Database tutorials- Assist you with Research
- Academic Search Premier- Ebscohost Advanced Searching TutorialRemember 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 KeywordsThis tutorial from Mohave Community College helps you with defining a research question and pulling key concepts to search within the database.
- Citing ArticlesThis 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 VideoThe 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 ArticlesThis video will assist you with understanding Scholarly articles from Popular articles.
- Quick Tips and Tricks to Searching DatabasesFrom 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.
- Research CompanionThese video tutorials will help you understand the key elements of the research process with short videos divided into three categories: Find Information, Evaluate Information, and Use Information.
As all other databases you will need to log in using your BSU Username and Password.
Plagiarism
- Plagiarism MaxguideThis 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 windowMulti-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 windowIncorporates 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 windowIncludes approximately 440 journals covering topics in gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new windowFull 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.
Literature Review
University of Arizona- Writing a Literature Review
Sample Literature Review- Check it out, to understand literature reviews better.
