What is it?
Academic Search Premier is the world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database. It provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. This database is updated daily. (source: http://www.cofc.edu/~library/databases.html)
Why use it?
For peer reviewed, full text access to scholarly journals and other sources.
What is peer review?
The Hyperdictionary (2005) and Websters On-line (2005) both define peer review as a verb: to evaluate professionally a colleague’s work.
(source: http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/glossary/peerreview.htm)
How do I start?
1. Your Topic. Begin with a research topic in mind. Write it down. If you have trouble deciding on a topic, you may want to browse the subjects in the database, or browse your library's book collection or subject guides.
example: (for a psychology or anthropology class) The Painted Body: Societal Attitudes Toward Tattoos
(for a biology or health class) Disease and Tattoos
2. Once you have a topic sentence, write down the keywords.
example: tattoo* and society, tattoo* and disease
Note: The asterisk (*) allows you to search for variations on the word.
3. Learn how to use Academic Search Premier.
Take a 3 minute tutorial (requires Macromedia Flash).
Note: Other students skip over CofC centric parts.
Note for Off Campus Users: Once you select the database, you will be given instructions to login.
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