Finding and Citing Articles from 36 Database PowerSearch: A Step-by-Step Approach

1. Finding and Citing Articles from 36 Database PowerSearch: A Step-by-Step Approach Dr. Jun Wang San Joaquin Delta College

2. Expected Learning Outcomes Be able to locate 36 Database PowerSearch from Delta College Library web page Be able to conduct a Subject GuideSearch with a selected topic and retrieve needed information Be able to conduct an effective Basic Search with keywords from a selected topic and retrieve needed information Be able to evaluate retrieved information and limit your search to professional, research articles from journals Be able to print, e-mail, and cite the retrieved sources 2

3. 2 1 • Steps: • Go to the library web site and click on Online Databases • Click on the database

4. 1 2 4 3 • Steps: • Select Subject Guide Search • Enter a topic • Limit your search results to documents with full text • Click on Search

5. Step: Look for subheadings under the main subject.

6. Step: Select a subheading.

7. Click on the selected folder Click on the article title or Full-text link to read the article.

8. 1 2 • Steps: • Identify a pertinent article • Click on Citation Tools to display the citation

9. Conduct a Basic Search 1 2 4 3 • Steps: • Click on Basic Search • Enter the keywords and use Boolean logic operators to narrow or broaden your • Search (AND is used to narrow the search, and OR and NOT are used to narrow the search) • Select Keyword search • Click on Search

10. Steps: • Select a folder • Click on the title or the • Full-text link to display • the article 1 2

11. 1 2 • Notes: • The number • (8.4) right after • the journal title, • Eduction Next, • refers to Volume • 8, Issue 4. • The number (8) • in parenthesis • after the page • number refers to • the number of • pages in its • original print • publication. • Steps: • View the article and understand its elements for citation • Click on Citation Tools to see the citation

12. 1 2 3 • Steps: • Select an appropriate style • Click on Save • Open the citation document with the default browser

13. Important Note: For the most part, the computer-generated citations are correct. There are a couple of known problems that are yet to be ironed out, though. For instance, in MLA style, we should capitalize all keywords in the article or chapter title from a book or periodical, but they are listed in lower case in the database except the leading letter in the article or proper nouns. Also, we only include the main URL or web address (before the first single forward slash) for sources from any subscription online databases. Until a solution to such problems is identified for automated citations, we will have to manually capitalize keywords in the article title and omit the unnecessary parts in the URL.

14. Assessing Your Learning Outcomes Where do you go to find 36 Database PowerSearch? Would you be able to conduct a Subject Guide Search with a selected topic and located needed information? Would you be able to conduct a Basic Search with keywords from a selected topic and locate needed information? How to limit your search to professional, research articles from journals? How do you print, e-mail, and cite the retrieved sources? 14