CDFS 314 The Older Child: CDFS 314

Study Spaces

• 6 floors, group and quiet study areas, café, iSpace

Librarians

• Research Desk - 1st Floor
• Chat and email

Research Guides

• Link through Home Page/ Research Guides/
• Children's Literature Guide
• YA Literature Guide

CANVAS Check out the Library Course and Library Tools

Articles

• Article and other databases - search for academic research

Books/eBooks

• OneSearch catalog
• Check out books on the 1st floor by the front door with your ID
• Or via a locker system out front:
  • request the book in OneSearch,
  • you will get an email when it is ready,
  • limit 5 book requests at one time
  • Check out for 16 weeks, up to 50 at a time

Choose a topic then think about what words will show up in articles about that topic

E.g. How do iPhones affect teens?

• Keywords could be:
  • iphone; teens
• Similar terms: OR for more
  • Teens OR Adolescents; iPhone OR android 
• Broader terms:
  • smart phones; smartphones; screen time; screentime
• Narrowing terms: AND for less
  • schools; united states

E.g. How does banning books affect teens?

• Keywords could be:
  • banning; books; teens
• Similar terms: OR for more
  • Adolescents; ban; banned; challenge
• Broader terms:
  • ban OR challenge
• Narrowing terms: AND for less
  • schools; libraries; laws

You can use OneSearch's Newspapers Search to get access to millions of reputable newspaper articles.

Go to Advanced Search.

At the very top of the page click Newspapers Search.

Put your keywords in the search box. (e.g. "public schools income")

On the left side:

Limit your results to 2024

You can also select a specific newspaper (e.g. New York Times) under Journal Title

You will find a link to the full text in the articles' record.

Also called academic articles, or peer reviewed articles. These are reports on research that have been reviewed by other people in the same field.

Use Databases to find articles on your topic.

• General Databases: OneSearch, Google Scholar, Academic Search Complete
• Topic Specific Databases: PsycInfo, ERIC, SocIndex

Use your keywords to get a list of results

Change keywords to find different results, more, or less

Use Limiters to refine your results

Access Full Text within the database or using GetitAtCSULB (can be made available in Google Scholar using Library Links)

With podcasts you need to be careful of the source's validity. 

Is it presented by someone with experience and research in the field? 

Is it a non-biased publication? 

Be sure to check the date.

Use Google to find podcasts.

We all tend to live in our own bubbles these days, where our information sources echo back to us what we already know and are biased towards (Think For You page). 

Some resources are significantly more biased than others and can feed into skewed views of the world.

Reliability of sources is also very important.  Is the information presented true?

Here is a tool to help you find out about sources you may be accessing.

Newspaper articles:

Carey, B. (2019, March 22). Can we get better at forgetting? The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/22/health/memory-forgetting-psychology.html

Harlan, C. (2013, April 2). North Korea vows to restart shuttered nuclear reactor that can make bomb-grade plutonium. The Washington Post, A1, A4.

Stobbe, M. (2020, January 8). Cancer death rate in U.S. sees largest one-year drop ever. Chicago Tribune.

Journal Article:

Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185

Podcasts:

Meraji, S. M., & Demby, G. (Hosts). (2016–present). Code switch [Audio podcast]. National Public Radio. https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch

Seales, A. (Host). (2018–present). Small doses with Amanda Seales [Audio podcast]. Starburns Audio.

AI resources are quickly becoming a daily part of our lives.  A few things to think about when deciding to use AI for academic purposes.

Yes it can be very easy to create things, but keep in mind:

AI can "hallucinate" where it makes up information by mashing stuff out there together.  Specifically, ChatGPT will create citations, but they are not real things, just titles, journal titles, random page numbers and dates.  Also, specific facts and numbers tend to be incorrect in this same way.  Using AI to research facts does not work. You should consider that what it creates is realistic fiction.

That said, it can work fantastically as a starting point, for example creating an outline.  It can also summarize large amounts of text fairly well.