Communication: COMM 2050 Kickstart!
Keyword & Searching Help
Samples of keyword searches
(note: edit and choose your own! How can I choose my own?)
bees AND "hive mind"
"artificial intelligence" OR "machine learning" OR automation
AND
future
AND
humanity OR culture OR community OR society
"mario kart" OR nintendo OR wii OR "nintendo switch"
AND
culture OR community
FOR PERSUASIVE; Try these keywords :
debate OR opinion OR rhetoric OR argument
Interlibrary Loan
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Criteria and Standards
Moviecritic, C. T. (2021, February 2). Movie review: Ratatouille (2007). Movies Meet Their Match. https://moviesmeetmatch.blogspot.com/
What do the rating-stars represent on the late Chef Gusteau's sign?
Here's criteria for any information -what are our standards?
Author (does it matter who they are?)
Editor (does the information represent a larger group or organization?)
Date (how new is the information?)
Purpose (why does this information exist? to sell, provoke, mislead -or inform?)
What's the point of an academic library?
O’Donnell, E. (2022, January 23). Patton Oswalt jokes about Ratatouille’s biggest plot hole. ScreenRant. https://screenrant.com/ (How did I get this citation?)
Academic libraries foster research and creative works with students, staff and faculty!
Resources licensed and purchased for over 100 years that you can have free access to
No AI or smart guided searching -what you search for with your keywords determines what you'll find
academic freedom: in higher education, we objectively research everything without fear of recrimination
Consultation and training available ALL the time
A safe (and big!) space to hang out, study, or just be
Where are the best places to do research at the library?
Trends, Ideas, Keywords, General Searching
Library Catalog (everything -highly recommended)
Academic Search Ultimate (A big mash of many disciplines)
CQ Researcher (What is important to U.S. voters right now)
Roper iPoll (Comm Faculty Recommend!)
US Newsstream (most U.S. newspapers -including Utah!)
Google Trends
Scholarly/Academic Research
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Social Science Premium Collection
Communication & Mass Media Complete
PsycINFO (psychology, but with many applications in social sciences)
Business Source Premier (business)
STEM Disciplines
Engineering Village
Medline
Biological Science Collection
CINAHL (nursing -medical policy, procedure, intervention)
HUMANITIES
America: History and Life
Art Full Text
Film and Television Literature Index
Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography
Advanced -sort by # of times cited
Scopus
Web of Science
Your Librarian
I love to help with your research: from just seeing the assignment, to wrapping up with citation management -drop me a line or come by 1726C on the first floor of the Marriott Library
OFFICE HOURS
Send me an e-mail -I'd love to hear from you!
Objectives
Students will learn:
How an academic library works
Criteria and standards for research and work in higher education (what scholarly & academic & peer review mean)
The idea of a scholarly conversation that even undergraduate students are a part of
Basic library search strategies
