This week you are taking a look at periodical databases. These are databases in which you can locate articles that appear in scholarly journals and in popular magazines (both referred to as periodical articles). You are asked to complete two assignments, one to locate scholarly articles, the other to locate popular magazines articles. Pay attention to the difference in your evaluation. This kind of information resource is VERY different from information in books. Articles appearing in journals and magazines are generally very current unlike information located in books
Use one or more subscription databases (MCTC databases or public library databases). You are welcome to use a periodical databases OTHER than Academic Search Premier (the suggested database). If you have, for example, a "health" topic, you may want to select of MCTC's health databases. JUST MAKE SURE IT S A PERIODICAL DATABASE AND NOT CQ RESEARCHER.
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Thank Jane
In assignments 4, I ma trying to find the published type with my article that I found in database (Academic Search Premier) in the database there is check box that give you option the of Publication Type as following
Publication Typ
All
Periodical
Newspaper
Book
I check as (Periodical)
I am just wondering if I did something that limit my result of getting the publisher
In addition, some of article have two authors, do you need both author information or is ok if we provide one authors’ information?
Please advise
Your help is appreciated.
Academic Search Premier is for the most part a collection of periodical articles. To make sure you can check the periodical option. Avoid newspapers and book chapters.
Why would you want to limit by publisher? Unless you do have a particular publisher in mind. But still this is not an option.
Also the MLA does provide an example of citing a resource with 2 or more authors-yes you need both.
Thanks for reply
Basically, I wasn’t limit the type of publish but I couldn’t find information off the publisher in article that is why I though I was doing some thing wrong. Now, I found the information I was looking for and I will submitted both assignment on Saturday.
I found the search for a magazine article quite difficult. I made numerous attempts, trying different databases and ended up back on Academic Search Premier, to locate a magazine other than a scholarly journal. I resorted to limiting my search by randomly trying magazine titles in the publication box! Fortunately I did find a perfect article, and I believe my difficulty was due to my subject matter. Compared to the magazine search the newspaper search was a breeze!
in re Sandy's post:
i didn't have trouble with the magazine searches, but Academic Search Premier was not friendly to me as far as providing RELEVANT scholarly, full text periodicals are concerned. I'm still not sure if i wasn't being clear enough with my Booleans (nonetheless i spent a lot of time limiting my searches by using the databases controlled vocabulary, date currency, etc.) or if i should have just tweaked my research questions in order to conform to some of the articles that required less digging...in any case, i developed a serious disliking for Academic Search Premier...there's TOO MUCH information, too many articles. OVERLOAD. for some reason it doesn't seem well organized. As Badke said, they're black holes.
ProQuest, on the other hand, was a delight. i had no problem finding applicable news articles. so..."lose some, win some" is the credo of the day i guess.
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