 Academic Search Complete contains over 6,000 full-text journals and magazines, over 5,000 peer-reviewed journals, and this database contains a large range of topics including chemistry, multicultural studies, and philosophy to name a few. Want to get started with Academic Search Complete? A good research topic starts with a question you are truly curious about. If you need help developing your topic, explore subject matter and ideas with our online reference tool, Gale e-books. I've placed a direct link to Gale e-books for Shoreline Community College students in the description box of this video. Academic databases don't understand casual speech the same way search engines can. If you need help turning your research topic into keywords and phrases, check out the keyword video I've linked in the description. Scholarly databases such as Academic Search Complete contain articles from journals, magazines, newspapers, and even media like podcasts or videos, making them ideal for both finding scholarly and popular sources for academic research assignments. To get started with Academic Search Complete, first navigate to the Ray Howard Library website. If you start at shoreline.edu you'll find the library's link under campus life then library technology center. On the library's website, click the research tab then choose databases. The first link on this page goes to Academic Search Complete. I've placed a direct link for Shoreline Community College students to Academic Search Complete in the description box of this video. Enter your search term in the separate boxes adding quotation marks around phrases that are more than one word. Keep in mind that the default search behavior is always and but can be changed to or and not for more customized searches. My next tip is once you find an article that's really close to the topic that you want, look here at subject headings. If you click on the subject heading it will automatically enter it in the box for you along with DE the code that means subject heading. Before you hit search, remember to click the full text box. If you don't see the red PDF symbol or the yellow HTML full text icon next to each of your results, go back and repeat your search with the full text box checked. Partial articles are frustrating because the only way to get them is through interlibrary loan. If you do get a detailed record and want to get the full article, use our interlibrary loan form to request it. I've added a direct link to the interlibrary loan form for Shoreline Community College students in the description box of this video. Next you can use the slider on the side to change the year. If you're researching a topic in science or politics, you'll want your sources to be within the last five years. If your topic is historical, you may wish to change the slider to the timeframe you are studying. Academic Search Complete is a database that contains scholarly articles that are appropriate for college level work. Some of the articles in Academic Search Complete are peer reviewed or scholarly journals, but not all. To narrow your results to only peer reviewed articles, check this box for academic journals on the results screen. Lastly, since we are using a database with an authentication proxy, remember that you can't copy and paste the URL from your browser. If you need a link to get back to this page, use the permalink from the right toolbar. This will prompt you to sign in if you use it from off-campus. You can also save articles with these other options from the sidebar to email it to yourself, save the PDF or print. If you email the article to yourself, note that Academic Search Complete will send you a citation in either APA, MLA, or the Chicago Citation format. If you have questions or would like a librarian to help you research your topic with Academic Search Complete, stop in during our hours or connect with a librarian through our 24-hour chat service.