Locating Academic Sources Through U of M Library PDF

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1. Visit the University of Manitoba homepage (http://umanitoba.ca/). 2. Click on the “Current Students” option available below the “University of Manitoba” logo on the main page. 3. Select the link “Library Search” from the options available (this is within the third column of options under “Current Students”). 4. A webpage with a search engine entitled “One-Stop Search” (similar to Google) should load. In that search box, type key words to find academic articles. a. NOTE: The more specific the keywords, the more effective the search will be. For instance, currently (Spring of 2013), when you type “Metacognition” into a particular search engine, you will find 13,130 articles, some of which may not relate to particular area of interest. To modify your search, try to be more specific. During this search session, the search terms were modified to “Metacognition and Cornell Note-Taking” and only 158 articles were found. These may be more specifically related to what you are attempting to research. Continue to use different combinations of search terms. The different terms will result in the selection different articles. 5. After searching using your keywords, browse the list of articles that appear to find articles that may help you explore your thesis statement. a. NOTE: You do not have to read all of these articles. To speed up the process of selecting relevant articles to use in your paper, click on the “Details” link below the article. This will give you an abstract of what the journal article contains and what it intends to prove. 6. Once you have found a relevant article you wish to read, click on the yellow “Get It @ UML” button ( ). This will take you to another webpage entitled “Get It @ UML” that contains direct link(s) to the article. This webpage also contains some reference information for the article that you may use in your own reference page. 7. There are often a number of options available on the “Get It @ UML” webpage. These options may allow you to access the article online, or to find a print copy in the library. To get the article online, click the blue link entitled “Full Text Available” to visit the webpage containing the article. Sometimes there are multiple links entitled “Full Text Available”. If that is the case, keep using each link until you find one that works (sometimes these links are broken). a. NOTE: If the website attempts to charge you money for the article, do not use it. There are plenty of academic articles you can find that are free. 8. A new browser window should open containing the article. To download the article to your computer (which is highly recommended - sometimes sources can get lost online), click the “View PDF” link. This will open up a new window with the article in PDF form that you can save to your desktop....