 So you need to find some Scarlet Journal articles for your research. Library databases are a great tool to use to search for reliable information to use on your topic. At Changs, we have over 100 different databases you can choose from to search. This video will teach you how to select the appropriate databases to search and how to enter your keywords using various search tricks in order to find relevant articles on your topic. To begin searching for Scarlet 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. If you know the name of the database you're looking for, you can run a quick search for it by database name using the box provided. Or if you'd like to browse for a database to use, click on the view all databases link to open the complete list of all the databases available at Changs. Library databases can either be subject-specific or multidisciplinary. For your research, we have many databases that will provide access to different kinds of information. To choose the best resource for getting started, think about the subject area or broad topic area to which your research question applies. For example, are you interested in researching how to effectively integrate biblical worldview into your school's curriculum? Then databases that cover topics in the field of education, such as the database Eric or religion, such as the database Atla, would be good places to begin. Or you might be interested in researching effective strategies for onboarding new employees in your institution's culture. Then databases that cover topics in business management, such as business source premiere, or maybe again education, such as Eric or educated reference complete, might be best places to begin. Let the subject area of your research drive which database you select. To access these databases, use the subject dropdown to select a subject area that you'd like, for example, education, and view the best options and other potential resources that will be helpful for searching on topics within that subject area. When in doubt of which database would be best to begin searching with, databases such as academic search complete, which is one of our largest multi-subject databases, or academic one file or JSTOR are all great places for getting you started if you aren't sure what subject area would be best to look at first. We're going to go back to our subject area of education and select one of the premier resources for research and education, Eric. Please note that if you're accessing resources from off campus at the time in which you click on the name of the database, this is where you will be prompted to log into Blackboard first before being directed immediately to the database search page. To begin your searching, type in your keywords into the search box at the top of the screen. Say we are interested in finding scholarly research articles about classroom observations as a potential method of evaluation for teachers' performances. From this research question, we might pull out the keywords teacher performance, evaluation or assessment, and classroom observation. Enter each one of your unique keywords under their own search line. Now's a good time to point out a few things about constructing a search. When constructing a search in a library database, we use a search strategy called Boolean searching. Boolean searching refers to the use of the search operators and or it not in a search. Notice that in my search, each of my search boxes are connected with the operator and this is telling my search return results for me that include all three of these concepts that I have entered. Notice as well that for one of my terms, we've built in potential synonyms or alternate words that we want to include in our search. To build in synonyms or variations of potential keywords, use the or Boolean search operator to connect your terms together. Lastly, notice that for some of our keywords, we're applying some search tricks that are helping to either narrow or broaden our results. For the keyword teacher performance, we're wrapping this term in quotes. This helps narrow our search results to look for only mention of these two words together as one unit. For the term evaluate, we've added the asterisk symbol to the root of this word so that we can help broaden that term to include any potential ending such as evaluates evaluating or evaluation. When brainstorming keywords, look for areas where you can apply these tips to help get better results. After you've entered your keywords, you can then filter your results to return a specific set of information. One important checkbox that you always want to remember just to select is the Scarly peer review checkbox. This will return only articles that are considered to be reputable and have been through the peer review process. By default, notice we've already preset a few filters for you as well, and they all have to do with full text access to articles. They are print at Gordon, full text in Epsco, and full text in another database. This means that anything that you search for right now, you'll have immediate access to either online or in print at Janks. At any time, if you want to look beyond what Gordon has, you can uncheck these boxes within your search, allowing you to search across the entire databases index of potential articles. Once you have your limiters set, go ahead and click search. From here, review the list of results for articles that are of interest to you. When you've found a title that looks interesting, click on the blue title link to view the record. Basic information about the article will be at the top of the record, such as the source or journal that is published in, author information, descriptor terms that could potentially help you brainstorm other potential keywords to search by, and then, of course, the abstract or summary of the article. Since we're searching with our full text limiters on, choose a left will be a link to the full text of the article. This section will have multiple different potential access options. In the case of articles that are linked out using full text finder, click on that full text finder link. And then, from this page, look for the link option that looks like a little piece of paper. In this case, it's our top link from Sage. And there is the full text of the article that you can begin reading. If we return to our search results in Eric, notice that you have other potential access options, more full text finder options, an HTML option, and also PDF links as well. Thanks for watching. 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