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Database tutorials- Assist you with Research

Academic Search Premier- Ebscohost Advanced Searching Tutorial
Remember that you can not type "phrases," or "questions," in the search box. You have to use keywords and refine your topic using limiters within the database.
Academic Search Premier Database Searching with Keywords
This tutorial from Mohave Community College helps you with defining a research question and pulling key concepts to search within the database.
Citing Articles
This video tutorial will assist you in accessing different citation formats but you will need to check the Citation Bibliographic entries on this page https://library.bridgew.edu/research/citations
to check that you are citing appropriately.
Gale Topic Finder Video
The Gender Studies Collection database is a Gale database. This video can help you learn how to use the Gale database to expand and narrow your topic, to brainstorm keywords, and to find articles.

How to do Research?

Cornell Research Minutes: How to Identify Scholarly Journal Articles
This video will assist you with understanding Scholarly articles from Popular articles.
EBSCOhost Research Database Tutorials
On this page you will find tutorials to help you learn about the key features of EBSCO's many research interfaces and databases, including EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service, helping you get the most from your research.
Quick Tips and Tricks to Searching Databases
From Modern Librarian Memoirs- This video can help you search academic research databases more effectively. It discusses advanced searches, limiters, Boolean operators, citing from databases, and more.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism Maxguide
This Maxguide will assist you with understanding Plagiarism better.

Citing Sources

Be sure to check that your citations follow current APA guidelines through this link: APA Bibliographic Entries

Finding Books

Often books are an excellent source of information for certain topics in Communication Studies, a discipline that encompasses a variety of topics, ranging from the study of television and radio, to comic books, to effective communication and classic speeches, to the study of rhetoric. Try the library's online catalog to discover what books BSU owns.

Finding Articles-Use these Online Databases

Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Communication & Mass Media Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
Incorporates the content of CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index. More than 440 full-text journals, cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for 670 journals, and 5,500 author profiles.
Gender Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes approximately 440 journals covering topics in gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
The world's largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Includes nearly 4 million bibliographic records from more than 50 countries and indexing of more than 2,500 journals, 99% of which are peer-reviewed. Coverage dates back to the 17th and 18th centuries, with extensive coverage from the 1800s to the present. Produced by the American Psychological Association (APA) and updated weekly.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
Full text for more than 1,300 education journals, 540 books, and 2,300 education-related conference papers. Indexing and abstracts for more than 2,400 journals. Covers the areas of curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. Subjects include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text for more than 500 journals, covering a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences, and related disciplines. Subjects include anthropology, emotional and behavioral characteristics, mental processes, observational and experimental methods, and psychiatry and psychology.