Hi, it's Amy Bush again from Yuba College Library.
Today I'm going to just start from the library's homepage and
remember you can get here by just Googling Yuba College
Library and it should be one of the very first that populate at
the top of the list.
So from the library's homepage today I'm going to show you how
to find scholarly research articles.
So I'm going to take you directly into the online
databases.
And a great one for everybody to become familiar with are the
EBSCO databases.
So click into EBSCO All Databases and you'll notice
there are actually tons of different databases on the EBSCO
platform.
I'm going to show you how to search all of them at once by
clicking Search All databases and ebooks.
So let's say you are looking for scholarly articles and you're
looking for genotypes and phenotypes.
You can start typing them into the search bar here and and
notice you'll see recommendations populate under
the search bar.
This is called a controlled vocabulary and if you see your
topic be sure to go ahead and click it and use it.
So this is 100% what I'm looking for.
So I'm going to click it and it will automatically look for it.
The advantage of using a controlled vocabulary is that
those are the terms that the librarians who put this database
together are using.
So if you see it there, make sure to go ahead and click it.
Now notice there are over 35,000 results.
That's far too many to search through, but you can come to the
left of the results and refine your filters to narrow that list
of results.
So the first thing that I'm going to do, if I'm looking for
scholarly articles under source type, I'm going to click
academic journals.
OK, that's great.
It's gotten rid of some.
The other thing I want to do is point out this limit to peer
reviewed.
If you click peer reviewed, it's only going to look for peer
reviewed journal articles and what that means.
Those are considered the Gold Star of scholarly academic
journal articles because they go through a more rigorous review
process to even get published.
So if you ever run across an assignment that says you need a
peer review journal article, that's what it's talking about.
It's just harder to get those published and like I said,
considered the Gold Star for scholarly and academic articles.
You can also change the publication date, so if you're
only interested in more recent journal articles, let's do 2019
to 2024.
When you do that though, once you've put your dates in, you
need to click enter on your keyboard for that to actually
enact that limiter.
You can also go down to subject headings.
So currently we have looked up genotype and phenotype as
keywords, which means they can be found anywhere in a record.
But if I click if I make them exact subjects, it means those
are going to be primary subjects for the articles found.
So let's do that.
You can click Show more under exact subjects and look there
are tons of different subjects you can go through.
Choose whatever best fits your needs.
For demonstration purposes today, I'm just going to click
phenotypes.
Now notice I can also choose genotypes, but you have to do
them separately.
You cannot do them together, because if you do them at the
same time, then both of them might not be in every single
article.
So we'll do phenotypes first, update it.
Now we have to go back to our exact subjects.
I can choose show more, I can just choose genotypes.
And now if you look at the very top, if you look at the
subjects, notice both genotypes and phenotypes are present in
every record.
So that's great.
Let's say you want to even further narrow it because 524 is
still probably too much to go through.
You can go back down to the subjects and take a look and
say, oh, well, you know what I'm interested in?
I don't know.
Let's just say genes and you update it.
Now you're down to those 29 results that have all three of
those keywords in each one of those articles.
Now, at any time you don't like a filter or a direction it took
you and you want to go back, you can do that at the very top of
the list of filters.
There are XS next to all of your filters filters that you've
placed.
So let's say you want to get rid of genes.
You just click that X and it'll take you right back to the
results before you enabled that filter.
To access the article, you just click the title.
So I'm going to click the title of this article here.
Be sure to read the abstract.
Make sure it really does fit your needs before you choose it.
Also, you can look at author affiliations to know who each of
the authors are to find out if they really are credible
sources.
And then to save this article, you can look to the right of
this record and click e-mail.
You can put your e-mail address in here and you can also choose
a citation.
So if you're using, say APA format, you can click APA after
you've put your e-mail address in.
Then you can click Send and it'll send you a link back to
this record and it will also send you a generated citation
for this particular record.
Remember we have are citation format guides linked off of the
home page so you can double check them to make sure that
they are correct, but this really does save you a lot of
work when it comes to citing your sources.
Another thing I want to point out is this permalink.
A permalink is a consistent URL back to this record, so if
you're ever looking for a link to the record, make sure you use
the permalink and not the link at the top of the page.
The link at the top of the page will not bring you back to this
record, so be sure if you're looking for those links that you
use that permalink.
If you are using permalinks and you don't want to e-mail it to
yourself, you can also click the site tool, Scroll down to your
citation format and here is your generated citation for this
particular record.
Now to access the full text, you'll do that to the very left
of the title.
You can click into that to access the full text of your
article.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact a
librarian or make an appointment with a librarian.
We'll sit down one-on-one with you to help you with any of your
research needs.
Thanks a lot.
Bye, bye.