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ENC1102 - College Composition 2 - Miller

Library Databases

The best way to find articles on a topic is to use the Library's databases, which provide free full-text articles, many of them scholarly. The library databases are only available to Santa Fe College students and employees. To access the databases, click the databases link on the Library's homepage or at the top of this guide. recommended databases for your assignment and class are listed on this guide. When you click the title of the database, you may be prompted to log in with your Office 365 account.

If you need assistance logging in, please call the Reference Desk at 352-395-5409. The databases can also be accessed via eSantaFe.

Best Database to Start Your Research

Finding Subject-Specific Databases

While Academic Search Complete is a great place to start, you may need to dive deeper into more subject-specific research. Consider what discipline your topic falls under. On the databases page, you may choose the subject that most closely fits your topic discipline to see databases that specialize in that area.

Filter by Subject option on database page

Starting Points for Subject-Specific Searching

Google Scholar

Google Scholar indexes scholarly information on the Web. Although much of the content you retrieve using Google Scholar is not available as free full text, you can use Google Scholar to search across most of the Tyree Library's databases. To set up Scholar to show SF Holdings, use the following steps:

  1. Click the three horizontal bars on the top left corner of the screen:
  2. Depending on your screen, you may see a gear icon, the word Settings, or both: Screenshot of Google's gear icon
    Click this link.
  3. On the left side of the next screen, choose Library Links.
  4. In the search box type Santa Fe College and click Find Library.
  5. Choose Santa Fe College - Find it @ Santa Fe and click Save.

In the results list, look for items that are marked as Find it @ Santa Fe. Clicking on the Find it @ Santa Fe link will allow you to log in to access the article through a library database. Use your Office 365 account to log in.


Following the Research

Research is not done in a vacuum. Research articles will build upon previous work, which allows you to follow a timeline of research.

If you find an article that you like, look at that article's references/citations. You may find more articles that are similar in their research goals and that could be useful. You can then use Google Scholar to locate the full text. For instance, here is a citation of an article about Henrietta Lacks.

Robert D. Truog, Aaron Kesselheim, Steven Joffe, "Paying Patients for Their Tissue: The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks," Science 337, 2012: 37-38.

Input the article title in the Google Scholar search box (be sure that you have already set up your Library Links to connect to Santa Fe College). You may need to add in more information, such as author names, if there are too many irrelevant search results.

Google Scholar search for: paying patients for their tissue: the legacy of henrietta lacks

Look to the right for the full text links. If there is no full text available, you may place an Interlibrary Loan request.

full text options for Google Scholar result highlighted

You may also move forward within the research. In Google Scholar, it will tell you how many articles have cited the article you are looking at. In this case, the article "Paying Patients for Their Tissue" has been cited 32 times.

"Cited by" link highlighted

Click that Cited by link to see articles that have cited this article, along with full text links as needed.

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