1) You are going to search for three articles in your area the philosophy of X

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1) You are going to search for three articles in your area the philosophy of X.

USE THIS TEMPLATE TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK INTO RESEARCH 3 SUBMIT

Article Title:
Author:
Journal: (name and volume #)
Date:
Pages:

SMC Database searched:
Link to Article: Permalink for EBSCO HOST/Remote Access URL for JSTOR

Search terms used:
Strategy:
Result List #:

2. Search the philosophical literature for articles within the last 20 years using your background information (developed from Research 1 and Research 2 ) .
How?

A. Search in the data bases of the Santa Monica College LibraryLinks to an external site..
-- See the link to SMC Library Databases (in the column on the left)
-- If not already familiar with database searching then review this guide: On Using the SMC Library Data Bases

B. Make sure that in the end your selected articles are retrievable by title or by author from the SMC Library's data bases.
Check them by title or by author after you have decided which to include in your report. In other words, take the article title and put in a title search for it. Anyone should be able to find your articles in the SMC database by searching for the titles or authors that you supply....BUT
You will initially search for articles using the various search terms that you assembled from Research 2. You will be conducting conceptual searches. You shouldn't already have a title at hand (where from? another course?). You are to be looking fresh for articles that meet your conceptual interest in the philosophy of X.

3. For each of your three selected articles:
(a) List the author, article title, journal title, volume, date, page; note that the journal title is the major publication in which the article originally appeared. The journal title is usually given right after the article title. Sometimes it is titled "The Journal of..."; sometimes not (e.g., "Mind", "Phronesis", "Business Review", "American Law Review", "Acta Mathematica", etc). The article title and journal title are often so close together on the bibliographic page that the best thing to do it to click on the article and check it. Then you can clearly tell the article title and realize that what comes after it on the bibliographic page is the journal title. The Journal title is followed by volume #, date and pages.
Make sure you retrieved a primary source article, not a book, not a review (not a book review), not an editorial commentary, not an editor's review of articles in a given edition. Before clicking "Search" put a check mark in the appropriate boxes--and even then after each title is retrieved inspect it; click on the article and check the first page or two (does it say Reviews at the top? You're in the book review section of the journal. Make sure it is an article from a peer reviewed journal by placing a check in the appropriate box for EBSCO HOST. The articles from the JSTOR database are already limited to peer reviewed journals. Set the dates (1999 to 2020), Put a check for full text availability (you don't want to be retrieving articles where the whole text is not available to read).

In philosophy a primary source article will typically be an argument, a thesis, a developed position with reasoned support.

(b) Make sure to include which SMC database was used for each article and the link to the article inside the data base:
If using EBSCO HOST data base (inside Academic Search CompleteLinks to an external site.) then supply the permalink for the article. Where is it? After you click on the article title and on the page that comes up look over to the right for "Permalink" under the list of Tools. When you click on "permalink" the link appears at the top above the title. Copy and paste that for each article in your report from that database. (Put the cursor at the end of the link and click enter so that the link highlights--lights up blue).

If the JSTORLinks to an external site. database is used then supply the "Remote Access URL". After clicking on the article title the Remote Access URL is usually found somewhere on the left side of the page, copy and paste it into your report for the article(s) retrieved in that database.

(c) List the search terms used and how they were used for each article retrieved.
For example, when using JSTOR if you restricted the search to philosophy journals then you should use conceptual search terms from your topic X; if you restricted the search to journals from your topic area, then you should use philosophical search terms (review Unit I, epistemology, metaphysics, etc.).
-- make sure that your articles are retrievable, can be found, the way you say they can;
-- be sure to check the box for "full text" so that only those articles whose full text is in the SMC data base are retrieved
and...
when you retrieve a page(s) of listed articles be sure to count how far down the list (the result list) your article of interest is (was it the first article in the list, the second, #3, #87...etc?) = result list number.