LIBRARY FINAL EXAM EXERCISE (Exploring Human Geography articles)
For the Final Exam, you are to find ONE peer reviewed JOURNAL ARTICLE (NOT Book Reviews), published since 2004 on one of following topics: COMMUNITIES OR CITIZENSHIP OR TOURISM OR ACTIVISM OR HOUSING
The article must come from one of the following JOURNAL TITLES (not article titles, but journal names).
Do not use articles selected for your collaborative research project or for the class readings.
You will be searching multiple scholarly, geography related social science databases in the EBSCO search platform for the articles.
2. When this database opens, go to blue letters near top that reads CHOOSE DATABASES
3. Select the following DATABASES that have potential geography related interest, click OK when done:
4. Enter this search into the database search form exactly as you see below:
COMMUNIT* OR CITIZENSHIP OR TOURIS* OR HOUSING OR ACTIVIS*
5. Get only scholarly journal articles. At the lower left of the search screen, mark the box that reads SCHOLARLY (PEER REVIEWED) JOURNALS and select UPDATE.
6. Limit your results to one or more of these twelve geography journal titles
7. To limit your search to one of the journal titles above, enter a journal title into a search box. At the right of that box, look for the SELECT A FIELD and use the drop down box to select SOURCE (or it might say JOURNAL NAME). Be sure to put the journal title in quotation marks ("Social & Cultural Geography") to make sure the words are next to each other. Also be sure to use the & (instead of and).Your results will be limited to that specific journal title. Make sure to check you have the correct journal title when you open the article.
8. When you get your results, go to the left side of the screen and REFINE YOUR RESULTS to articles published AFTER 2004.
9. To look at the record, click on the blue title link for each record. Note the field labels to the left of each entry. If you see DOCUMENT TYPE ARTICLE you have a journal article. If it reads DOCUMENT TYPE REVIEW, you have a book review. Also check to see if there’s a link to SUBJECT TERMS BOOK--REVIEWS. Ignore the BOOK REVIEWS.
10. Your results must be an empirically based research article. Assess your results.
11. When you have your record open, look to the far right for a CITE link. It will tell you how to cite that item in your bibliography.
12. E-mail these results off to yourself for later reading, printing. Make sure to send in the correct citation style.
LIBRARY EXERCISE FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT LITERATURE REVIEW
You are asked to become familiar with Web of Science (which contains Social Science Citation Index search on a platform called Web of Knowledge).
See your professor's Canvas exercise to find the correct articles. For this exercise however we will work with this article to demonstrate how it works Web of Science works.
Below is an article we want to find. We will find who Alderman cited in his research and we will find who used Alderman's article in subsequent research.