 So, you need to find Scarlett Journal articles for your research. Library databases are a great tool to use to search for reliable information to use on your topic. At JANX, we have over 100 different databases you can choose to search. This video will teach you how to select the appropriate database to search and how to enter your keywords in order to find relevant articles on your topic. To begin searching for Scarlett articles in a library database, go to the library homepage at www.gordon.edu-slash-library. In the search the library section, click on the databases tab, and if you know the name of the database you're looking for, you can run a quick search for it in the box provided, or you can click on the view all databases link to open the complete list of all databases available at JANX. Databases can either be subject-specific or multidisciplinary. You should select your database based on the topic area of your research question. JANX has many subject-specific databases. You can filter this database list by subject area to get an idea of what those specific subject databases might be. It's important when you're searching that you run searches in multiple databases, so you are looking at a wide range of potential research. In this video, we're only going to look at one database, Academic Search Ultimate. From the A to Z list, Academic Search Ultimate is the second link down. Academic Search Ultimate is a great database to begin with because it is one of our largest multidisciplinary databases available at JANX Library. At the top of the search page will be the search boxes, how you actually construct the search you want to run, and then everything else below that is how you limit the results that you want to appear. To begin your searching, typing your keywords in the search boxes at the top of the screen. This is where your research question comes back into play. Remember that work we did in part one to develop keywords from your research question? Dig those back out again and follow along. We're going to be working with the same research question that we used in that video. Our research question was, how can city farming help improve food security in urban areas? Remember, we identified as starting keywords, city farming and food security. And we're going to use those keywords and enter each one of those terms into their own separate search box in our database, Academic Search Ultimate. We're going to start with the keyword city farming. Remember in that video, we were to develop potential synonyms to city farming that we can include in a search. We identified urban agriculture and city gardening as other related terms to city farming. When working in a search engine like Academic Search Ultimate, you can enter your synonym search in one separate search box. We connect these synonym terms together using our or bullion search operator. In the second line down, enter your second term. In this case, our second term is food security. We don't need to write in our search operator this time because our database does it for us. Notice the and button to the left of each of your search boxes. This and button is what's connecting our two terms together. In telling our database, we want to search for articles containing both of those terms. After you enter your keywords, then you can filter your results to return a specific set of information. Notice that a few of these filtering options under the limit your results sections are already selected for you. They are print at Gordon, full text in another database and full text. All that means is that the information you are searching for right now, you'll have immediate access to either as a PDF link or a web document link of some kind that gets you connected to the full article that you can begin reading. One important check box to always remember to select in this limit your results section is the Scarly peer review journals check box. Databases, while most useful for finding Scarly articles, can actually help connect you to a lot of different material such as popular magazines, newspaper articles, or even conference proceedings. Checking off the Scarly peer review journals check box is what helps filter out that information so that you are only getting peer-reviewed articles that have been written by scholars and experts within the field of study. This is why library database searching is so powerful because it readily connects you to this kind of information, which you can freely access as a student at Gordon. Once you've entered your keywords and set your limiters, you can then click search. At this stage of my research, I'm going to scan the first page or two of my results and look at the blue title links, which are the titles of the articles, to see what jumps out at me, what might be a good place to begin my research. For example, as I scroll through my results, the first article, number one, urban agriculture in the food disabling city catches my eye. From the title, it seems like a good place that I might begin. To learn more about this article, click on the blue title link, and now we're looking at the article's record. This record contains information such as the article's title, the contributing authors, and most importantly, what source or journal this article was published in. One other important section on the article's record is the abstract. The abstract is the summary of the article you were looking at. It's a good idea to get in the habit of reading these abstracts so that you can get a better idea of what the article is about and make better judgments if this is something that's actually worth your time reading for your final paper. Remember, since we were searching with our full text limiters on, we have access to the full text over in the left column. In this case, there's actually two access options. We can either choose to read it online as an HTML full text or open up the PDF of this article. Clicking on the PDF link will open the article right away, which you can then download or save to your laptop. Other potentially useful tools that are available to you in the right hand tool column is the button in the middle that says SITE. If we click on this SITE button, it will give us the article citation in all of the major citation formats, such as APA, Chicago, and MLA. You always want to double check generated citations from a library database to make sure it's accurate before including them in your works cited page. Academic Search Ultimate is just one example of a library database you can use to search. Other multidisciplinary databases that you might spend some time searching are Academic One File and JSTOR. Use this time in TGC to get familiar with some of the subject-specific databases related to your area of interest. Thanks for watching, and remember, if you need help, ask Jinx.