Articles & Databases

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Let’s look at …

What is an academic journal?

What is an article? (popular vs scholarly articles)

What is a database?

Searching databases for article

What is a journal or a magazine?

What is a journal article?

So how would you find the information in a journal article ?

• Flick through different copies?

• Find an index for the copies?

• Use a database?

Britannica Online 1. Careful study and investigation for

the purpose of discovering and explaining new knowledge.

2.The collecting of information about a subject

Before you start What do I already know about the

topic?

Before you start

What do I already know about the topic?

What do I need to find out?

Before you start

What do I already know about the topic?

What do I need to find out?

Before you start

What do I already know about the topic?

What do I need to find out?

Before you start

What do I already know about the topic?

What do I need to find out?

This is a PDF copy of the same article titled “Hope for child camel jockeys”, from the journal Geographical, March, 2005.Page 6.

3 minute Group exercise Which terms can you describe?

Academic journalMagazineArticle databaseCitationAbstractFull textPDF articleHTML article

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Easier to use DATABASES are found under the “Foundations”

link

Some databases are easier to search in, and articles are

easier to read.

3 minute Group exercise Select ONE database you are interested in.

1. Can you find a FULL TEXT article?2. Can you find a PDF article?

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