ENGL 1101: Dr.Howells - Fall 2023: Finding Library Resources on AI

Academic journals, sometimes called scholarly journals, are a periodical (published on a regular basis) that publishes scholarly information pertaining to a certain topic. They typically focus on a specific subject, such as nursing or history. 

Examples: 

• Gender & History
• Applied Artificial Intelligence 

An academic article is found within an academic journal. Usually, experts in a given field or discipline peer-review an academic article before it is released. 

Examples: 

• Double Disadvantage or Golden Age? Immigration, Gender and Economic Opportunity in Later Medieval England (from the academic journal Gender & History)
• Cybersecurity Deep: Approaches, Attacks Dataset, and Comparative Study (from the academic journal Applied Artificial Intelligence)

Tips for Searching Discover & GIL-Find (and other library databases)

• Use quotation marks to enclose phrases (more than two words)
  • Examples:
    • "Artificial Intelligence"
    • "Machine Learning"
    • "Criminal Justice"
• Use AND between words to narrow your search (makes the search more specific) 
  • Examples:  
    • "Artificial Intelligence" AND "Criminal Justice"
    • "Artificial Intelligence" AND "College Writing"
    • "Artificial Intelligence" AND "College Writing" AND Plagiarism
  • Feel free to add more than two keywords/phrases 
• Use OR between words to broaden your search (less specific search, but more results)
  • "Artificial Intelligence" OR "Marching Learning"
  • "Artificial Intelligence" OR "Criminal Justice" 
  • "Artificial Intelligence" OR "College Writing" OR Plagiarism (this would be an exceptionally broad search)
• Whereas Discover is ideal for finding academic journals, GIL-Find is ideal for finding books and e-books in the library's catalog.