Today I took the time to actually navigate through the electronic journal databases at UBC. Since starting my T-L Diploma this summer (this is course #2 for me), I have had to research 6 scholarly articles (3 for each course). Prior to that, I have never had the opportunity to use an online database. It has been nearly 20 years since I finished my BEd and my research at that time came entirely from print resources. Needless to say, this has been a huge learning curve for me. I admit, I have completely avoided using the UBC databases, being able to access EBSCO through my school district. They just looked completely overwhelming to me!
At the beginning of this course, I took the tutorial with Jo-Anne Naslund and had I sat down at that time and gone through the UBC databases, I might have actually learned something. So today, I took the online tutorial through Vista and I am going to record step-by-step everything I did, so that for my next course, I will remember! Surprisingly, I found these databases extremely easy to navigate! Next time I'll not put the cart-before-the-horse and will take the time to use these excellent resources! At least I have 8 more courses to improve! Good lesson as a student and as a teacher!
1. VPN set up --no problem... quick, easy
2. Tutorial on Vista
3. Go to "e-resources"
4. Go to "Indexes and Databases"
5. Browsed “A” under "title" for “Academic Search Complete”
6. Boolean search “Information Literacy” and “Librarians”
7. Checked peer-reviewed
8. Publication type: periodical
9. Language: English
10. Document Type: article
11. Click: Search
12. 461 results…could narrow further with publication dates
13. Overview icon…get abstract
14. Got lots of “medical” articles..yuck...could further narrow with tabs on left
15. Could put the articles in a folder for review later
16. If didn’t have PDF format, could search other databases for the article quickly and efficiently
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