OneFile or Academic Search Premier.

http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB/COU/browse/facets/subject/219Click this link to go straight to the Leatherby Library Databases

You have your choice Academic Onefile or Academic Search Premier...

Academic OneFile

- click on connect put in your password
- Above the search bar on the top right is a magnifying glass that list advanced search click that 

-Below the section that has More options check the boxes for
Full text documents and Peer Reviewed Journals

Academic Search Premier

- C lick on connect put in your password- Check the boxes below the section bottom left to limit your results to:

- Full text
- Scholarly Peer Reviewed Journals

- I would Also change the publication date range based on your topic 2000-2016 should work but this can change depending on your topic, you may want a shorter time frame.

- Change the language to English (this cuts down on weeding through different languages later

without putting in a topic my search results for full text scholarly journals written in English between 2000-2016 starts at a little over 4.7 million. Narrowing it down to social work I now have about 20,000. 




I narrowed it down even farther by selecting the United States check box below the section for Geography. You dont have to, just recognize most other countries governmental laws might not apply to your article on for example social work...

Good luck, please email me if you have any further questions on scholarly peer reviewed journals and this weeks work..

Mr Mac