Dig Deeper Strategy 2

>> 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.