Academic Search Premier can be a very useful tool. I think it will be very helpful when doing research for our projects. I really liked how there is a lot of different options to narrow down your search. After playing around with it a little bit I can see how it would be useful to find specific things that I could be looking for. The database also seemed very large. There is a lot of information that can be found in it.
I am some what familiar with this search database. I used it in high school while taking College Reading and Writing. We had to do a research project similar to this one. It was a few years ago though so I don't remember much about it. Back then I used Academic Search Premier to find scholarly journals. I don't think I have used any other database for research that I can recall.
When thinking about how to use this database for research I do have some concerns. It can be very difficult to sift throught articles to find specific information I may want. Hopefully I can learn how to narrow down my searches to target more specific information. Also, a lot of scholarly journal articles can be very long which can make it difficult to find certain information I may be looking for. To resolve this issue I will just make sure I skim the article before reading it and I will try to determine if it contains what I am looking for.
Hi Shana,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your post on Academic Search Premier. It sounds as if you have some experience with this database.
We will be talking about database search strategies today in class...think about search strings!
Also, what is the nice thing that scholarly journal articles have which will help you determine whether or not the article will be useful for your research?
Sincerely,
Professor Wexelbaum
Scholary journal articles always have an abstract. I forgot about that for a second. An abstract is very helpful when determining if the article has the information you need.
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