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Using Scholarly Articles in your Research

Extended Essay 2011

What is a Scholarly Article?Where to find them:•EBSCO•Google Scholar•Federated Search•Open Access Journals

+Extended Essays require the use of Scholarly Articles

Extended Essays require that you include scholarly articles in their research papers.

But how can you tell the difference between a scholarly publication and a popular one that's written for a general audience?

+What are Scholarly Articles?

A scholarly article or book is generally based on original research or experimentation. It is written by a researcher or expert in the field who is often affiliated with a college or university. Source: Adapted from: library.queensu.ca/webisi/survivalguide/glossary.html

+Is it Scholarly? Or not….

Take a look at these magazines and see if you think they are scholarly.

+Is it Scholarly or Popular?

Journal-Scholarly Magazine-Popular

Content Detailed report of original research or experiment.

Secondary report or discussion may include personal narrative, opinion, anecdotes.

Author Author's credentials are given, usually a scholar with subject expertise.

Author may or may not be named; often a professional writer; may or may not have subject expertise.

Audience Scholars, researchers, students. General public; the interested non-specialist.

Language Specialized terminology or jargon of the field; requires prior knowledge.

Vocabulary in general usage; understandable to most readers.

References/Bibliography

Required. All quotes and facts can be verified.

Rare. Scanty, if any, information about sources.

Examples Developmental Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Almost anything with Journal in the title. Usually come with memberships in scholarly societies and are only available in libraries.

Psychology Today, Discover, news magazines. Almost anything available in a store.

+ Why Is It Important To Use Scholarly Sources For A Research Paper?

for example, medical care keeps getting better because of research!

you’ll need to credit those researchers ideas in your own paper!

And, of course, it’s important to use scholarly sources because your instructor told you to!

Building Blocks of Knowledge

Scholarshipbuilds on previous ideas and discoveries.

Creating a Path to Discovery

Researchers credit those ideas and discoveries through citations (references).

New Knowledge is Created

Students write papers and cite researchers, and become the next generation of researchers.

+EBSCO: Set of databases subscribed to by Harbor School

+Choose the Databases you want

+Choose Academic Search Elite

Now type in your key words and phrases to find articles

+Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a specialized search engine which looks much like Google web search, but searches only for scholarly articles and books.

The search results include: Citations for articles Links to free or fee-based full-text articles. Fee based articles may be available free from the KAUST

University Library

http://scholar.google.com

+When is Google Scholar best to use? Initial searching for scholarly literature

When a particular article from a specific journal needed

Quickly find a relevant article - search results sorted by relevancy. Relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article, the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature.

http://libwww.syr.edu/instruction/questions/Google-Scholar.htm

+Phrase Search

Phrase search: as in regular Google, you can enclose a phrase in quotation marks to indicate that you only want to search for those words together, in that order. For example: "world war I" or "united states" or "Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura"

+Title Search

Title search: use the operator "intitle:" to search for your keywords only in the title of the article. For example, intitle:ethnography will search for articles that have the word ethnography in the title (otherwise, Google Scholar looks for the word anywhere in the citation).

+Author Search

Author search: use the operator "author:" to search for an author by name. For example, author:"smith ja" searches for an author with the last name Smith, and the initials J.A.

+Advanced Search

Advanced search

Here you can search by author, publication date or journal title, or limit your search to a particular subject area.

Find more detailed instruction on these search tips and more at Google Scholar Advanced Search Tips.

+Coverage in Google Scholar

At present, limited subset of scholarly literature.

It is large, but it’s only a small fraction of what’s available.

What journals and databases are covered? How far back? You can not browse journals

Beta version – growing and has a great potential

Some Humanities and Social Sciences covered but mainly science and technology

+KAUST University Federated Search

http://library.kaust.edu.sa/

+Specific Databases

+Open Access Resources

http://www.doaj.org/

+Please try out these databases

See if you can find at least two Scholarly Articles to use in your research

Save them in a folder on your desktop