Searching Library Collections, Databases, and other Resources

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Searching Library Collections, Databases, and other Resources

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"Searching" includes learning objects that give students strategies on how to best search for information on their topics using our library collections, such as the catalog, subject-specific databases, and more.

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Researching for the Literature Review
STEM Resource Video Series: GeoRef and GeoScience World

This video covers both databases because GeoRef is integrated into GeoScience World, but you can also use them on their own, so it can be a bit confusing to talk about them separately. This video goes over how to do a search including the different search options in each database, and how to access the full text PDF.
STEM Resource Video Series: Engineering Village

Engineering Village has a few components to it that are relevant to different areas of study and you can search these together or separately. This video covers a basic search applicable to any portion of Engineering Village and looks at the different filtering options you can use to refine your search. It also examine an article record, goes over how to evaluate it and how to share and save resources with permalinks. Finally as Engineering Village is just an indexing database, and the full text is not stored there, it'll show to use the Find It button to gain full access to the PDFs.
STEM Resource Video Series: Introduction to Web of Science

This video covers general searching and the citation tracking features that set Web of Science apart from other databases. Web of Science covers quite a few subject areas, across the sciences and engineering; it actually consists of several separate collections you can search separately or all at once. This video goes over the basics that are applicable to any of the collections.
English 119 Library Instruction Session
MME 435: Finding, Evaluating, and Sharing Articles
MME 435: Obtaining a Permalink in Engineering Village
MBI 147 Lesson Plan
Finding Articles

This video assists Miami University Students in conducting a basic search for academic articles using the Articles & More tab on the library homepage. It reflects the changes made to the library website in the summer of 2020.
Mediamark, Mintel, and Statista Exercise

This in-class handout introduces students to popular business databases for Marketing 291 and highlights how to find information on consumers.