by this is Rob Frank coming assistant professor of english at harvard
community college and i'm going to show you how to search the library online
databases
so first we go to library
that articles of databases
i recommend starting out with ebsco host its pretty
wide collection databases
sco host now at this point
if you're accessing be databases from all campus
going to ask you for your i_d_ number
sp on the back of your i_d_
underneath the bar code it's the number of that starts with two one five oh
five six
so once you've entered that and i've done it already so you can't use mine
it
so i think it's starting out with selecting all
did lot of students growing just searching academic search premier and
leaving at that
however this limits your search and you want to
couple wide search it first
what your exploring research paper topic ideas
so
the topic that we're going to work with
is the idea that
jogging is dangerous
uh... but it's actually bad for you
so jogging
and if we don't use the word and it will just kind of search the
freeze jogging dangerous which would not be good
sweet sweet jogging and dangerous
now
you're also going to want to check for taxed
this will all the return of articles that have the full text available online
that we don't have to go hunting down ob in print
now the second thing you're going to want to do is click scholarly
pure review journals
pure you journals are journals that undergo a review process when they are
selecting which articles will appear in the journal bunch of people look at the
articles and decide whether it it
fits or not
whether it's colleen
itself
i that where you know that it's more reliable handed also that what you're
more likely to find studies
so we search for jogging and dangerous
vishal critique that you'll then results so you know it looks like there are
required of results they're actually work any
judging dangers maybe try
tracker reactions on the same word
and here's what exercise recommendations effort total joint replacement of u
review with the current literature and proposal such book at
so this is not really what we're looking for
we're really pretty idea the tracking is dangerous not that it's dangerous after
getting a total joint replacement
that's
a little bit more obvious to reporting to do
so i recommend keeping notes
y o u
work artist called the research paper notes
and here we see the document title on top
the first thing we tried was jogging
there
jurors that yielded nothing
junkies
dangers and even though veggie yield something eileen
do think did we should ignore that warm and chalk that up as a loss so
try synonym brought
trolley
hazards
synagogue for
dangers hopefully that'll give us something
k
i think again that would might be a little bit too specific
in support of jogging that could be good even though that's going against what
we're arguing we're going to want to look at the counterpoint later
the other side of the argument
bom
to what i like to do
is keep track of first
the search rank
then the author's last name
we've that's
and end the title which i'd just copy
cat
we're going to get more specific and i'm staying ok what kinds of hazards maybe
go more specific and
the idea that you could go out for ronald and drop dead
so
this gives us book reviewer that's not good at your what the book reviews cas
it's just a review of a book
without the book available
here was the one that we saw
for cures a single case where a forty year old man
lose consciousness
i don't think that that's as good as say larger study that was done
as such is the one above it
where
you have a hard barge sample size large number of subjects
so you can tell whether or not to be
the research that's done is reliable and you can extrapolate what the findings
to a larger population here with a a single person that's not as convincing
so
i think they
this one could be good
so will click on that and i will take us to the citation page
where all of the information about the article is listed
the author's last name
source
the abstract which talks about the
overall
summary of the article
here it looks a little bit complicated
but it
you might get a little something that is for example that last sentence
in the abstract
is something that is understandable
and that is something that we could use though we wouldn't want to just take it
right out of the abstract
that's a different lesson though
so let's go back
and try now
stepped is dead
so i don't know that we would be keeping notes throughout
in the interest of time i i just want to walk you through this
strike instead
heart attack
more specific
however
the problem with doing this
is that
you're searching for
for almost layman's terms u
dot did not yield any results
let's try instead
cardiac
rest
and when you search for something if you want a balanced find it would be
the exact phrase you should put it in quotes that didn't help either
arms
speed try
something a little bit broader
injury
now
me dislocations
some foot problems
stock
stretching an injury prevention of obscure relationship
that could be good because that's another
counter-argument however
you could turn on that and say well of stretching can prevent injury
that implies that it's dangerous
to one without stretching
alone
this is another
group one and that we have
signal so use
former the
left here
they have a the sores
where they give suggestions of other things to search for cure another thing
that we haven't even looked at at our traffic accidents
you could talk about how joggers are injured
by cars
catch so in jogging in injury
and complete right jarring dreams diverse discipline
and again you can get more specific and play around with it
uh... i
he could notice at that the skit sent
and if you have any questions please feel free to email me
by website is available at rob john frank dot com