CEGS 450 - Capstone - Condella: Home

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In our in-class research workshop you will:

• Refine your research question

• Practice using  library databases such as JSTOR, EBSCO, Proquest, and the freely accessible Google Scholar. 

• Complete an online research activity to find sources which might be helpful for your annotated bibliography assignment

The skills you will be working on while researching the capstone project include:

• Brainstorming own ideas, developing creative scholarly thinking skills

• Learning how to ask questions about new topics

• Developing reading skills to be able to analyze and make sense a text and incorporate its new ideas into your existing knowledge

Google Scholar has advanced features which can help with your research. First, you can let Google Scholar know that you have access to Salve's resources. Then whenever you search, if the library subscribes to the resource, you'll be shown a link "Find @ Salve" which you can click on to be routed to the library's access to the article.

First, log into your Google account (if you don't have one, you'll just have to do this process each time you use Google Scholar). Click on the three stacked lines to the top left of the page. Then click on "settings."

Next, choose "library links" and search "Salve Regina" and search. When the results come back, select Salve Regina University and save. If you've logged into your Google Account, this setting will be saved and access to Salve's subscription resources will show up every time you search Google Scholar. You can also use this process to see if other institutions you're affiliated can be linked to Google Scholar.  

JSTOR, EBSCO, and Proquest are library databases that have a large amount of articles and ebooks that are not freely accessible in tools like Google Scholar. They also more reliably have fully peer-reviewed articles than Google Scholar which often links to article versions before they were peer-reviewed. The main point is that if you only rely on Google Scholar you're likely to be missing a significant body of literature on your topic. Feel free to make an appointment with a librarian if you're having trouble finding articles or books in library databases. 

If you find a good article related to your topic, Google Scholar's "Cited By" feature allows you to see all the authors and articles that cited that topic.

Then you can "search within citing articles" to find the articles that were written after the first article you found that address the same issue you're researching. 

This can be a really powerful tool to see the scholarly conversation around your topic. You can look at an article's bibliography to see the scholarly conversation that was happening before the article was published, and at Google Scholar's "cited by" to see the scholarly conversation that was happening after the article was published. 

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