Library Database > Google

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When I decided to research my topic, plagiarism, and it’s effects, it came as no surprise to me that what I would find would be two entirely different things. I decided to use my favorite internet search engine, Google, and the scholarly website provided by Professor Leonard, EBSCOhost. I searched on Google first and it came as expectedly, I got results about the definition of ‘plagiarism’. When I searched plagiarism and its effects, I was able to see a bit more. I then used the scholarly search and actually found articles that were relevant to my topic. I was able to find scholarly articles about plagiarism and the effects that correlate to it. However, Google was able to show me some scholarly articles but it had only shown me 6 scholarly articles. When I did the same search, plagiarism and its effects, on EBSCO, there were much more. This hadn’t been a surprising ‘adventure’ mainly because I’ve already tried this in class and found that the leading scholarly search provided me with actually evidence that could be used. Further on, any future research assignments I would not only use Google but instead also use one of the scholarly search engines that the school supplies us with.

Today’s summary, and assignments and reading for next week

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Today we discussed finding articles and other content from library databases. Slides from today area available here. I distributed guidelines for the research paper outline, due Wednesday, November 6. Here are some suggested databases that may be useful as you search for articles on your research topics:

Remember that the annotated bibliography is due by noon on Friday 11/1, emailed to me as an attachment. I’ll be away at a conference next week, but my colleagues Prof. Beilin and Prof. Smale (Monday and Wednesday, respectively) will be teaching those days. Next week we’ll discuss how and why to evaluate information. For Monday, please review the following websites on how to evaluate information:

UC Berkeley Library, Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
Cornell University Libraries, Critically analyzing information sources.

Your blogging assignment is one research journal blog post in response to the following prompt:

Do a search on your research topic in at least one internet search engine and one library database. What words or phrases did you use to search?
What are the similarities and differences between the results of your two searches?

~Prof. Leonard

Today’s summary, and assignments for Wednesday 10/30

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Today we discussed searching (and finding!) in library catalogs. We discussed the CUNY library catalog, the Library of Congress Classification Outline, WorldCat, and reviewed LibX, a browser add-on to make your searching more efficient.

On Wednesday, we’ll discuss searching in library databases. Please read Badke, chapter 5 (pp. 94-120). Since databases have great potential for your discover of relevant, high-quality scholarly sources, here is a quick preview:

Remember, the due date for the annotated bibliography is now Friday, November 1. Please email your assignment to me as an attachment by noon that day

Where to go?

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Using google, bing, or similar search engines, the information sources are there but so is useless pages of information. Using http://eric.ed.gov/, and google scholar, made searching for information much easier. It was more relevant to my topic also somewhat helped me narrow down my research topic, thou i still need to tweak the topic. Also using easybib made it easier for me to save some the sources instead of trying to recall what website the artlice was on, and spend countless of hours trying to find the website. Using websites like eric.ed.gov made it easier to narrow down my sources but also made it difficult to pick and choose which articles to use, since majority of the sources seemed relevant..

THAT CPU DOESNT SPEAK ENGLSIH

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As i do research i find my self repeatdly asking my self is this  relevent information for the paper and if so how and where can i get my point across. its so much information out there you can go on for days with things to say but making a valid point has dawned on me to be number one. i have a stradegy of just going to random pages and seeing what i find its timley but you find information that is not easily located neither is it easy on the eye .what are some tips that are making it easier? on you guys help would be great

And the search continues…

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Thanks to Badke, my online search for information has improved from I search for information in my earlier research papers that i have dealt with. But now the biggest obstacle for me is finding scholarly sources since this is my first time ever trying to find one. Also this is my first attempt to creating a annotated bibliography. I was not here last class but I am trying my best on where to find said scholarly sources. I Know i can find some through a website called JSTOR but I am not familiar with this website and i certainly dont want to subscribe to anything.

Google Scholar

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I used Google scholar search to find this “Conceptions in the Code: What ‘the Copyright Wars’ Tell Us About Creativity, Social Change and Normative Conflicts in the Digital Society“ by Stefan Larsson.  However this scholarly journal didn’t pop up at first by term copyrights creativity. I had to change search setting to year 2012 to 2013. Most scholarly articles found by Google scholar were any title that included my search term. And some journals had my search term, but were misleading. And that was hard to decide until you skim through it. I had same problems you would get from regular internet search, however you can pretty much know that any article shown by Google scholar search is trust worthy.

Search and you shall find! 10/28

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Although you can find a lot more pertinent information when using search options catered to scholarly sources, it can sometimes be a little harder. One of the resources that I found very useful was Academic Search Complete. using this database there are various search options and come in handy. There are different search modes and expanders such as finding phrases, all search terms etc. There are also options to search for various document and publication types. One of the best things you can do after you find a long article is to scan through the article. Another option is to do a Find within the documents looking for keywords and reading around them.

Scholarly reasearch

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Though I do appreciate the simplicity of using Google, it is difficult to find something that is relevant to my research topic which is why I am glad Professor Leonard introduced us to Google Scholar. That is one application that helps me narrow down articles that are actually relevant and useful towards my research paper. Trying to just search through Google with the word ‘plagiarism’ does not actually find anything that I can write 5-8 pages worth of information regarding it but it just defines the word plagiarism. Just using Google was not able to provide me with any scholarly articles that I could use for my research paper. But using Google Scholar helped me find relevant information in milliseconds. After reading, ‘Apple’s’ blog post, I was tempted to try out ERIC and to my surprise I found it pretty good but I actually prefer Google Scholar because of its simplicity.

New due date for the Annotated Bibliography

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You all probably saw my earlier email message, but I wanted to make sure you all know this: I decided to change the due date for the annotated bibliography from Wednesday 10/30 to Friday 11/1 by noon, sent to me as an email attachment. You’ll need Wednesday’s discussion and activity on searching library databases to complete the assignment.

Following up on our discussion of advanced internet searching last week, I located this blog post on clever Google search tricks. Useful stuff!

~Prof. L