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FOUN 098 44: Developing Oneself By Way of Bucknell: Finding Sources

Finding Scholarly Journal Articles

ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the world's most widely used index to educational-related literature. It contains a wide variety of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Covers the academic research and practice literature in all areas of psychology. Be sure to use the limits on the right side of your search results screen to narrow your results. PsycInfo indexes journal articles, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports, and other documents in dozens of languages.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Includes full-text articles from hundreds of journals, covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

Google Scholar
Another way to search for and access scholarly journal articles. When off campus, change settings and set your library to Bucknell University - Full text @ Bucknell and log into My Bucknell to facilitate access.

Additional Resources

Excelsior OWL (My New Favorite APA Resource)
APA In-Text Citations, APA References, and APA Formatting guides to help you properly incorporate correct APA citations and style.
Information Literacy: Reading Strategies
Strategies for reading complex content (like scholarly journal articles).
Organize Your Sources Worksheet
This link will ask you if you want to make a copy of the Google Doc (say yes!). It provides a framework for organizing your sources and thinking about how they will work to support your thesis and the arguments in the body of your paper and help you answer questions about your topic (two components of the rubric for this assignment). Note that the first page is a blank template, and the subsequent pages provide a completed sample for your reference.
Need more help integrating sources?
This section of the library's "How to Start Your Research: A DIY Guide" provides guidelines and support for organizing and integrating sources into your paper.

Search Strategy Worksheet

Click the link below to make a copy of a worksheet that will help you develop a search strategy for your topic.

Search Strategy Worksheet

Generating keywords for searches

Trying to come up with keywords for your search?

Brainstorm for keywords related to the main concepts of your topic.
Use different combinations of keywords when searching databases.

Concept Map
Streamline your searching by expanding your list of keywords/search terms.
Thinking Tool - Choosing a Topic
A helpful way to think through topic exploration.

Searching Across Databases

Searching multiple databases at once may prove helpful, especially for classes like Educational Psychology, where there is crossover between disciplines. While these instructions will help you search PsycInfo and ERIC simultaneously, you can select any or all databases displayed in the list and add them to your search.

From within ERIC or PsycInfo, click Change Databases at the top of the page
Check Select All OR check specific databases that you want to include in your search
Click Use Selected Databases button at the top or the bottom of the page

Note that the options for limiting your search may vary depending on which databases you include in your search.

Scholarly vs. Popular

Scholarly Sources (A How-to Guide): Introduction
A concise guide from DePaul University on scholarly sources, what they are, why to use them, and how to find them.

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