Table of Contents • Introduction • Off Campus Access to Library Databases & Introduction to Basics • Finding Journal Articles with Academic Search Premier • Finding Journal Articles with JSTOR • Finding an article if you already have a citation (finding a known article) • Glossary (Throughout the tutorial, a single click on an underlinedblue word or phrase will take you either to the Glossary or a website).

Introduction This tutorial provides information on the online resources and services offered by the California State University Dominguez Hills University Library to students in on-campus and distance learning Humanities courses. English, History, Philosophy, Music and Art students who need journal articles should also find it useful! Return to Table of Contents

In this Tutorial you will learn to: • use some of the many resources & services provided by the California State University Dominguez Hills Library. • locate academic journal articles using major journal article databases, Academic Search Premier and JSTOR. • understand and use library terms you will encounter while using library resources.

Getting The Most Out Of This Tutorial • We recommend that you read through all the slides in this tutorial at least once before going to any of the links. • Let’s get started…

Here’s the CSUDH Home Page:

CSUDH Library Home Page • To find the CSUDH Library home page from the CSUDH home page, click on “library” in the black menu bar. • Note especially the following links on the Library home page (on next slide): • Journal Articles & Electronic Resources – access to all CSUDH journal article databases and electronic resources (in many subject areas in addition to humanities and arts) • Frequently Used Databases –fast access to Academic Search Premier and JSTOR, the two databases we visit in this tutorial! • Services for Distance Students

CSUDH Library Home Page

Off Campus Access to Journal Article Databases: • off campus use of databases and electronic resources is restricted to current CSUDH students, staff and faculty. • use yourCSUDH user name and passwordto log in to Library databases and electronic resources from off campus locations. • whenever you click on a Library database or electronic resource that is restricted, you’ll see a CSUDH authentication screen (as illustrated in slide 13). Return to Table of Contents

Off Campus Access to Journal Article Databases(cont’d.) • You will now be able to log in with the same user name and password that you use to log in to MyCSUDH and Blackboard. (before June 2009, students used 14-digit student ID numbers to log in to library patron records and electronic databases. The library no longer requires you to enter your student ID or barcode number to access its records and resources). • Your campus user name and password will allow you to: • access CSUDH online article databases and e-books • use Interlibrary Loan to request articles for which full text is not available • If you are not able to access our databases with your campus user name and password, please call the IT Help Desk at 310-243-2500 or email cdales@csudh.edu.

This is what the CSUDH Library Authentication (login) Screen looks like: Back to Presentation (Slide 11)

CSUDH Journal Articles & Electronic Resources Page (access to ALL databases to which we subscribe)

Frequently Used Databases Page (fast access to five most often used databases)

Services for Distance Learning Students Page(outlines services and links to librarian help)

A Few Facts about Journal Article Databases • Most databases require that you have a recent version (7.0 or newer) of Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to view PDF documents you will find in your search results. • Each database contains a slightly different groupof journal titles (some journals may actually be found in more than one database). • ***Although they may provide you with information about articles you would like to see, databases do not always provide the full text of a desired article!*** • Articles not available in full text in one database may be available in another database or index. Click the red and white “Find it @ CSUDH Library…” button after the article abstract (summary) to find out.

Library InterLibrary Loan Service • “Interlibrary Loan” (“ILL”) is a library service that allows you to request journal articles not available at CSUDH through our Interlibrary Loan service. • We will request journal articles you request via ILL from other libraries and email them to you as soon as we receive them (this may take a week or even longer, so do plan ahead!). • If you are able to come to the CSUDH campus in person to pick them up, you may also request books through ILL. However, if you are a distance learning student who does not come to the CSUDH campus for classes, you should request ILL service for books from CSUDH and other libraries through your local public library(for further details, please contact the Distance Learning Librarian).

If you have problems or questions, please contact the Distance Learning Librarianfor help: cdales@csudh.edu 310-243-2088 Return to Table of Contents

************** You have now learned the basics of some important CSUDH Library services! Let’s move on to learn more about using CSUDH Library online resources to get articles you need.

Finding Journal Articles via the Library Home Page • Your papers and assignments will often require you to cite 3 to 5 recent,peer reviewed, articles on your topic. • Recent usually means published within the last 5 years. • Articles published in peer reviewedjournals have undergone a formal approval process; an editor and one or more subject specialists review each article before it is accepted for publication. They ensure that the article is accurate, well researched and presented, and that it is a legitimate contribution to the body of knowledge in the field. • To find the most recent peer reviewed articles by scholars and researchers, use CSUDH library subscription databases: Academic Search Premier,Project Muse, WilsonOmniFile and more!When you need older peer-reviewed articles, JSTOR is often a good database to try.Return to Table of Contents

What isAcademic Search Premier? • Academic Search Premier is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full textdatabase published by Ebsco Publishing. It offers access to articles from over 4,500 periodicals, including more than 3,700 peer reviewed publications, as well as indexing and abstracts for over 8,200 journals. • Great place to begin a search for articles on humanities topics as it points to articles in nearly every category of academic study. • Although links to many full text articles are available, many Academic Search Premier citations include only abstracts or references.

Where is Academic Search Premier? • the easiest way to get to Academic Search Premier:- go to the CSUDH Library Home Page. - under Electronic Databases on LH side of screen, click “Frequently Used”. - click on Academic Search Premier. • you may alsoget to Academic Search Premierthrough the “A-Z List” of electronic databases: - go to the CSUDH Library Home Page. - under Electronic Databases on LH side of screen, click A-Z list.- click on Academic Search Premier in the A-Z List.

After clicking on the name of a database (such as Academic Search Premier), you will see this Authentication (login) Screen: Fill in both boxes. Type carefully! Click Submit.

Here’s the blank Academic Search Premiersearch page: Type search terms into search boxes Optional: Limit to desired dates & to peer reviewed AND connector for joining search terms

Do an actual search in Academic Search Premier: • Example: You need several recent articles from peer reviewed journals on how postmodernism has influenced the work of historians. • Note that the main concepts in the topic stated above are underlined. (Concepts are the different ideas which make up each unique search topic). You can break down most topics into two or three main concepts. • Identify the most specific concept of your topic and search that one first: * If this first search finds only a few results, browse through them to identify those relevant to your topic. * If your first search retrieves too many references, do another search and add another concept using the AND connector to decrease your results (the next three screens show this process).

Databases are not case sensitive. 4048 results! 1.Academic Search Premier: 1st search term (postmodernism) entered Results appear in reverse chronological order (newest first) “Scholarly peer reviewed” box was checked before searching.

2.Academic Search Premier: 2nd search term (historians) entered: Combining second search term with first search term and combining with AND reduced results a lot! Note Thesaurus terms (subject headings) on LH side of results! 84 results!

3. Academic Search Premier: search terms searched as Subject Terms to focus search on relevant articles: This search located only 16results, all of which have both of our search terms as their subject headings : Note these subject headings (might be useful in subsequent searches):

Academic Search Premier Search Results(3rd search): Citation and Abstract No. 5 article looks good. Click on PDF Full Text at endof this record.

Here’s what the beginning of the five page PDF Full Text article (#5 on previous slide) looks like: Click these icons to print or save (don’t use your browser’s “File” menu commands!)

Obtaining a Full Text Article that appears to be unavailable from the database… • “Find it at CSUDH” is a built-in resource to help you locate full text articles that are not contained in the database you are searching. • The button will often lead to links to the article in other databases or to other means of obtaining an individual article. • Sometimes the article you need is available in print or on microfilm at the CSUDH Library. Clicking the “Find it at CSUDH” icon will help you determine whether the Library owns what you need. Contact cdales@csudh.edu if you need an article scanned and emailed to you. • Sometimes the article you need is not owned by the CSUDH Library. You may request it through interlibrary loan or contact cdales@csudh.edu. Contact cdales@csudh.edu with questions about print or microfilm articles or articles the CSUDH Library does not seem to own.

Note red and white “Find it at CSUDH” buttons located at the end of most records. Here’s result #1 from our postmodernism and historians search.Note red and white “Find it @ CSUDH Library” button.

Below is the new small window that opens after we click the button.CSUDH actually has this article in the database Science Direct (Elsevier). Click to get it! A smaller window opens, with information about where the article may be… . Click to get the full text of the article.

What if there is no direct link in the record to the article full text? Here’s result # 4 from our second Academic Search Premier search (slide 25):

Here’s what we see this time after clicking the button: This is an article CSUDH does not own. Click to request an Interlibrary Loan OR email cdales@csudh.edu.

How can I learn more about using Academic Search Premier ? • A brief video tutorial with narration created by EBSCO, the publisher of Academic Search Premier, is available here: Academic Search Premier Advanced Search tutorial • You will need Adobe Flash to view the tutorial: Download Flash Back to Table of Contents

What is JSTOR? • JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a continuously growing archive of almost 1400 scholarly journals, many of which cover humanities topics such as Art & Art History, Classical Studies, Education, History, Language & Literature, & Music History and Philosophy. • When a journal appears in JSTOR, all articles are available in PDF full text from the first issue of the journal to the most current one (up to a three to five year "moving wall“ excludes the full text of newer issues, but newer issues are often available in other databases we carry). • Because JSTOR is a full text database, you won’t see any red and white “Find it @ CSUDH Library” buttons in JSTOR. • Unlike most databases (such as Academic Search Premier), JSTOR does not use subject headings, so your early searches may not be as precise as you would like!

Where isJSTOR? • the easiest way to get to JSTOR:- go to the CSUDH Library Home Page. - under Electronic Databases on LH side of screen, click “Frequently Used”. - click on JSTOR. • you may alsoget to JSTORthrough the “A-Z List” of electronic databases: - go to the CSUDH Library Home Page. - under Electronic Databases on LH side of screen, click A-Z list. - click on “J” and click on JSTOR in the A-Z List.

After clicking on JSTOR, you may see this Authentication (login) Screen: Fill in both boxes. Type carefully! Click Submit.

Do an actual search in JSTOR: • Example: just as in the previous segment on Academic Search Premier, you need several recent articles from peer reviewed journals on how postmodernism has influenced the work of historians. • Note that the main concepts in the topic stated above are underlined. (Concepts are the different ideas which make up each unique search topic). You can break down most topics into two or three main concepts. • Identify the most specific concept of your topic and search that one first: * If this first search finds only a few results, browse through them to identify those relevant to your topic. * If your first search retrieves too many references, do another search and add another concept using the AND connector to decrease your results (the next three screens show this process).

Optional: Limit to desired dates & to article Type search terms into search boxes Here’s the top part of the blank JSTORsearch page: Note: default is search of full text of all articles.

Here’s the lower part of the blank JSTORsearch page: Optional: Scroll down and click beside discipline(s) you want to search: e.g.; History

Databases are not case sensitive. 1. JSTOR: 1st search term (postmodernism) entered 788 results! Default is to sort results by relevance (change to date if desired) Be sure to click “Modify Search” to return to search screen -- don’t use your “Back” arrow!

2. JSTOR: 2nd search term (historians) entered Combining second search term with first search term and combining with AND reduced results only somewhat…to 538!

What now??? How about a proximity search? • when you search the full text of articles as you usually do in JSTOR, your results may contain many irrelevant records. However, here’s something to consider: in general, the closer two words are to each other in an article, the more likely it is that they are related to each other in some way.This means we may possibly find more relevant articles by specifying that our search terms must occur closer together in articles we get in search results. This type of searching is called proximity searching. • JSTOR lets us find terms that are within a specific number of words from each other using the tilde (~) to specify a proximity search.The tilde ~ works in the search to select only articles where proximity (closeness) of search terms is 10 or fewer words. For instance, to search postmodernism and historians within ten words of each other, arrange your search terms exactly like this:“postmodernism historians”~10 • try a few successive searches to see how decreasing or increasing the number after the tilde (~) affects your results. Double quotes around search terms No and needed between search terms No spacesbefore or after tilde~

3. JSTOR Search Results(3rd search, proximity search done with ~10): 52 results– now it’s time to start looking through and evaluating results... Another possible and more restrictive search: click Modify Search and enter “postmodernism historians”~5

Let’s look at the full text ofresult #8: Warning: Clicking on the title of the article does not work…you will see only one page of the article at a a time! To see and print the complete article, click on PDF!

Here’s what the beginning of the PDF article (result #8 by Patterson) looks like: Click these icons to save or print (don’t use your browser’s “File” menu commands.)

How can I learn more about using JSTOR? • A brief video tutorial with narration, created by JSTOR, is available here (once you have clicked, choose the video format that works best for you): http://tinyurl.com/cmxcoo • Here’s another narrated tutorialcreated by librarian Richard Baer of Camosun College:http://liontv.blip.tv/file/541319/ Back to Table of Contents

What if I already have the citation for a specific article? • If you think your article may be in a journal that JSTOR contains, log in to JSTOR and click the “Citation Locator” tab (just above the Advanced Search area). • If you think you know which database contains the journal article you need, log in to that database and try the strategy outlined in Part A of the Find a Specific article page. • If you don’t know which database to try for the journal you need, try the strategy outlined in Part B of the Find a Specific article page. Back to Table of Contents

Other good databases (in addition to Academic Search Premier and JSTOR) are available for Humanities topics. Searching in these databases could possibly lead you to more articles on your topic. Here are some possibilities: • America:History and Life: major database in North American history; includes citations and abstracts of over 2000 journals; 1982+; some links to full text in other databases. • Historical Abstracts indexes materials published since the 1970s, but also covers world history from prehistory through modern times. • Project Muse: full text of over 50 scholarly history journals. • Social Sciences Full Text: indexing and articles from over 100 history journals. • WilsonWeb: selected full text of over 4000 Humanities and Social Sciences journals.

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