Finding and Selecting Articles
Name: __________________________________________
Topic: __________________________________________
Now it's time to put your searching knowledge to work. Imagine that you are preparing for a debate on your topic. You need to find information that will support your arguments as well as inform you about the topic as a whole. So... use your mad search skills to find the best articles possible!
- In each of the following databases, find one full-text article on your topic:
- WilsonSelectPlus (from OCLC FirstSearch)
- Academic Search Elite (from Ebsco)
- Expanded Academic ASAP (from Gale)
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Using NoodleBib, begin a bibliography you will share with a class called “Databases.” Write a citation for each article in APA format. Note that after selecting “journal” (or magazine or newspaper) from the pull-down menu, you will later select the option for aggregated database or library subscription database. This also means that you leave the URL field blank!
Skim the articles and, with each citation, write 3-4 sentence annotations that:
- summarizes the content of the article
- describes how the article will be useful to you in preparing for your debate
- Describe one new thing you learned about this TOPIC just from skimming the articles and writing the annotations.
- Which database do you prefer using?
- ______ WilsonSelectPlus (from OCLC FirstSearch)
- ______ Academic Search Elite (from Ebsco)
- ______ Expanded Academic ASAP (from Gale)
- ______ Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Why do you prefer it? Be specific!