>> For strategy number 2, to dig deeper.
We're going to pick up where we left off in strategy 1.
We had identified these keywords in
Google Scholar that look really relevant to my topic.
I have narrowed down to Third Space, Higher Education,
Teacher Identity, these are all the kind of articles
that I want to take a look at related to my research.
I'm going to copy that phrase,
and instead of putting it into U search,
I'm going to click on "Databases".
Databases are collections of
scholarly journals and articles that are specific,
sometimes by discipline, other times more general,
and this will give us good quality scholarly peer reviewed material.
That means material that's published,
that has been reviewed by experts before it was published.
I just want to show you this little diagram about information.
At the California State University Chico library website,
they have this great diagram about information structure.
The information is stored,
there is a hierarchical structure to it,
so if this database was Google Scholar,
we were finding scholarly journals and we were
finding books in Google Scholar.
Then when we search books,
there's individual books where we found journal,
there were individual articles.
In Google Scholar, it's
deceptive because it takes you right down to the article,
it doesn't really show you this in-between space.
In the library catalog,
if you consider that the big database,
you find scholarly journals and books,
but you also find popular magazines and newspapers and multimedia.
So you find a collection of everything that the library owns.
Popular magazines and newspapers like New York Times,
economics journals like any of those popular magazine topics,
People Magazine, National Geographic,
Time Magazine, those are all considered popular resources.
They are not to the standard of peer-reviewed scholarly materials
because there is not an editorial process
where that material is peer-reviewed.
There's an editor to the journal,
and then there are journalists who may or may not be experts in the topic.
When you're in a scholarly journal, it's researchers,
experts that are writing articles about their own research,
so you have a different level of quality.
In your case, your instructor may ask you to have mostly scholarly journals,
or peer-reviewed articles, and that would be just in this group,
not in magazines, not in multimedia,
and not in books, and e-books.
Some faculty do consider books scholarly if it's
an edited volume and there's editors and peer-review process involved,
but not all the time.
If we go back to the library homepage,
oops, let's go back here for a minute.
I'm going to click again on "Databases".
There's two ways that you can search by databases,
alphabetically or by subject.
If I click "Education" by subject,
it will show me all of the databases that have education content in them.
They're all could be very different,
this is education children's books,
this is education psychology.
This top one is the one that's recommended by the librarian,
education full-text and ERIC.
But instead of searching these individually,
I'm going to show you a database that you can search
across many different topics and disciplines.
We're going to click on E,
and we're going to come down to EBSCOhost Databases.
When you open up this window,
you will see a list of different sub databases within that.
Academic Search ultimate is a great database,
it covers a lot of different topics.
I find a lot of things in there no matter what topic I'm searching,
I always find things there.
I'm just going to select a few here.
I'm going to go down to APA,
and I'm going to go down to ease.
There's other ones that I would select,
but just for time,
I'm just going to select a few of them here.
You can take a look at these depending on your topic.
I'm not going to do that one because it only goes up to 1983.
I'm going to just select those,
and then I'm going to continue,
now if I go to Google Scholar and I bring these keywords in,
you will see that we don't find nearly as many articles.
I found 1,500 articles in Google Scholar and four here.
What I normally do when I'm in these databases is I use advanced search.
I use the big search term in
the library catalog and I use it in Google Scholar.
But now I'm going to break up my key terms,
so I could do practice here in this first field,
and I don't need to use quotation marks because
it's already in its own special field.
Practice, they're also recommending strategies or approaches,
so I'm going to select that because those ORs will broaden my search.
Those three words are similar,
and I didn't think of those words,
but this will help me broaden my search a little more.
Then here's the word AND,
and I'm going to put in "third
space" and third space theory professionals,
I'm just going to select third space which will be broader.
Once you put the professionals in there it I'll
only find third space professionals.
Then I could also put in there language,
or I could put professionals down here,
so let's do professional separate,
and you'll see, does it give me any other options?
Professionalism,
professional development, professional identity, let's do that one.
Now I'm going to search and instead of four, I'm getting 23.
I can play around with my keywords that might
be because of that identity word there,
so I'm going to 206.
This is getting closer,
now I'm looking at Faculty,
I'm looking at Teacher Education,
I'm looking at Third Space,
so this search looks better than what I was getting before.
Down here on the bottom left-hand side of
the column in the faceted searching menu at the very bottom,
it's telling me how many articles it's finding in each of those databases.
Academic Search Premier, it's finding 66 articles, which is good,
ERIC 55, so these are my top two databases for this type of search.
I can click on the title,
and then I can read the abstract,
I can look for additional keywords,
and then I can download the PDF from here.
Usually in the databases you have to do a second click,
either an arrow or an open to download the actual article.
On the right-hand menu,
there is a cite similar to Google Scholar,
so up here's my APA citation for that,
but again, you have to check it that it may not be correct.
Other databases that you might want to search go to the letter J for JSTOR,
go to P for Project MUSE or to other good databases for my topic.
I would go there and I would maybe look at these,
so I would do Practices or Strategies or Approaches, and Third Space,
and Professional and see what I find in those databases.