PRIMARY SOURCES
Primary empirical research vs review articles video
Google Scholar (video): Not all articles are free; look for PDF links on the right side.
- Go to Settings, click on Library Links,
- Add "Kapiolani Community College Library" to link to additional PDFs.
- Add "University of Hawaii at Manoa" if you are taking a class at Manoa or contact joy.oehlers@hawaii.edu for assistance with requesting a UH Manoa article.
PubMedCentral (video)
- Fulltext access to 8+ million articles
- Automatic APA citation
ScienceDirect: Use the library link, not sciencedirect.com, to access our subscribed journals.
- Check the Subscribe Journal box to get articles with full-text
- Copy the article title into Google Scholar to generate the APA citation
Other library links: EBSCO (select peer-review only) | Science Magazine | JSTOR
GENERAL SOURCES
Advanced Google Search (video)
- Check that it is a scientific report or study providing scientific evidence and includes references. Avoid personal or lobbyists' opinions,
- Try adding these to limit your results to
- site:.hawaii.edu
- site:.gov
- filetype:pdf
Sample search string:
Adding more search words = more focused results.
Try alternative words if the results aren't good.
