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Places to Look for Scholarly Research

Searching Academic Databases

  1. The first place to look is Academic Search Complete
  2. The second place to look is a subject based research guide
  3. The third place to look is General Library Search Tool
    • Use Advanced Search
    • Filter by Scholarly & last 5 years
    • Use other filters
      1. Journal Articles
      2. Subject Terms
  4. Finally, The main library search box

Open Access Journals

Google Searching Tips/Shortcuts

  Search Shortcuts

  Explanation Example
Phrase Search (Using Quotation Marks Looks for complete phrase exactly as it is typed "human cause for climate change"
Site: Focuses on specific domain types .com (commercial), .org (organization), .gov (government), .edu (education) site:.gov 2016 presidential voting statistics
Related: Finds similar sites related:put the url of another site
Link: Finds sites that are linked to a site or have used the site as a reference link:put the url of another site
Filetype: Finds information in a specific file format (e.g., .doc, .ppt, .pdf, .xls, etc) filetype: .xls 2016 presidential election results

 

AI Search for Scholarly Articles

  1. AI-Powered Scholarly Search Engines
    1. Semantic Scholar (semanticscholar.org)
      • Uses AI to find relevant research papers, summarize key points, and highlight influential citations.
    2. Research Rabbit (researchrabbit.ai)
      • AI-powered tool that suggests papers based on your interests and creates citation networks.
  2. Traditional Scholarly Databases with AI Features
    1. CORE (core.ac.uk)
      • Aggregates open-access research papers from universities worldwide.
    2. Google Scholar (scholar.google.com)
      • Search for academic papers, set up alerts, and find related works.