Our research has came to using academic articles to find out more on our research topic and questions. This can be a daunting task but with the right databases and the right search terms one can find good research. Using a new service called muskiescholar that searches all the school owned databases we can easily search through databases we wouldn't typically think of searching through. Such as sociology or philosophy databases. We also use meta data enabled searching and our previously used truncation and boolean operators. An example of the search I performed was unidentified flying object* OR alien* AND sight*. This search looks for many more searches than just what is stated. It looks for plurals, synonyms and multiple relationships between the terms. Once you do this initial search one can continue to edit the search into a better list of articles with limiters. One limiter I used was Scholarly journals, to make sure I was getting peer reviewed articles, not popular articles of book reviews. Another limiter I used was the subject term extraterrestrial to weed out the articles about illegal aliens. This left a list of around 300 articles in which is better articles and easier to sift through than the approximately 300,000 that initially was returned. There is just some information on finding better scholarly articles that you then can put through the tried and true CRAAP test.
Kelsey
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