Finding Newspapers and Magazines at Mt. SAC

This video will show you how to find newspapers and magazines in the Mt. SAC library databases. The first thing we'll do is go to mtsac.edu slash library and that will bring us to this page, the library homepage. Once at this page, you will click on the databases button and that will bring us to an alphabetical listing of all the databases. At the time of this video being recorded. 140 databases are found. We're going to use one database click that will allow us to search multiple databases at the same time. We're going to choose the letter E and find where it says EBSCO multiple databases. So we'll be searching more than 29 databases in one swoop as opposed to going into different databases one at a time. This is going to save us time and make our search strategy much more efficient. So let's click on multiple databases for EBSCO. If you are off campus, it will ask you to sign in using your same credentials that you would log into your Canvas or student email. And once we're in, we will see that we're being asked within EBSCO which database we want to use, and we're going to click on, because these are all EBSCO databases, The first thing we're going to do is we're going to hit select all. So now we are searching all of the EBSCO databases at once and then we'll hit continue. So this will be the screen where we will be searching but I want to point out a few more things before we begin searching. You'll notice it says that we're searching academic search complete and it says show all. Because we selected all the EBSCO databases, we'll be searching all of these at the same time. I want to make it a little more clear by clicking this button and showing you on this screen all of the different databases that we're going to be searching all at once. So let's go back to the main page where we're at when we started searching all the EBSCO databases. And the first thing we're going to do before we type in. anything into the search bar is we're going to start with preferences up at the top. This is extremely important that you start here because it will change the nature of your research. Once you hit preferences, you're going to go in and scroll all the way down to where it says default format because right now for all of your articles, if you were to send them, they would be in the citation format of Brazilian National Standard. I want you to change that from Brazilian National Standard to MLA and when you click that then hit save. This will make sure that every time you send yourself an article it will be in MLA format for the citation. Failure to go to preferences and select MLA will mean that every time you send yourself an article it will default to Brazilian National Standard which will make it very difficult for you to complete your MLA Works Cited page when you turn in your speech. And before we start typing in our specific topic, the next thing we're going to do is scroll down the page and we're going to change our publication date range. If we choose nothing, it will default to probably decades worth of material, some of which will be useless because it's too old for you to use in your speech. The rule for this class will be the last six full years, so at the time of recording this video, It is 2023 that the class will be starting in. So that means you'll have all of 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, and 17, which means you would put in 2017 to 2023. You can leave the months blank and just put in the years, but for future students using these videos, these dates will change. because you were able to use the last six full complete years. So don't count the year that you're in. Use the last full six ones to determine that. So in the case of 2023, if it was September of 23, it would still be okay because 2017, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22 are the full six years. plus the remainder of the 2023 year. So the last six full years from the date that you're researching. We have put in our date range. We have put in our preferences for MLA. Now we're going to go in and type in our topic. It is extremely important that you type in your topic correctly and make sure that you're spelling it using the correct spelling. I'm going to show you an obstacle that might happen for some people if they choose the wrong spelling of their topic. So sometimes people confuse the spelling of the word Colosseum. They will spell it c-o-l-i-s-e-u-m, which is the correct term for Colosseum, but not the Roman Colosseum. A Colosseum is an amphitheater, so if we use this term and we click search, the results that we get for these articles will be 9,000 articles come up, but this is not the Roman Colosseum that we're searching for. So you would say, oh wow, I have a lot of articles, but then realize you're not searching the right thing. If we were to change it to the correct spelling of the Colosseum, we would find not 9,000 articles, but 1,469, and all of these will be on the Roman Colosseum. So let's start with this as a sample topic. So if we were to start with this and our topic was the Roman Colosseum, we typed in Colosseum, we find that there's 1,469 articles. There's a few things that I want you to do. The first of which is to narrow down the articles to newspapers and magazines, because right now we're going to be getting newspapers, magazines, and sometimes academic journals, which would be less likely to be helpful for your research. They will be written in. as an academic journal for people who are in academia studying that particular context of the topic. So you might get an architectural journal written for architects to read as opposed to a common article in a newspaper or magazine which is much more easy for you to read. As you scan the articles you will see it says periodical and has an icon to the left of the information for the article. These have periodical as well. And as you scroll through, you'll see there's change to things like news icons. So a periodical is a magazine. A news icon reflects a newspaper. And you will possibly find things such as reference, which are encyclopedias. In some cases, you'll see this icon here, Academic Journal. So how do we get rid of the academic journals and focus just on newspapers and magazines? After we get our search results from typing in our topic and seeing the search results listed, scroll down and go to the left hand side of the screen and you will see that there are newspapers, magazines, journals, books, trade publications, all of them listed separately. You're able to narrow down your search results by clicking on these and focusing just on the ones that you want. So instead of looking at 1900 articles, which include many things that we do not want, we are going to click on newspapers, news. It will narrow those results down. We're down to 915 and we're also going to put in magazines. So now we're only going to be looking at articles that we actually want, newspapers and magazines. So let's look at some of the results that we get. We now have a total of 1,136 articles, and there is no way that we will be looking at all of these articles. So now it's time to be savvy and start narrowing down the field for what things we actually want. But because we don't know much about the Colosseum at this point, it's important to say what's in the news about the Colosseum, and that means scrolling through some of these search results to see what pops up that we might not know about. Now you can't possibly scroll through 1136 article titles to see if you want the articles. So what we're going to do is we're going to start narrowing down these newspapers and magazine articles by a few tricks. The first trick I want you to learn is to read the title of the article and ask yourself is there something here that jumps out at you or is there information in the title that makes you think it's a good article? So your first trick is to scan the article title and determine whether or not you should read it or skip it. So if you want this particular article based on the title, let's read the title. Rome's ancient Colosseum gets $79 billion price tag at Deloitte. So my first thought reading this article is it's a good statistic. I feel like they're evaluating the price of the Colosseum and seeing how much it's worth. So I would go in and look at this article. to learn more and probably take the article if it's good. A second trick that you can use is to put your cursor to the right of the title. There's an icon that has a magnifying glass. When you hover over that magnifying glass without even clicking it, the article title and abstract comes up. A quick way to determine whether or not you want this article besides looking at the title is to just read the abstract. We find that my hunch was correct, that the value to the Colosseum is around $79 billion, and it even goes on further saying that about $1.4 billion of Italy's gross domestic product every year can be attributed to the Colosseum. So this article seems like a winner. What will we do now that we want it? Well, we've used our two options, our two tricks to figure out if we wanted it in the first place, to repeat those first trick. look at the titles and see if it sounds like it's something worth investigating. If it doesn't, skip it because we have 1,136 articles. And if we want to be more thorough, a second trick could be for each article, which would be more time consuming, is to go through and scan the abstract of each article. I say the first trick is to scan the title first because it will take a lot of time to go through and read all of these abstracts. Use your gut when you look at the article to see whether or not it seems like it's a good article. So our first instinct was correct after we read the abstract. We wouldn't have gotten there because having read the title, I would have clicked on it. I would be able to read the abstract a little bit more here and say, yes, I want it. And then you have the article. So the article is below underneath. So it gives some information about what we were just seeing about the valuation of the Colosseum. It's worth to Italy. and a little bit more about the process of how the valuation occurred. So let's say I want this article. I will scroll up and look at my options over on the right-hand side. Look for the email icon, and when you click the email icon, a window will appear within our article, and it will ask us to email the article. It will give us an option to email it to and then email address. Put whatever email address you feel more comfortable with, whether it's your Mt. SAC student email or your personal email. But make sure you keep all of those articles because we're going to be using them throughout the several weeks of the class. So you want good access to them. So if you have a personal email that has lots of junk in it, I've maybe forward send them to your student email so that they can stay nice and tidy and not be bothered. So one trick that a lot of students have told me is sometimes they say, hey, Mr. Reynolds, my articles didn't come in. I don't know where they went. Sometimes that's because the address where the email is coming from is the library at Mt. SAC. You can change this to your email address as well. So if you put your email address in the from and the to, it will send them from the library using your email address to your email address. and bypass the step of it not knowing where they came from. So the trick here being if you put your own email address, your own email knows where it's coming from, so you will not have them sent to your spam folder. Few students have complained about this, but if you find that you're not getting some of the articles that you're sending, this is probably the reason why. Simply look in your spam folder and you'll probably find those articles rather quickly. So one trick that I tell students to make sure they're getting all their articles is while we're doing our research right now, open up another tab and have our email address open so that we can periodically check to make sure that our articles are coming through while we're doing our research. So you're going to put in your email address. You will see that the format has already been changed to MLA citation as a default, because we did that at the very beginning when we changed our preferences. That is why changing preferences is the first thing you should do when you go into EBSCO, because it is likely that in the thrill of the research you will be putting in your email address and then hitting send, ignoring this information and causing yourself headaches and woes because you now have to figure out how to translate Brazilian National Standard into MLA for your works cited page. So don't change any of this other information here. You're going to get the entire full article. And when you send it to yourself and you hit send, it will give you confirmation that the article has been sent. You will then be staring at the page that you were reading and that you sent yourself via email. And you can go back to your results list by clicking here or clicking up at the top of your Internet browser to go back. Now another thing I want to point out is some articles are going to say HTML full text, some will say HTML full text and PDF full text, others will simply just have a PDF listed, such as this one right here. If you ever open up one of your articles and wonder where the article is, it's probably hidden as a PDF and here's the way to find it. So if you click this article because the topic seemed interesting to you from the title and the next page it pops up, and you read the abstract but you're wondering since we're at the bottom of the page you can't find the article look up at the top left and you'll see it is a pdf article meaning it will not come out as full text written on the screen it will come out as the entire article as it appeared within the magazine or newspaper so if we wanted this article we would go over to the email our article function over here and do the same thing that we just did with the last article. As a reminder, we're still looking at this first page of 1 through 50, just scanning the titles and saying, do we want these particular articles based on our methods of scanning the title or, if more interested, hovering over the icon to allow us to examine the abstract. I would skip the digital coliseum because it just doesn't seem like it's telling me something that I want. Lightbox I would skip. for the same reason. News review, I would skip. We'll be able to find a lot of things later. History online, now I'm interested because I was thinking my main point might be history. 2019 dates announced for Mariah Carey, so she's going to be at the Coliseum at Caesar's Palace, so this is in Las Vegas. Certainly don't want this article because, again, it's sharing the same word that we're looking for, the Roman Coliseum, with the Coliseum in Las Vegas. So heights of landmark open to public. So that sounds interesting to me. So you can see how reading these articles will be helpful just by scanning the topics. So what do we do after we get to the bottom of the page? We found maybe five or so, six or so articles that sounded really intriguing. We get to the bottom. We face now we've gone through 50 articles. We only have a few. we're not sure that they meet all of our research needs. Well, that's why we did this, just to get some general information about our topic quickly after having seen just the major results that pop up for our topic. Now comes the strategic part of your research. So right now, you probably do not have all the articles that you need for your speech because we haven't really explored the main points that you were considering within your speech. And sometimes you walk into the speech process not knowing what your main points are and hoping that these articles will tell you. So if right now we have some ideas and some guesses and we want to learn more, we're going to use a search tool that is called a Boolean search term. So you can see on the screen I've written the word B-O-O-L-E-A-N. That is a library term, which is a useful strategy to narrow down articles. One Boolean search term is the word and. So if we put in the word and and we put in gladiators, what will happen now is the library databases will look for articles that contain the words Coliseum and. So what we're looking for here is articles that are only about gladiators. So that will take our 1136 articles down a notch because we're only going to be looking for ones that have the word gladiators in them. So let's hit search and see our results. We've now gone down to one hundred and seventy articles about gladiators. the Colosseum and gladiators. This is fantastic because if we had an idea for a main point on gladiators, now we're only going to be looking at particular articles referencing that material. So you can see this article we saw before, but we see new articles that we hadn't seen before because they were buried within those 1,000 articles that we had in the previous results. Thumbs up for the return of Coliseum gladiators. So this article title screams to me that maybe they're going to bring back gladiator fights for the Roman Coliseum. Coliseum a hit with Michigan's gladiators. I'm going to skip that one because it deals with Michigan. Live at the Coliseum. I did notice I see reference here, and it reminds me that I missed a step in my research. So if you go over to the left hand side, you're going to notice because we started a new search, we added a new search term and gladiators. Every time we do a new search, it's going to change the results. So I'm going to change newspapers again and magazines so that now we only have 152 articles. to be searching for newspapers and magazines. That gets rid of trade publications, books, and other things. So you'll do the same process as before. When you find a particular article and you want it, you click on the link to the title of the article, scroll and scan to see if this article is something that's good for you. You probably won't read the whole article. You'll probably scan it more so. And then you will email it to yourself. My tip off that we needed to change the newspaper and magazine button was because I saw this icon for reference. Reference means an encyclopedia. So in this case, it's Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia. You'll also find that they have Columbia Encyclopedia as well. Those are the two encyclopedias that might pop up. during your research in EBSCO. Here is the other one, Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, as noted with reference icon. So during your research you will spend a lot of time figuring out what are other words to pair with your topic because it will probably be very impossible to search just looking at your topic and looking at maybe 1,000 possible articles. However, there are some topics that are going to be more challenging. While the Colosseum is larger and gives us much more, we did gladiators, we could put in renovation, we could talk about tourism. These are all words that can narrow down that 1,100 and some articles that we know is the most that we're going to get because that is our particular topic when we type it in. We have 11 here on tourism. Remember, the first time you enter your search term. So in this case, Colosseum, there will be no more than 1,469 articles. But in terms of newspapers and magazines, once you click those two boxes, newspapers and magazines, you will see that number dwindle. This will be the most number of articles you will have at your disposal. So if you find yourself with a topic that is very small and don't have a lot of articles, When it says this is the total number, you'll have to be more strategic in your research because that's the smallest amount of research that you're going to get is the only research that you're going to get. Let me give you an article, a topic on a small structure, actually a large structure, but a smaller topic in Ireland called Newgrange. You'll see here that there are only 98 articles in the entire library databases using newspapers and magazines. Let's scroll down. We get 64 newspapers and 12 magazines. That number is going to drop a little bit more. So our topic now is down to 44 because exact duplicates have been removed. Now 44 is a lot of articles. It's certainly less than 1,000 articles that we saw for the Colosseum. However, you have now less opportunity to be picky about getting rid of articles. So you'll have to explore some articles maybe a little bit more thoroughly than others. So this one here, Newgrange dig to reveal more ancient secrets. So that clearly sounds like our topic and they're excavating the area around Newgrange. Hot Spell reveals more secrets at Newgrange Tomb. Newgrange is going global. Ireland, land of myth and legend. So a lot of these sound really good and like they'll give us a lot of research. Now for a topic where only 44 articles are here, it would seem less to make sense that we put in something like AND and provide other words because we can simply just read the articles or the titles to figure out whether or not these are good articles for us. So putting random words up here and getting one or two search results will be less effective than simply reading the titles for all 44 articles that we have here for Newgrange. Let's change topics one more time. So these Svalbard Seed Vault, we get 36 articles. So again, another smaller topic, but still we'll have this. Plus we have all of our encyclopedias that we could be using. So finding five sources should not be a problem for most topics. However, sometimes you'll find a topic that you think you really want to do. You'll put it into the databases here. and you may only get five or six articles total. So that is going to be the key to your research, making sure that there's enough research with enough variety of things in the research to provide you with your five sources for the speech. This World Seed Vault is coming up, and we get a lot of really good article titles here. So far, all of these, I would say I would want to investigate because they sound fantastic, because I know that it is a secure spot where they are storing seeds for a global apocalypse. So all of these terms, doomsday vault, seed security, are things that, in my mind, knowing this topic, I'd say, yes, definitely I want these particular articles. So over on the left-hand side, we'll see that there's 48 magazines and 7 news. which should equal 55, but again because there are duplicates across the different databases, it's narrowing them down. We're left with 23 particular articles here. So let's recap. Again, we are going to start at the library homepage. We are clicking the Databases link. We are choosing E for EBSCO and we're choosing EBSCO Multiple Databases. We are then going to hit select all because we'll be selecting all of the EBSCO databases. They've outlined them here alphabetically again, but these are the 30 different databases that we are wanting. So we hit select all, we hit continue, we go up to preferences, we change our citation format from Brazilian National Standard to MLA. We have to hit save because if we don't, it will revert back to Brazilian National Standard. We hit save. We go back down. We enter in the last six full years plus whatever year we are currently in. So that means 2000 at the time of this video 2017 to 2023. So that's six full years plus a little bit of 23. We go up and we type in our topic. Tower and we see 2257 articles. We already know with reference we have an academic journals. We want to narrow that down with newspapers and magazines about 1800 articles total. So we have 1800 articles. We're certainly not reading all these. Again, we scroll through the articles using our tricks. Number one, look at the title to see if it sounds interesting. If it is, we go into it and we read a little bit of the article. We send that email to ourselves with the article if we like it. Or we can use trick number two, which is to hover over this icon and read a little bit about the And our final reminder is after doing this first page of finding the most prominent things that jump out from our particular topic, as we scroll down just the first page, not moving past the first page, then we add in things such as a Boolean search term, the word AND, A-N-D in caps, and the words that we want to research a little bit more, maybe in this case tourism, and that takes us down to 50. If we change it to restaurant, we will get different results, in this case 131. But again, because we changed the result up at the top, what we're looking for, remember hit news, hit magazines, it will get rid of those items that we don't want. Newspapers and magazines are easily read. They're contemporary. They provide a wide range of insight into a topic versus encyclopedias, which we can get a lot of in Gale eBooks and Britannica. And it's also better to have newspapers and magazines than academic journals because they're written for a different group of people. Usually academic journals are written for a more highbrow academic lens to a particular group of people. And for this purpose, our class. We want to focus on newspapers and magazines.

We're going to use one database click that will allow us to search multiple databases at the same time. We're going to choose the letter E and find where it says EBSCO multiple databases. So we'll be searching more than 29 databases in one swoop as opposed to going into different databases one at a time.

This is going to save us time and make our search strategy much more efficient. So let's click on multiple databases for EBSCO. If you are off campus, it will ask you to sign in using your same credentials that you would log into your Canvas or student email. And once we're in, we will see that we're being asked within EBSCO which database we want to use, and we're going to click on, because these are all EBSCO databases, The first thing we're going to do is we're going to hit select all.

So now we are searching all of the EBSCO databases at once and then we'll hit continue. So this will be the screen where we will be searching but I want to point out a few more things before we begin searching. You'll notice it says that we're searching academic search complete and it says show all. Because we selected all the EBSCO databases, we'll be searching all of these at the same time.

I want to make it a little more clear by clicking this button and showing you on this screen all of the different databases that we're going to be searching all at once. So let's go back to the main page where we're at when we started searching all the EBSCO databases. And the first thing we're going to do before we type in.

anything into the search bar is we're going to start with preferences up at the top. This is extremely important that you start here because it will change the nature of your research. Once you hit preferences, you're going to go in and scroll all the way down to where it says default format because right now for all of your articles, if you were to send them, they would be in the citation format of Brazilian National Standard. I want you to change that from Brazilian National Standard to MLA and when you click that then hit save. This will make sure that every time you send yourself an article it will be in MLA format for the citation.

Failure to go to preferences and select MLA will mean that every time you send yourself an article it will default to Brazilian National Standard which will make it very difficult for you to complete your MLA Works Cited page when you turn in your speech. And before we start typing in our specific topic, the next thing we're going to do is scroll down the page and we're going to change our publication date range. If we choose nothing, it will default to probably decades worth of material, some of which will be useless because it's too old for you to use in your speech. The rule for this class will be the last six full years, so at the time of recording this video, It is 2023 that the class will be starting in.

So that means you'll have all of 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, and 17, which means you would put in 2017 to 2023. You can leave the months blank and just put in the years, but for future students using these videos, these dates will change. because you were able to use the last six full complete years. So don't count the year that you're in.

Use the last full six ones to determine that. So in the case of 2023, if it was September of 23, it would still be okay because 2017, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22 are the full six years. plus the remainder of the 2023 year.

So the last six full years from the date that you're researching. We have put in our date range. We have put in our preferences for MLA.

Now we're going to go in and type in our topic. It is extremely important that you type in your topic correctly and make sure that you're spelling it using the correct spelling. I'm going to show you an obstacle that might happen for some people if they choose the wrong spelling of their topic. So sometimes people confuse the spelling of the word Colosseum.

They will spell it c-o-l-i-s-e-u-m, which is the correct term for Colosseum, but not the Roman Colosseum. A Colosseum is an amphitheater, so if we use this term and we click search, the results that we get for these articles will be 9,000 articles come up, but this is not the Roman Colosseum that we're searching for. So you would say, oh wow, I have a lot of articles, but then realize you're not searching the right thing.

If we were to change it to the correct spelling of the Colosseum, we would find not 9,000 articles, but 1,469, and all of these will be on the Roman Colosseum. So let's start with this as a sample topic. So if we were to start with this and our topic was the Roman Colosseum, we typed in Colosseum, we find that there's 1,469 articles. There's a few things that I want you to do.

The first of which is to narrow down the articles to newspapers and magazines, because right now we're going to be getting newspapers, magazines, and sometimes academic journals, which would be less likely to be helpful for your research. They will be written in. as an academic journal for people who are in academia studying that particular context of the topic.

So you might get an architectural journal written for architects to read as opposed to a common article in a newspaper or magazine which is much more easy for you to read. As you scan the articles you will see it says periodical and has an icon to the left of the information for the article. These have periodical as well.

And as you scroll through, you'll see there's change to things like news icons. So a periodical is a magazine. A news icon reflects a newspaper. And you will possibly find things such as reference, which are encyclopedias. In some cases, you'll see this icon here, Academic Journal.

So how do we get rid of the academic journals and focus just on newspapers and magazines? After we get our search results from typing in our topic and seeing the search results listed, scroll down and go to the left hand side of the screen and you will see that there are newspapers, magazines, journals, books, trade publications, all of them listed separately. You're able to narrow down your search results by clicking on these and focusing just on the ones that you want. So instead of looking at 1900 articles, which include many things that we do not want, we are going to click on newspapers, news.

It will narrow those results down. We're down to 915 and we're also going to put in magazines. So now we're only going to be looking at articles that we actually want, newspapers and magazines. So let's look at some of the results that we get.

We now have a total of 1,136 articles, and there is no way that we will be looking at all of these articles. So now it's time to be savvy and start narrowing down the field for what things we actually want. But because we don't know much about the Colosseum at this point, it's important to say what's in the news about the Colosseum, and that means scrolling through some of these search results to see what pops up that we might not know about. Now you can't possibly scroll through 1136 article titles to see if you want the articles. So what we're going to do is we're going to start narrowing down these newspapers and magazine articles by a few tricks.

The first trick I want you to learn is to read the title of the article and ask yourself is there something here that jumps out at you or is there information in the title that makes you think it's a good article? So your first trick is to scan the article title and determine whether or not you should read it or skip it. So if you want this particular article based on the title, let's read the title. Rome's ancient Colosseum gets $79 billion price tag at Deloitte. So my first thought reading this article is it's a good statistic.

I feel like they're evaluating the price of the Colosseum and seeing how much it's worth. So I would go in and look at this article. to learn more and probably take the article if it's good. A second trick that you can use is to put your cursor to the right of the title.

There's an icon that has a magnifying glass. When you hover over that magnifying glass without even clicking it, the article title and abstract comes up. A quick way to determine whether or not you want this article besides looking at the title is to just read the abstract. We find that my hunch was correct, that the value to the Colosseum is around $79 billion, and it even goes on further saying that about $1.4 billion of Italy's gross domestic product every year can be attributed to the Colosseum. So this article seems like a winner.

What will we do now that we want it? Well, we've used our two options, our two tricks to figure out if we wanted it in the first place, to repeat those first trick. look at the titles and see if it sounds like it's something worth investigating. If it doesn't, skip it because we have 1,136 articles. And if we want to be more thorough, a second trick could be for each article, which would be more time consuming, is to go through and scan the abstract of each article.

I say the first trick is to scan the title first because it will take a lot of time to go through and read all of these abstracts. Use your gut when you look at the article to see whether or not it seems like it's a good article. So our first instinct was correct after we read the abstract.

We wouldn't have gotten there because having read the title, I would have clicked on it. I would be able to read the abstract a little bit more here and say, yes, I want it. And then you have the article.

So the article is below underneath. So it gives some information about what we were just seeing about the valuation of the Colosseum. It's worth to Italy.

and a little bit more about the process of how the valuation occurred. So let's say I want this article. I will scroll up and look at my options over on the right-hand side.

Look for the email icon, and when you click the email icon, a window will appear within our article, and it will ask us to email the article. It will give us an option to email it to and then email address. Put whatever email address you feel more comfortable with, whether it's your Mt. SAC student email or your personal email.

But make sure you keep all of those articles because we're going to be using them throughout the several weeks of the class. So you want good access to them. So if you have a personal email that has lots of junk in it, I've maybe forward send them to your student email so that they can stay nice and tidy and not be bothered.

So one trick that a lot of students have told me is sometimes they say, hey, Mr. Reynolds, my articles didn't come in. I don't know where they went. Sometimes that's because the address where the email is coming from is the library at Mt. SAC.

You can change this to your email address as well. So if you put your email address in the from and the to, it will send them from the library using your email address to your email address. and bypass the step of it not knowing where they came from.

So the trick here being if you put your own email address, your own email knows where it's coming from, so you will not have them sent to your spam folder. Few students have complained about this, but if you find that you're not getting some of the articles that you're sending, this is probably the reason why. Simply look in your spam folder and you'll probably find those articles rather quickly. So one trick that I tell students to make sure they're getting all their articles is while we're doing our research right now, open up another tab and have our email address open so that we can periodically check to make sure that our articles are coming through while we're doing our research. So you're going to put in your email address.

You will see that the format has already been changed to MLA citation as a default, because we did that at the very beginning when we changed our preferences. That is why changing preferences is the first thing you should do when you go into EBSCO, because it is likely that in the thrill of the research you will be putting in your email address and then hitting send, ignoring this information and causing yourself headaches and woes because you now have to figure out how to translate Brazilian National Standard into MLA for your works cited page. So don't change any of this other information here. You're going to get the entire full article.

And when you send it to yourself and you hit send, it will give you confirmation that the article has been sent. You will then be staring at the page that you were reading and that you sent yourself via email. And you can go back to your results list by clicking here or clicking up at the top of your Internet browser to go back.

Now another thing I want to point out is some articles are going to say HTML full text, some will say HTML full text and PDF full text, others will simply just have a PDF listed, such as this one right here. If you ever open up one of your articles and wonder where the article is, it's probably hidden as a PDF and here's the way to find it. So if you click this article because the topic seemed interesting to you from the title and the next page it pops up, and you read the abstract but you're wondering since we're at the bottom of the page you can't find the article look up at the top left and you'll see it is a pdf article meaning it will not come out as full text written on the screen it will come out as the entire article as it appeared within the magazine or newspaper so if we wanted this article we would go over to the email our article function over here and do the same thing that we just did with the last article. As a reminder, we're still looking at this first page of 1 through 50, just scanning the titles and saying, do we want these particular articles based on our methods of scanning the title or, if more interested, hovering over the icon to allow us to examine the abstract.

I would skip the digital coliseum because it just doesn't seem like it's telling me something that I want. Lightbox I would skip. for the same reason.

News review, I would skip. We'll be able to find a lot of things later. History online, now I'm interested because I was thinking my main point might be history. 2019 dates announced for Mariah Carey, so she's going to be at the Coliseum at Caesar's Palace, so this is in Las Vegas.

Certainly don't want this article because, again, it's sharing the same word that we're looking for, the Roman Coliseum, with the Coliseum in Las Vegas. So heights of landmark open to public. So that sounds interesting to me.

So you can see how reading these articles will be helpful just by scanning the topics. So what do we do after we get to the bottom of the page? We found maybe five or so, six or so articles that sounded really intriguing. We get to the bottom. We face now we've gone through 50 articles.

We only have a few. we're not sure that they meet all of our research needs. Well, that's why we did this, just to get some general information about our topic quickly after having seen just the major results that pop up for our topic. Now comes the strategic part of your research.

So right now, you probably do not have all the articles that you need for your speech because we haven't really explored the main points that you were considering within your speech. And sometimes you walk into the speech process not knowing what your main points are and hoping that these articles will tell you. So if right now we have some ideas and some guesses and we want to learn more, we're going to use a search tool that is called a Boolean search term.

So you can see on the screen I've written the word B-O-O-L-E-A-N. That is a library term, which is a useful strategy to narrow down articles. One Boolean search term is the word and. So if we put in the word and and we put in gladiators, what will happen now is the library databases will look for articles that contain the words Coliseum and.

So what we're looking for here is articles that are only about gladiators. So that will take our 1136 articles down a notch because we're only going to be looking for ones that have the word gladiators in them. So let's hit search and see our results. We've now gone down to one hundred and seventy articles about gladiators. the Colosseum and gladiators.

This is fantastic because if we had an idea for a main point on gladiators, now we're only going to be looking at particular articles referencing that material. So you can see this article we saw before, but we see new articles that we hadn't seen before because they were buried within those 1,000 articles that we had in the previous results. Thumbs up for the return of Coliseum gladiators.

So this article title screams to me that maybe they're going to bring back gladiator fights for the Roman Coliseum. Coliseum a hit with Michigan's gladiators. I'm going to skip that one because it deals with Michigan.

Live at the Coliseum. I did notice I see reference here, and it reminds me that I missed a step in my research. So if you go over to the left hand side, you're going to notice because we started a new search, we added a new search term and gladiators. Every time we do a new search, it's going to change the results.

So I'm going to change newspapers again and magazines so that now we only have 152 articles. to be searching for newspapers and magazines. That gets rid of trade publications, books, and other things. So you'll do the same process as before. When you find a particular article and you want it, you click on the link to the title of the article, scroll and scan to see if this article is something that's good for you.

You probably won't read the whole article. You'll probably scan it more so. And then you will email it to yourself.

My tip off that we needed to change the newspaper and magazine button was because I saw this icon for reference. Reference means an encyclopedia. So in this case, it's Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia. You'll also find that they have Columbia Encyclopedia as well. Those are the two encyclopedias that might pop up.

during your research in EBSCO. Here is the other one, Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, as noted with reference icon. So during your research you will spend a lot of time figuring out what are other words to pair with your topic because it will probably be very impossible to search just looking at your topic and looking at maybe 1,000 possible articles.

However, there are some topics that are going to be more challenging. While the Colosseum is larger and gives us much more, we did gladiators, we could put in renovation, we could talk about tourism. These are all words that can narrow down that 1,100 and some articles that we know is the most that we're going to get because that is our particular topic when we type it in.

We have 11 here on tourism. Remember, the first time you enter your search term. So in this case, Colosseum, there will be no more than 1,469 articles.

But in terms of newspapers and magazines, once you click those two boxes, newspapers and magazines, you will see that number dwindle. This will be the most number of articles you will have at your disposal. So if you find yourself with a topic that is very small and don't have a lot of articles, When it says this is the total number, you'll have to be more strategic in your research because that's the smallest amount of research that you're going to get is the only research that you're going to get. Let me give you an article, a topic on a small structure, actually a large structure, but a smaller topic in Ireland called Newgrange. You'll see here that there are only 98 articles in the entire library databases using newspapers and magazines.

Let's scroll down. We get 64 newspapers and 12 magazines. That number is going to drop a little bit more.

So our topic now is down to 44 because exact duplicates have been removed. Now 44 is a lot of articles. It's certainly less than 1,000 articles that we saw for the Colosseum. However, you have now less opportunity to be picky about getting rid of articles. So you'll have to explore some articles maybe a little bit more thoroughly than others.

So this one here, Newgrange dig to reveal more ancient secrets. So that clearly sounds like our topic and they're excavating the area around Newgrange. Hot Spell reveals more secrets at Newgrange Tomb. Newgrange is going global. Ireland, land of myth and legend.

So a lot of these sound really good and like they'll give us a lot of research. Now for a topic where only 44 articles are here, it would seem less to make sense that we put in something like AND and provide other words because we can simply just read the articles or the titles to figure out whether or not these are good articles for us. So putting random words up here and getting one or two search results will be less effective than simply reading the titles for all 44 articles that we have here for Newgrange.

Let's change topics one more time. So these Svalbard Seed Vault, we get 36 articles. So again, another smaller topic, but still we'll have this.

Plus we have all of our encyclopedias that we could be using. So finding five sources should not be a problem for most topics. However, sometimes you'll find a topic that you think you really want to do. You'll put it into the databases here. and you may only get five or six articles total.

So that is going to be the key to your research, making sure that there's enough research with enough variety of things in the research to provide you with your five sources for the speech. This World Seed Vault is coming up, and we get a lot of really good article titles here. So far, all of these, I would say I would want to investigate because they sound fantastic, because I know that it is a secure spot where they are storing seeds for a global apocalypse.

So all of these terms, doomsday vault, seed security, are things that, in my mind, knowing this topic, I'd say, yes, definitely I want these particular articles. So over on the left-hand side, we'll see that there's 48 magazines and 7 news. which should equal 55, but again because there are duplicates across the different databases, it's narrowing them down.

We're left with 23 particular articles here. So let's recap. Again, we are going to start at the library homepage. We are clicking the Databases link. We are choosing E for EBSCO and we're choosing EBSCO Multiple Databases.

We are then going to hit select all because we'll be selecting all of the EBSCO databases. They've outlined them here alphabetically again, but these are the 30 different databases that we are wanting. So we hit select all, we hit continue, we go up to preferences, we change our citation format from Brazilian National Standard to MLA.

We have to hit save because if we don't, it will revert back to Brazilian National Standard. We hit save. We go back down.

We enter in the last six full years plus whatever year we are currently in. So that means 2000 at the time of this video 2017 to 2023. So that's six full years plus a little bit of 23. We go up and we type in our topic. Tower and we see 2257 articles.

We already know with reference we have an academic journals. We want to narrow that down with newspapers and magazines about 1800 articles total. So we have 1800 articles. We're certainly not reading all these.

Again, we scroll through the articles using our tricks. Number one, look at the title to see if it sounds interesting. If it is, we go into it and we read a little bit of the article. We send that email to ourselves with the article if we like it.

Or we can use trick number two, which is to hover over this icon and read a little bit about the And our final reminder is after doing this first page of finding the most prominent things that jump out from our particular topic, as we scroll down just the first page, not moving past the first page, then we add in things such as a Boolean search term, the word AND, A-N-D in caps, and the words that we want to research a little bit more, maybe in this case tourism, and that takes us down to 50. If we change it to restaurant, we will get different results, in this case 131. But again, because we changed the result up at the top, what we're looking for, remember hit news, hit magazines, it will get rid of those items that we don't want. Newspapers and magazines are easily read. They're contemporary.

They provide a wide range of insight into a topic versus encyclopedias, which we can get a lot of in Gale eBooks and Britannica. And it's also better to have newspapers and magazines than academic journals because they're written for a different group of people. Usually academic journals are written for a more highbrow academic lens to a particular group of people.

And for this purpose, our class. We want to focus on newspapers and magazines.

Transcript for:Finding Newspapers and Magazines at Mt. SAC

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Finding Newspapers and Magazines at Mt. SAC