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