ENGL225 - Al-wazedi

You'll be examining a health issue from various perspectives, beginning with the text you've read for class, moving into articles in newspapers and magazines, and finally, exploring some scientific literature. You'll write an extensive introduction synthesizing your findings, then describe each source with a detailed annotation to create your "Introduction & Annotated Bibliography."

Wikipedia!

Don't cite the text of Wikipedia itself, but a well-researched and thorough Wikipedia article is a treasure trove of links and references to other, more appropriate sources.

You'll need to be able to identify whether a source is a book, article, or website in order to try to find it.

If it's a(n):

• book: find it in ALiCat or I-Share via the library homepage
• article: find whether the library owns the publication by typing the publication title into the Journal, Magazine, & Newspaper Title Search (immediately below the Academic Search Complete link on the library homepage
• website: click the hyperlink and/or Google the article's title (use quotes!)

Academic Search Complete
This database will help you find sources both popular and scholarly. After you run your search, try the following:

When you get your results, use the links on the left to refine even further:

1. Click "Subject" or "Subject: Thesaurus Term" to narrow your search even more; clicking "show more" will take you to a screen where you can select subjects and combine them in a new, more refined search
2. Click the boxes next to the different options under "Source Types" to get either popular or scholarly sources (depending on which you need at that moment - you'll need both for the assignment!) 

Google News search

When you're not in school anymore, you'll be relying on Google to find reliable news. Google has an "Advanced Search" that lets you limit aspects of the results it shows you, including the currency, place of publication, and location of the keywords in the resulting articles.

1. To access Google Advanced Search, click on "Settings" in the lower-right, then "Advanced search"
2. Narrow by region (and language, if necessary)
3. After you run your search, then narrow your results by date; then you can use the "custom range" option to be very specific
4. Click "news" option to see only results from news sources

EBSCO databases for health topics

This link will take you to a short list of EBSCO databases appropriate for research in Biology. Resources include CINAHL Plus with Full-Text, Consumer Health Complete, Health Source: Consumer Edition, and Health Source: Nursing Edition. You will see a short description of each database, and you may choose to search only the database(s) that are most suitable to your research.

ScienceDirect COLLEGE EDITION

The Science Direct journal sets are comprised of 1800 journals with full text access beginning in 1995 through the current edition.The databases are searched simultaneously. To focus only on journals we can access, choose the top tab titled Journals and also change All Journals to Subscribed Journals in the Source search box.

In most cases, just because there's no full-text link right there, that doesn't mean you can't get the article, often right away! Here's how to get your hands on the full text of any article you find:

1. If there's a full-text link in the database you're in, just click on it!
2. If you don't see a full-text link, go to the library homepage and choose "Journal, Magazine, & Newspaper Title Search." Enter the journal's title to see if the full text is available somewhere else.
3. If Augustana doesn't own the article you're looking for, click on "Interlibrary Loan" from the options in the right sidebar of the homepage. It's free, and you'll usually get the article within 3-5 days.