WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.540 --> 00:00:08.670 Sarah Cisse: Hi everyone, welcome to Advanced Database Searching. My name is Sarah. 2 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:19.440 Sarah Cisse: If you could just type in the chat if you can hear me okay, and if you can see my screen. Okay, you can just type yes. 3 00:00:32.310 --> 00:00:33.630 Sarah Cisse: All right, great. 4 00:00:35.940 --> 00:00:42.600 Sarah Cisse: Okay, so today we're going to take a look at a particular database called Proquest Central, 5 00:00:44.160 --> 00:00:50.070 Sarah Cisse: and I'm going to do a sample search for you guys using multiple keywords, 6 00:00:51.090 --> 00:00:54.030 Sarah Cisse: along with something called Boolean Operators. 7 00:00:55.170 --> 00:01:15.630 Sarah Cisse: And then after we conduct that first search, I'll show you how to modify your search, and also how to use certain search tools to make your search a little bit more efficient. And then at the end of the session, I'll talk about our Ask a Librarian service. 8 00:01:17.790 --> 00:01:19.980 Sarah Cisse: Any questions before we get started? 9 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:27.630 Sarah Cisse: Alright, so 10 00:01:29.220 --> 00:01:35.670 Sarah Cisse: we're starting out at the library's main page, sherman.library.nova.edu. 11 00:01:37.590 --> 00:01:43.440 Sarah Cisse: And we just scroll down the page a little, on the right, you'll see Databases by Name. 12 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:47.520 Sarah Cisse: And I'm going to click on Databases by Name. 13 00:01:49.590 --> 00:01:52.710 Sarah Cisse: And I'm typing in the database I mentioned, Proquest Central. 14 00:01:56.520 --> 00:02:00.300 Sarah Cisse: And you see it pops up right below, Proquest Central. 15 00:02:01.860 --> 00:02:05.490 Sarah Cisse: And once I click on that, it takes me to our login page. 16 00:02:06.510 --> 00:02:21.840 Sarah Cisse: So, if you're NSU student, faculty or staff, you'll enter your Shark ID and your password in the blue box on the left. And then if you're a public card holder, in that green box, you'll type in your last name, and your library card number. 17 00:02:23.250 --> 00:02:25.380 Sarah Cisse: Okay, so I'm just going to go ahead and sign in. 18 00:02:34.920 --> 00:02:37.350 Sarah Cisse: It'll take me right into the database. 19 00:02:39.030 --> 00:02:41.460 Sarah Cisse: At the top left, you'll see Proquest Central. 20 00:02:43.650 --> 00:03:04.500 Sarah Cisse: And it takes us directly to the Advanced Search page. That's what we want. If we're going to conduct a search with multiple keywords, we need to be at the Advanced Search page so that we can have the ability to enter multiple search terms, along with 21 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:12.570 Sarah Cisse: Boolean Operators, I mentioned that earlier. Boolean Operators allow you to connect multiple keywords. 22 00:03:13.890 --> 00:03:25.050 Sarah Cisse: The database does provide you with your Boolean Operators. You don't have to use them. You can type them in yourself, but I'll show you how to do both. 23 00:03:26.460 --> 00:03:28.620 Sarah Cisse: The next thing I'm going to do is, Add a row. 24 00:03:29.820 --> 00:03:35.730 Sarah Cisse: I'm going to have three rows of keywords. So I need to add a row. 25 00:03:37.650 --> 00:03:41.910 Sarah Cisse: And in the top row I'm going to start out with teacher, 26 00:03:44.190 --> 00:03:45.600 Sarah Cisse: or instructor. 27 00:03:47.670 --> 00:03:48.120 Sarah Cisse: Okay. 28 00:03:49.860 --> 00:03:52.050 Sarah Cisse: And I'll explain why I used, or, 29 00:03:53.220 --> 00:03:54.090 Sarah Cisse: in just a moment. 30 00:03:55.710 --> 00:03:58.140 Sarah Cisse: And then I'm going to have students 31 00:03:59.610 --> 00:04:00.540 Sarah Cisse: on the second row. 32 00:04:02.250 --> 00:04:04.230 Sarah Cisse: And then finally, on the third row, 33 00:04:05.490 --> 00:04:07.080 Sarah Cisse: let's say instruction, 34 00:04:08.250 --> 00:04:09.390 Sarah Cisse: or pedagogy. 35 00:04:12.270 --> 00:04:12.600 Okay. 36 00:04:16.470 --> 00:04:24.540 Sarah Cisse: So we have our keywords, those are the main words to describe your topic. So just teacher, student, instruction. 37 00:04:26.340 --> 00:04:36.150 Sarah Cisse: And next to teacher I have instructor, and I have it connected by, or. So, or, is considered a Boolean Operator because it connects your keywords. 38 00:04:37.560 --> 00:04:50.310 Sarah Cisse: And then on the second row, you'll see that there's a little drop down menu, and it has a few of those Boolean Operators, and, or, not. 39 00:04:51.300 --> 00:05:03.930 Sarah Cisse: And I want, and, for my second Boolean operator, right, because I want to connect teacher or instructor, to students, and I'm doing that using, and. 40 00:05:06.180 --> 00:05:14.460 Sarah Cisse: And then for the third row. I have instruction or pedagogy. Again that or, connects instruction and pedagogy. 41 00:05:14.970 --> 00:05:23.550 Sarah Cisse: And the reason I'm using, or, in my first row, and this third row, is because I have synonyms. Teacher is synonymous with instructor, 42 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:40.560 Sarah Cisse: and instruction is synonymous with pedagogy. So any time you have synonyms, or related words, you can connect them with or, and that will allow you to find more resources with those similar terms. 43 00:05:41.880 --> 00:05:44.970 Sarah Cisse: All right, so over on the right hand side 44 00:05:46.830 --> 00:05:53.220 Sarah Cisse: I have some more drop down boxes, and you'll see that all of them say, Anywhere except full text. 45 00:05:55.110 --> 00:06:12.060 Sarah Cisse: And I'm going to choose Abstract for each of these. We have a bunch of different choices here, but I'm choosing Abstract because I want to find all of these keywords in the abstract of articles. So I'm choosing Abstract. 46 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:27.540 Sarah Cisse: And the reason I'm looking for those keywords in the abstract of articles is because usually when a word, a keyword, is included in an abstract, it means that it's pretty relevant to the main topic of the article. 47 00:06:29.910 --> 00:06:52.410 Sarah Cisse: So next I'm going to choose Peer reviewed. And peer reviewed, just as a reminder, means that the article has been reviewed by other scholars before it was published. So that lends a little bit of credibility, hopefully a lot of credibility, to the content in that article. 48 00:06:54.030 --> 00:07:07.680 Sarah Cisse: So we've done a few things so far. We've entered our keywords. We've used Boolean Operators to connect similar words. We've used, and, to connect words that are not related. 49 00:07:10.770 --> 00:07:28.470 Sarah Cisse: Not related, as in, they're not synonyms. And then we've chosen abstract, we've chosen peer reviewed. And we can also choose to limit by publication date, and I'm going to choose last three years. 50 00:07:31.020 --> 00:07:38.070 Sarah Cisse: And then below that, under Document type, I only want to see articles. So I'm going to select Article. 51 00:07:40.860 --> 00:07:43.440 Sarah Cisse: And then I'm going to click Search. 52 00:07:54.540 --> 00:07:57.240 Sarah Cisse: So here we have our results list. 53 00:07:58.350 --> 00:08:03.030 Sarah Cisse: We have almost 2,600 results. You can see that at the top left. 54 00:08:04.650 --> 00:08:06.180 Sarah Cisse: And you can also see 55 00:08:07.200 --> 00:08:08.250 Sarah Cisse: what we typed in. 56 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:24.660 Sarah Cisse: In that search box above, we limited to last three years. We wanted only articles, and we wanted peer reviewed. Over on the left, you can see that the selection we made on that first page shows up under Limit to. 57 00:08:26.730 --> 00:08:41.010 Sarah Cisse: And then you'll notice that the results are sorted by Relevance, which can be helpful. But if you wanted to sort by the most recent articles first, you can choose that. Most recent first, right here. 58 00:08:44.190 --> 00:08:50.160 Sarah Cisse: And looking down at some other choices. Let's wait for this page to reload. 59 00:08:53.310 --> 00:09:07.230 Sarah Cisse: You can also choose articles only from Scholarly Journals. And what that means is that those are journals that are published by academic institutions. So I'm going to click on Scholarly Journals. 60 00:09:13.860 --> 00:09:26.520 Sarah Cisse: And you can see that it didn't change our search results. You also see our date range in this chart, last three years 2017 to 2020. 61 00:09:27.990 --> 00:09:30.240 Sarah Cisse: Alright, so let's take a look at our results. 62 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:45.870 Sarah Cisse: You can see for each item, you have your title, the author, the name of the publication in bold, volume number, issue number, month and year, and page numbers. 63 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:55.740 Sarah Cisse: Where it says Show Abstract to the right of each article, you can take a look at the abstract, the summary, that is. 64 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:13.680 Sarah Cisse: And under this summary, you'll see the different main subjects of this article. And you can see this is highly relevant to the keywords that we typed in. And some of those keywords even show up in the subject listings 65 00:10:15.690 --> 00:10:17.850 Sarah Cisse: Now, if you wanted to take a look at this article, 66 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:24.900 Sarah Cisse: just under the title, you'll see a link that says Check for Full Text. I'm going to click on that, 67 00:10:31.980 --> 00:10:44.970 Sarah Cisse: and on the next page, the first link that you see says, Find this article in full text from JSTOR. JSTOR is the name of another one of our databases. So I'm clicking on that link. 68 00:10:46.290 --> 00:10:52.890 Sarah Cisse: And it should take me right into JSTOR. I shouldn't have to log in, because I logged in at the beginning, 69 00:10:54.030 --> 00:10:57.150 Sarah Cisse: when we were logging into Proquest Central. 70 00:11:00.900 --> 00:11:02.100 Sarah Cisse: And it's giving me a 71 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:09.030 Sarah Cisse: long list of results. It looks like it's not taking me directly to the article. So what I can do 72 00:11:12.090 --> 00:11:15.990 Sarah Cisse: is go back to our Full Text Finder page 73 00:11:17.070 --> 00:11:20.820 Sarah Cisse: and see if I can copy and paste the title 74 00:11:22.800 --> 00:11:36.600 Sarah Cisse: to find that article, now that we're in JSTOR. Now I'm going to put that in quotes, and hopefully that will help us find it. If we don't, we can go back to our results and take a look at another full text article. 75 00:11:40.170 --> 00:11:47.310 Sarah Cisse: Okay, so this looks like this is what we found in our initial Proquest Central results. 76 00:11:48.330 --> 00:12:02.820 Sarah Cisse: We're hopefully going to find the PDF in JSTOR. And over here on the right, it says download PDF. And you would just click on that to get to your PDF, and download that to your computer. 77 00:12:04.110 --> 00:12:04.590 Sarah Cisse: Okay. 78 00:12:05.880 --> 00:12:21.660 Sarah Cisse: Alright, so I'm going to close out of JSTOR. We were just in JSTOR so that we could get to the full article. I'm going to close out our Full Text Finder page. And here we are back in Proquest. 79 00:12:23.340 --> 00:12:25.260 Sarah Cisse: Okay, so 80 00:12:27.180 --> 00:12:39.090 Sarah Cisse: you'll notice that for most of these, it says Check for full text. Some of them do say Full Text PDF, which means that the full article is available in Proquest Central. 81 00:12:39.540 --> 00:13:00.090 Sarah Cisse: And then there's the Full Text HTML version. However, the PDF is usually the best version for you to use, simply because it's a scan of the original article and it includes things like page numbers, any graphs, any charts. 82 00:13:01.920 --> 00:13:18.150 Sarah Cisse: That would not be in the HTML version. The HTML version is simply one long block of text, and it's not going to include some of the features of the original article that we're looking at right now. So the PDF version is definitely 83 00:13:19.380 --> 00:13:22.800 Sarah Cisse: what you want to go with, when you have a choice. 84 00:13:23.970 --> 00:13:25.800 Sarah Cisse: Okay, 85 00:13:27.540 --> 00:13:34.260 Sarah Cisse: Other than that, as far as the PDF, you can definitely save that, download that to your computer. 86 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:37.050 Sarah Cisse: Alright. 87 00:13:39.810 --> 00:13:41.610 Sarah Cisse: So we've looked at a couple 88 00:13:42.750 --> 00:14:03.900 Sarah Cisse: PDFs of articles, and at this point I want to show you guys how to modify the search. We did the initial search, and we found some results, and maybe we've decided that we want to modify our search. So I'm clicking Modify search, at the top right. 89 00:14:07.980 --> 00:14:11.580 Sarah Cisse: And it takes us back to our Advanced Search page. 90 00:14:15.300 --> 00:14:18.120 Sarah Cisse: So we have a few tools that can help you 91 00:14:19.710 --> 00:14:21.180 Sarah Cisse: expand your search. 92 00:14:22.230 --> 00:14:26.190 Sarah Cisse: We have something called truncation, which is simply adding an asterisk 93 00:14:27.810 --> 00:14:29.520 Sarah Cisse: after certain words, 94 00:14:33.660 --> 00:14:44.370 Sarah Cisse: at the root of the word actually. If we add the asterisk after the letter R in teacher, that will find all variations of the root word. So you might find teacher, 95 00:14:44.940 --> 00:14:53.550 Sarah Cisse: teachers plural. And where I placed it in instruction, you may find articles talking about instruction, 96 00:14:54.000 --> 00:15:10.800 Sarah Cisse: instructor, instructors, instructional. So what the asterisk does, it helps you to find all variations of that root word. We can do the same thing with students. You'll find student singular, and student plural. 97 00:15:12.030 --> 00:15:15.960 Sarah Cisse: And we can also do that with instruction if we decided to. 98 00:15:18.270 --> 00:15:23.910 Sarah Cisse: And let's go ahead and click Search, and see how that changes our search results. 99 00:15:34.230 --> 00:15:40.920 Sarah Cisse: Okay, it looks like maybe we have a few more results. I don't think it's that different from what we had before. 100 00:15:45.870 --> 00:15:46.350 Sarah Cisse: Okay. 101 00:15:49.620 --> 00:16:00.540 Sarah Cisse: So you can see that everything we typed in originally is still there. We're looking for articles from the last three years. Again, it's sorted by most recent first, 102 00:16:01.740 --> 00:16:04.050 Sarah Cisse: and peer reviewed is still selected. 103 00:16:08.250 --> 00:16:11.220 Sarah Cisse: And you'll notice that we may have a little bit 104 00:16:12.300 --> 00:16:22.050 Sarah Cisse: different source types, right. I'm going to click on scholarly journals. Again, scholarly, meaning published by an academic institution. 105 00:16:24.570 --> 00:16:24.930 Right? 106 00:16:29.610 --> 00:16:43.140 Sarah Cisse: And document type. I want to make sure that I'm viewing all articles, so I can select Article, so that I can be sure that everything I'm looking at is a peer-reviewed, scholarly article. 107 00:16:47.130 --> 00:16:47.610 Sarah Cisse: Okay. 108 00:16:51.750 --> 00:16:58.440 Sarah Cisse: So again, you can first preview the article where it says Show Abstract. 109 00:16:59.700 --> 00:17:02.400 Sarah Cisse: You can check for the full text of the article. 110 00:17:04.350 --> 00:17:18.120 Sarah Cisse: I should mention that under each summary, you're going to see a list of the main subjects of each article. And that gives you an idea of whether you want to look at the full article. So you would go ahead and click on Check for full text. 111 00:17:23.100 --> 00:17:33.900 Sarah Cisse: And on this page it says the full text of it is available from Wiley, which is another one of our databases that hopefully has the full article. So I'm clicking on that link, 112 00:17:51.450 --> 00:17:56.490 Sarah Cisse: and hopefully it will take us directly to the full article. Yes, it did. Fantastic. 113 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:12.510 Sarah Cisse: Okay, so at the top, it tells you that the article is 14 pages long. We have a few features over at the top right. You can zoom in, you can search the document. 114 00:18:13.530 --> 00:18:22.230 Sarah Cisse: And it looks like you can possibly share the article. For anyone who's able to log in to view it, you can share the article. 115 00:18:23.850 --> 00:18:27.900 Sarah Cisse: And it looks like, over on the far right, we have a download button. 116 00:18:30.450 --> 00:18:38.280 Sarah Cisse: And as I mentioned before, the PDF of the article is definitely the one 117 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:45.000 Sarah Cisse: to use, because you're going to get your page numbers. Hang on, let me make sure this page is fully loaded. 118 00:18:48.750 --> 00:19:00.720 Sarah Cisse: And you can see that you have your page numbers, and of course, that's important for citing in your paper. You want to be able to say exactly which page you got your information from. 119 00:19:03.420 --> 00:19:03.780 Sarah Cisse: All right. 120 00:19:06.600 --> 00:19:16.260 Sarah Cisse: So any questions about searching for articles in Proquest Central using multiple keywords, 121 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:20.160 Sarah Cisse: using Boolean Operators, 122 00:19:21.930 --> 00:19:24.720 Sarah Cisse: or using truncation? 123 00:19:25.890 --> 00:19:32.460 Sarah Cisse: And again truncation is when you use the asterisk at the root of the word, to find all variations of that word. 124 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:40.860 Sarah Cisse: If you have any questions, go ahead and type that into the Chat Box. 125 00:19:52.350 --> 00:20:01.290 Sarah Cisse: Okay, it looks like we have no questions coming in. So what I'm going to do at this point is go back to the library's main page. 126 00:20:03.210 --> 00:20:07.320 Sarah Cisse: And I'm going to point out our Ask a Librarian service. 127 00:20:15.090 --> 00:20:20.160 Sarah Cisse: So on the library's main page, once it loads properly for us, 128 00:20:21.180 --> 00:20:25.500 Sarah Cisse: just scrolling down a little, over on the right, you'll see Ask a Librarian. 129 00:20:28.140 --> 00:20:41.760 Sarah Cisse: And if you just click on that, you'll see the hours of the Reference Desk, 10am to 7pm. Friday and Saturday, 10am to 6pm, and Sunday is actually 11am to 7pm. 130 00:20:43.230 --> 00:20:47.610 Sarah Cisse: You can call us during those hours, the number's right there. You can email us. 131 00:20:48.660 --> 00:20:55.380 Sarah Cisse: You just click on use our form, and fill that out. And we usually respond to you within a couple of hours. 132 00:20:56.610 --> 00:21:05.310 Sarah Cisse: If you wanted to chat live with us during those hours, you could do that too. There's the chat link. And we also have an appointment request form. 133 00:21:06.150 --> 00:21:17.580 Sarah Cisse: If you're working on an assignment or a paper, and you feel as if you're stuck, you're not able to find what you need to find in a database, or the catalog, or 134 00:21:18.360 --> 00:21:28.680 Sarah Cisse: you're running out of time, you can always request an appointment. Those are still using Zoom, at this time. All appointments are online using Zoom. 135 00:21:29.280 --> 00:21:40.830 Sarah Cisse: So you can just fill out your name and your contact information, choose three dates and times that you're available, and we'll find someone to work with you at your convenience. 136 00:21:42.330 --> 00:21:42.810 Sarah Cisse: Okay. 137 00:21:44.550 --> 00:21:46.710 Sarah Cisse: So that's the Appointment Request form. 138 00:21:48.180 --> 00:21:59.700 Sarah Cisse: You know, we usually get back to you within a day or two, to make that appointment. So we try to set that up for you, you know, relatively quickly so that you can get the help that you need. 139 00:22:03.210 --> 00:22:11.130 Sarah Cisse: Okay, let me go back to the main page. And it looks like we may have something in the Chat. 140 00:22:14.130 --> 00:22:19.230 Sarah Cisse: Okay, we have a question that says, are medical databases available. 141 00:22:21.030 --> 00:22:39.270 Sarah Cisse: We do have a health and medicine category in our database area. From the main page, under Databases by Subject, in that search box, you can just type in health. Start typing in health, and you'll see that link, Health and Medicine pop up. 142 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:42.300 Sarah Cisse: Just click on that. 143 00:22:45.300 --> 00:22:55.650 Sarah Cisse: And on the next page you'll see our list of health and medicine databases. And what you want to pay attention to is what you have access to right now, remotely. 144 00:22:56.670 --> 00:23:02.580 Sarah Cisse: For our NSU students, faculty or staff, you should be able to access most things from home. 145 00:23:03.810 --> 00:23:14.160 Sarah Cisse: If you're a Broward card, I'm sorry, public card holder, you would want to see any database that had the word ALL next to the house. 146 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:18.060 Sarah Cisse: Or, let's see what else. 147 00:23:19.770 --> 00:23:37.050 Sarah Cisse: Yep, anything that says ALL next to the little house means that you'd be able to access that particular database from home. Okay, anything that says NSU, unfortunately you would not be able to access from home. Okay, so look for anything that says ALL, right? 148 00:23:38.790 --> 00:23:44.790 Sarah Cisse: So we have, let's see, we have PubMed Central that everyone can access remotely. 149 00:23:45.870 --> 00:23:55.980 Sarah Cisse: If you're an alumni, Web of Science, you'd be able to access that from home. Let's see, what else do we have for public patrons? 150 00:23:57.090 --> 00:23:58.890 Sarah Cisse: We have something called AGRICOLA. 151 00:24:01.290 --> 00:24:15.150 Sarah Cisse: Actually we do have some that say Broward, NSU and Broward. That means that if you have the public card, you'd be able to access this one, Alexander Street Press Videos. It does include Health Sciences videos. 152 00:24:15.540 --> 00:24:26.280 Sarah Cisse: Okay, so that's what you're looking for. And of course, you would just simply click on the name of the database. Click on that link, and you would sign in. 153 00:24:29.910 --> 00:24:34.230 Sarah Cisse: And does that answer your question about medical databases? 154 00:24:42.390 --> 00:24:44.490 Sarah Cisse: Okay, any other questions. 155 00:24:52.410 --> 00:25:13.080 Sarah Cisse: All right, looks like we have no other questions. So I'm going to wrap it up. I want to thank you guys for attending. Back on our main page, at the bottom of the page, see if I can find, let's make sure this loads properly, and once it loads, you'll see all of our upcoming events. 156 00:25:14.370 --> 00:25:16.590 Sarah Cisse: We hope to see you at our future Library 101 157 00:25:17.820 --> 00:25:26.220 Sarah Cisse: workshops. And again, thank you for attending, and I'm going to say goodbye. Thanks everyone. 158 00:25:29.040 --> 00:25:29.550 Sarah Cisse: Bye!