Topics include emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
Offers popular and scholarly journals covering all fields of psychology - abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and all areas of applied psychology.
Contains full text online reference books on the subjects of art, business, education, environment, history, medicine, multicultural studies, religion, science, and social science. This alternative to Wikipedia is a great place to start your research.
Visit the Dye Learning Center on CCC's Oregon City campus to check out print books. Search for books using CCC Library's catalog, located on the library's homepage. You will need your student ID card to check out a book. Books can be checked out for 6 weeks.
The catalog can also be used for finding articles, videos, and more. For more information about using the catalog effectively, visit the Research Help on Searching page.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) lets you request copies of articles and book chapters from other libraries. Use ILL to request books not available through Summit. ILL is free.
Perform your initial search with the one keyword (or keyword phrase) that describes your most important topic idea.
We recommend as you start your research, start big and broad! Use your first few searches to test out how much information is available on your topic.
The short answer is because of artificial intelligence (AI).
The long answer is because nearly all databases use AI in their search algorithms, and that algorithm includes looking for related keywords automatically. Quotation marks typically override this automatic related-words search.
Skim article titles, abstracts, and subjects (highlighted with labels) listed in your search results.
In this example, an additional (and maybe better) keyword is Generation Alpha.
To find the most relevant and useful results, you will want to perform multiple searches using different keywords.
This process is called "iterative searching." Good research is iterative, meaning it is a circular process where you repeat steps more than once and improve upon what you have done before. Changing up your keywords is part of this process.
Different keywords bring back different kinds of results for different kinds of readers.
Find more relevant information by adding in keywords that target specific aspects of your topic.
For precision searching. Quotation marks restrict the database to finding results containing keywords in the exact order as written, which means the precise context you need is reflected in the search results.
For precision searching. AND commands the database to find search results containing keyword #1 AND keyword #2.
We can change that! There are a couple reasons why you might get zero, or very few, results:
We can change that!
Add in additional keywords that target specific aspects of your topic.
Databases have built-in tools to help you filter through your search results to identify the best resources. Most database results pages offer the following tools:
Talk to a librarian about using built-in tools to help make your research process easier and more efficient.
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