 Alright, so this is nowhere to go secondary sources. I am Alex Boris, I use my pronouns are she her, and I'm a Commons librarian and kind of some of what I do is research assistance. We're going to public service desk and I do some cool programming stuff. Hey everyone, I'm Brittany Norwood. I'm also a Commons librarian so much like Alex I do research assistance I do programming different things like that you also might find is at the front desk from Sunday through Tuesday. Yep yep. Right. So this is kind of what we'll be covering. We're going to talk about what database what our databases, how to get to the database and what does research look and feel like. And then at the end of everything, we're going to have a 15 minute Q&A. So if you have questions you can put them in the chat, we will get to them at the end. Okay, so let's get started. Before we just swing into this we want to give you all a chance to help us what you think secondary sources are. So go ahead and put the your answers in the chat. And, Nilo, the previous sections should be on the UT Libraries YouTube page. I will put that in chat at the end of the lesson. Okay somebody go ahead and tell us what you think a secondary source is. And if you're not comfortable putting it public you can send it directly to me. So somebody saying journals, articles. It was Thursday, February 10. Okay, well, thank you for that you all ask you go ahead and change the slide, I will give you all a bit of a rundown on what secondary sources are. So journals and articles can be secondary sources. But here's the thing. A secondary source is a resource that comments on sites, adds to or refers to the original events that have already taken place. So they are sources about a topic after the time period that you're looking at. So this little diagram that I've made kind of talks a little bit about, you know, why that framing is important, because yeah journals articles books. These things can all be secondary sources but it really depends on the timeframe that you were looking at in regards to your own topic. If we think about what I have right here. There's a review of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. It was written yesterday. If you're studying the film's impact, when it was first released when the first three years of it being released, then this review could be a secondary source actually, because it's thinking it's looking at the time period from the film and a review of the film from a different perspective it's commenting maybe on things that have happened. And it's outside of the time period that you're already thinking of. However, if you're studying the legacy of the film. So maybe you're thinking about the its impact still today, then the same review could be a primary source. If you're looking at that sort of currency, then, yeah, this is something that falls within the time period of your topic so really a secondary source depends on any the degree of separation from what you're looking at. It depends more on how you're thinking about the timeframe of your topic, you're needing something that's commenting on it, as opposed to, you know, being in the middle of the action. Okay, and Alex can you switch sides please. So this brings us to our next topic about what databases actually are. So they are systems that aggregate and organize information. For example, articles from various journals. And they are searchable, which means that you can go to them you can input some keywords. And it should search through the information that it has within it to find the, or find sources that mention those things. And if you're still confused, there is a guide here by the University of Chicago Illinois that goes into a lot more detail about this. And a quick note is that one database won't show all the information in our collection. So if you are wanting to find a more comprehensive list of sources you're probably going to have to check several different databases to find out. And now we're going to touch on the difference between articles journals databases and vendors because this is something that we often see students have some issues with. So articles are typically they're standalone published works, they may be peer reviewed. They're often included in larger publications so journals, sometimes books, and they're typically more hyper focused on a specific topic. So these journals, typically, they are journal articles are looking at something that is quite specific. It's, I find it pretty rare that you're finding a journal article that is talking about, you know, a broad scope of something such as the definition of maybe environmental science. Because these are more supposed to be snippets that show specific insights into the field you're looking at journals on the other hand are aggregate works that are published periodically. They're often peer reviewed, although that's not necessarily the case. You can change multiple texts, often articles, and they're broader in scope. So a journal itself might be focused on say environmental science, whereas the article is going to be focused, or the article within it is going to be focused on something specific to the And then we get to databases. So databases are actually quite different from journals they are the things that store and organize this information, like I said they make it searchable. They are broader in scope than journals even, well, often at least. And they usually only contain select publications. And some way thing that we see a lot of students get confused with is the difference between the database and a vendor. The vendors are the companies that license manage and maintain databases, and they often manage more than one database so something like ebsco may own several different databases. So, if you are searching for something, then you might be using ebsco, but it's more helpful if you're thinking about the title of the database you're looking at. But that comes to my mind immediately is ProQuest. So ProQuest owns Psychinfo, which is one of my favorite databases as somebody who used to be a psychology major. That being said, ProQuest also owns databases and several other fields. So for example, they also own several historical newspaper databases. Because of this, if I were to tell my professor that I went to ProQuest to find my sources, then they may say well, what about ProQuest? It's kind of like saying, oh, somebody asking you the title of a book you read and you say, oh, I read the Chronicles of Narnia, you know, there are several different pieces to that. And saying that, yeah, you're giving an idea of what you did, but you're not saying, you know, specifically, I read the line which in the wardrobe, which, you know, is quite different from some of the other books in the series. So, now let's talk about how we can get databases and how you can get to finding your secondary sources. Okay, hi, I'm going to talk about this part. So how to get to databases. It's actually really easy. We try to make everything easy for you. So first you'll go to the library's homepage. And there is a tab that you'll see and I'll show all demo it here in a minute that says find materials. And then you're looking for a link that says articles and databases. If you do a page that you can see in this picture to the right, where that is what we call the articles and databases page there you can search for a specific title, or you can search by subject, as you can see in the picture. And then there are also other things you can do it by type so if you're looking for primary sources. That's how you do that. So whatever for secondary sources. A lot of what, at least what I like to use initially or some of these most popular databases down here. So yeah, it's super easy to get to this page. And next, I'm just going to show you as I show you kind of what research feels like. What I'm going to show you is just one way to do research. It doesn't mean necessarily that that is the only way to do it. But I'm going to try to cover as much as I can on what you might see when you're looking in a database. So if you'll give me one moment I'm going to stop sharing and show you my other screen. Can everybody kind of see my screen now just one double check. I should be able to so this is the main library web page. It's just live dot utk.edu. Now where the find materials are is right down here. And when you click that articles and databases page takes you here and this is what I was talking about on where you can search you can type in a title. You can look by subject. There are a lot of a little subject tags there. And then you can also look by type if you're looking for something fairly specific. Like I said a good one is like newspapers and newspapers and primary sources and that now I'm going to briefly kind of talk about these most popular databases because I feel like those are the ones that are the most at least what I'm doing more general searches and kind of give you an idea of what searching in a database looks like. So one thing I will say real quick though. Just as an aside, there's also research guides. The page looks like this. I'm just a quick, you know if you have a specific subject that you're working on. This is a great way we curate guides specifically to subject so like for English. There's an English one. Some of them are class specific some of them are just subject specific. The history is a really good example of that. If you're looking for, like, like there's the food and drink one. So I just wanted to quickly mention that. All right, so going back, we're on the articles and databases page. And I wanted to kind of show you kind of a process that I would do if I was searching for something. So I came up kind of with a mock search. So what I thought is I would search for something like say you're doing a paper on cryptids, or things like Bigfoot, or things like that so you type cryptids in here. And you can kind of see that when you do that. Some of the databases will pull that up for you or give you like hints. So that's always nice. Oh my God, a login again. Let's try that again. All right, so when you're on this page, you'll see it pulls up everything that says anything with the word cryptids. Now I always tell people to look for a couple of things when doing research first in every database, you want to make sure that you've set this setting to relevance. So that is going to pull up anything that has the word cryptids and put it up top so whatever the search thinks is most relevant. It's going to do that. And if you are looking for what a lot of secondary source papers asked for is peer reviewed materials. There's a filter for that. So you just click peer reviewed. And as you can see, only about 11 pulled up with cryptids. There's a lot when like searching sometimes you'll find that a phrase that you might have used isn't pulling up exactly what you want. So what I like to do is say this one is the closest one that you can find to what you're looking for. I like to look at these little subject terms here. You can see it says monsters as a subject term. So, okay, well, instead of searching for cryptids, why not just search for monsters. Let's see what that comes up. And it pulls up a lot more resources. Those subject tags are really great. And kind of help can help you broaden your searches. If you've gone to narrow. Now there are other searches you can do so say specifically you are looking for big foot. You'll see that this recommends big book and such watch. And if we click that search term there. And it's going to lessen our search even more from 2000 results to 143. And again, I always make sure it's on relevance and it's still limiters peer reviewed. So that pulls all that up. And I think the biggest thing my biggest advice would say, when you're doing this. I want to make sure that you use different search terms to get what you need, because every database has different subject tags. Those those subject terms and different ways of saying the exact same thing and how it is cataloged in a database. And I wanted to show you something one other thing real quick. I want to show you a little bit of what I'm going to show you. And I'm going to show you a little bit of what I'm going to show you. You come up with the term mythical creatures. Now I've still got it on relevance. I've still got it on peer reviewed. However, if you go down here, you're going to see there are some resources that are in a different language. And sometimes this does happen because we are pulling from different databases. So if you go down here, there is a language one if you click on that, click on whatever language you can read. And that'll narrow it down again to articles that you can actually use. So that push that down to 36, you can make sure that are things that you are looking for. That was kind of my brief overview of that kind of database, going back to the articles and databases page I wanted to quickly kind of go over what each of these databases kind of equates to in this most popular section. So academic search complete. That is a database that is is pretty wide range. I recommend things for more humanities so like more English or history or stuff like that it's it's pretty broad. I like to start there a lot of business source complete I feel like that's pretty self explanatory it has a lot of good business resources. And the next one, I call it, I say sin all. That is more of a medical database so sin all, and this one down here pub med. If you're looking for like biology, any of any of the science that's mostly medical. And even some psychology but it's even it's more closely for medical. That's where you go. The next one Eric. That's an education database so if you have questions about, or if your research paper is about education, Eric is a great resource. We've put dissertations and theses on here. If you're looking for a specific dissertation or theses. So great resource. I like info. That one is more for psychology. So if you have more of a psychological question. That's where I recommend you go and scopus and web of science I kind of lump those together. They're more for like the social sciences or sciences. I kind of like to think of web of science and academic search complete as kind of the same, except for web of science is more specific science and academic search complete is better for humanities questions. Yeah, that's kind of my quick overview of those databases.