 Hello! In this video, you'll learn how to search different library resources to help you find good information for your trends or topics in mathematics paper. For this particular assignment, you're asked to explore trends or topics that plays a role over a significant time span in the history of mathematics. We'll look at a couple of different examples of possible trends or topics that you might pick as we explore some of our different resources. There are three primary categories of research that we might explore for this topic. We could start with background research to get familiar with our topic or trend, then we can move into finding potential book sources to see if anybody has published about this idea over its history, and then we can look really specifically for some scholarly journal articles that can help us learn a little bit about what had scholars done with this particular topic or trend within the literature. Let's start with background information. To help us out with this class, the library has created a course guide that's specific to the Math 491 class. We're going to start there. First, go to the library homepage at www.gordon.edu.slashlibrary. Once you're on the page, go ahead and scroll down to the orange research box and click on research guides. From here, click on the Mathematics Subject Guide and then into the Math 491 Senior Seminar Course Guide. You'll see here this course guide contains a lot of information about different resources you can access for the information you need. We're going to jump around to a couple of these as we explore how to do research for your topic or your trend. The first category of research I recommended was background information, and right here on our homepage you can see we have a box that suggests a whole bunch of different background research options that you might explore. One of my favorites is Credo Reference. Credo Reference is a great all-around background information resource because it covers research on many different subject areas. Say for example, we wanted to look at the topic or trend of Boolean Logic. You could go ahead and type in our keyword Boolean Logic and see what basic or high level encyclopedia entry do I get on my particular search. There's a lot of different options that come up here, some from the perspective of computing and others from different areas. If we were to jump into one of these, I'm going to click on the top one as an example, and we can see we get a brief overview of what that particular concept or topic or trend is. Also notice if we go back to our search results, we get over here in the corner of something called a mind map. This map is actually showing us what are other connected or related ideas to the terms that we've entered. Here you might actually discover that there might be a particular individual or person that's associated with your particular trend or topic that you can click on further and explore. So that's some basic information to help you get started, but let's take this further. Another piece of information that you can use is searching for your topic or trend within our noble catalog to help you find books related to your topics. If I click on the noble catalog tab in your course guide, I've given you some suggestions on where books and mathematics are often housed within our library. These are almost always on stack level five. And then we're going to go ahead and run a quick search in the noble catalog for your topic or trend. From your noble catalog tab, go ahead and click on the noble catalog link, and this opens up the full catalog search option. You can type in any combination or terms that you're looking for based on the topic or trend that you're trying to explore. Let's switch over to a very specific topic in mathematics history, the traveling salesman topic. I'm going to go ahead and type in traveling salesman. Notice as I'm doing that, I'm wrapping my search term in quotes. This is telling me I want the traveling salesman problem as one idea, one concept that I'm looking for books on. And then go ahead and click search. If Gordon has any information related to the keywords that you've entered, your search results will appear. Notice we've got a couple of really good options for the traveling salesman problem. And we have a mixture of both print books, which is this top one that really can't hear and ebooks. Let's go ahead and jump into an ebook because you can access these from anywhere that you might happen to be. Go ahead and click on the second one down from here, we're looking at what we call the books record, we could learn a little bit more about it, the title, the author, some potential subject terms or other keywords that we might use to explore this particular topic. And then to actually access this ebook, we're going to click on the link below the electronic resources header, access for Gordon college via ebsco host. And now we're looking at the full ebook and the ebsco host reader. And you can see by glancing at the table of contents here for this particular book, it goes through a pretty in depth overview of this particular topic or trend. There are a couple of different ways that we can search for the noble to find the information that you're looking for. I started out by searching for a very specific idea, the traveling salesman problem. So it was okay if I kept my search a little bit broad, but others of you might be doing stuff that maybe requires a little more fine tuning. You can click over to the advanced search tab and enter in potential keyword, let's say prime numbers, and go ahead and say, I want that keyword in the title of the book that I'm looking for. This allows you to look specifically for only those books that have that particular keyword in the title, so that you hopefully find the exact section within our library where these books are housed. Notice there's a lot of really good examples here as well about prime numbers. I think you'll find that you'll retrieve a mixture of ebooks and print books within our library. Let's go ahead and take a look at a print book just so you can see how you find that information within our library. If you'd located a print book, you need two pieces of information for finding it within janks. The first is a location, which is the floor that it's located on. For most of them, they're going to be stack level five, and then it's the call number, which is basically the book's physical address in the south. Please take a note at the beginning part of your call number. It should most often begin with a Q, because that's the math section. You might find that books about your particular topic or trend are all in the same area of the library. So I would go ahead and head up to the QA 246 section and see what are all the other books shelled with that area about prime numbers. Alright, so let's go ahead and leave books behind and jump to our third level of research, which is something really specific journal articles. If you hop over to the databases tab on your course guide, you'll find a couple of suggestions for ways in which you can get started searching. I recommend for anybody in this class, academic search ultimate. It's one of our largest multidisciplinary databases and can really help you find information covering from a lot of different fields and perspectives. I'm going to go ahead and jump into academic search ultimate and we're going to go back to the first example that we use or the traveling salesman problem. And once again, I'm going to wrap that that idea in quotes to make sure that I'm searching that as one whole unit. One really important thing to remember when you're searching in library databases for scholarly articles is that you want to select the scholarly peer reviewed journal checkbox in the limit your results section. I'm going to go ahead and click that off and click search. Now what I'm doing is I'm asking across all of the database academic search ultimate what's every single article that mentions the term traveling salesman problem. Our results serve by sort by relevance. So the best results are always going to be filtered towards the tops. And you can see as early as May and June 2020 or September on October 2020. The traveling salesman problem is still being discussed in the research. This is fascinating. I might head to this top one first because it was published so recently to learn how are people still talking about the traveling salesman problem even in today's age. When you jump into the title of the article, you can first learn who are the authors of this particular article, the source, which is what journal it's coming from, some potential other subject terms for how you might talk about your particular topic or trend and then the all important abstract, which is just the summary of the article. You can read a little bit about this to learn whether it's actually going to be useful to include in your topic or your trends paper. And then since we were searching in the library databases, we have the option to click on that PDF full text right in the left hand side to go ahead and open up the full article. So those are the three different layers that you can explore for research on your topic or your trends paper. The last thing that I want to show you is another specific way in which you can search for academic articles within academic journals. If we hop over to the very last tab for research on your course guide, the academic journals tab, you'll see I've given you a list of some of the common math journals that we actually have available at Jenks. Searching within journals can be a really powerful and easy way to quickly find information on your topic. Let me show you what I mean. On your academic journals tab, I'm going to go ahead and click into one of these math journals at Jenks options that I've given you. We're going to start with Mathematics Magazine. When you click into the title of the journal from your course guide, you're presented with a list of access options. How exactly do we access this information at Jenks? You can click on any one of these options to actually get access to it. But note that you want to pay attention to the date range here. We have two access options here for online research. JSTOR, but our full text delayed by four years so we don't have current information in that one. Or we could click into Taylor and Francis and get all the way to the present. I like to begin with the most current research. So I'm going to go ahead and click into Taylor and Francis. Now we are what we're looking at is a very common example of what journals look like from the publisher's website. And in order to be able to search within this particular journal, I want to use the search box up at the top here. And notice already that it's filtered for me to say this journal. So I'm actually going to hop back. We're going to go back to our prime number example. Say I wanted to search across all of my mathematics magazine for the keyword prime number. We'll enter that keyword in our search box, click search. And now we're looking at the 148 articles that specifically mentioned prime numbers within the journal Mathematics Magazine. So you might find a couple of things. One that there's one particular journal that publishes a lot on the topic or trend that you're interested in. Or maybe you're recommended to look at a specific journal by your professor. Go ahead and see if you can find it on the academics tab here or look it up in our journal finder search option to see this chance library have access to this particular journal and then use the search within function to find the articles that you're looking for. As you can see, there's a lot of different ways in which you can find information for your topics or your trend paper in various levels of specificity about how it's discussed throughout the history of this particular topic. I hope that this helps. And if you have any questions, you can always ask Jenks.