 Hello. Welcome to Jenks Library. My name is Carolyn Oakes and I'm the Instruction Librarian here. Today, I'm here to help you with your weekly assignment to locate a scholarly or peer-reviewed article related to your weekly topic. My goal is that you will be able to quickly and easily find sources that are on topic, free to access, and of course scholarly or peer-reviewed. These are sources that are written by experts in the field and then rigorously reviewed before being published in scholarly journals. In this video, I will show you how to search library databases by topic. Let's start at the library homepage of Gordon.edu slash library. There are a lot of resources linked here, but for today we'll be focusing on this search the library box, specifically the tabs for databases and journals. Start with a database search when searching for a specific topic. After selecting databases, I like to select View All Databases, unless I know that I want to search within a specific database like PubMed or Academic Search Ultimate. To narrow down this list of 135 databases, use the subject dropdown to narrow down to Communication Sciences and Disorders. Up top, two databases have been highlighted as best bets for CSD research, but there are other multidisciplinary databases that you can search within as well. Select Communication and Mass Media Complete, and it will open up to the Advanced Search. This search starts with more features than a Google search. One important tool here is the peer reviewed box, which narrows down the search results to only include scholarly and peer reviewed articles. When you search in a database, use specific terms. For example, if I'm looking for a scholarly article on phonological disorders, I might want to focus on a specific disorder in my research. This search has only yielded 10 results. To expand search results, add in like terms connected by the Boolean operator OR. This tells the search engine that I want either term in my results, while the Boolean operator AND says I want both terms in my results and will narrow my results. If you can't think of terms, start typing OR, and most databases will suggest like terms. When you select an article title, it will bring up several key resources. An abstract, a link to the full text, and a toolbar on the side, which gives you access to citations. Another important link in this toolbar is permalinking. If you want to save a link and not download the article, make sure that you're selecting the permalink, as the URL at up top will not direct you through Jenk's library.