Kelli Wilder: Greeting students today in this video, we're going to learn how to use the library database called
Kelli Wilder: History in context. Now we have two databases that fall into this category one is US history and context and the other one is world history and context, the two databases function.
Kelli Wilder: entirely the same, other than the fact that one is only covering specifically the US and one is covering the greater world. So without further ado, we'll go ahead and get in there. I'm going to go ahead and share my screen with you so you can see what we're doing this we go
Kelli Wilder: All right, so from the ST Philip's College website. The way you would get to our databases is of course you're going to first go into the library. So the way you get into the library is you click on menu.
Kelli Wilder: And you scroll on down here and you click on library.
Kelli Wilder: Here we go.
Kelli Wilder: And now that we're in the library of is you're going to look under library resources and that is where you will find library databases. So I click on the library databases and there's this huge list of databases. And like I said,
Kelli Wilder: There's two different history and context databases. There's the US history in context and world's history in context.
Kelli Wilder: I'm going to go on and start us off in world history in context, just so we can see it because they both function the same way. But keep in mind that both of those exist. So I'm going to click on w here and I'm going to go to world history Gail in context, right here.
Kelli Wilder: And here you go. Now I've already logged in earlier today. So I immediately went into the databases.
Kelli Wilder: If you haven't logged into any databases, yet it's going to screen is going to pop up and the screen is going to ask you to login with a username and password.
Kelli Wilder: It will tell you on that screen, but just so you know. Now the username is your aces ID and the password is your banner ID.
Kelli Wilder: So you'll put in those two things. Now if that does not work for you, please do contact us as soon as possible. You can do that through the library chat feature or you can send us an email.
Kelli Wilder: We can get you put back into the system right away, but we don't know if you don't tell us. So if you're having any trouble getting into the databases, please contact us so we can troubleshoot it and if it's just a situation where
Kelli Wilder: You were bumped out the system. We can get you added back in. So this a little bit about what history in context looks like.
Kelli Wilder: And you'll see here that what we have available right here. You can search just general search terms like you would if you were saved doing Google search.
Kelli Wilder: But you can also look through the list of topics. Since where I recommend for people to start, it's good in two different ways. I'm gonna click on this browse topics right here. Browse topics.
Kelli Wilder: And one if you haven't been able to come up with an idea like you have an open ended assignment where you're just supposed to write on kind of anything of interest.
Kelli Wilder: This is a good place to find topics that are heavily covered in this database.
Kelli Wilder: But also if you do have a topic already, you might find it here and then that way you're not struggling to find the right keywords to search for you'll just click directly here. So I'm looking through we see tons of different topics available.
Kelli Wilder: All sorts of interesting things because, you know, get the whole world to look at the scroll on down and I'm going to click on existentialism
Kelli Wilder: And this is what happens when you click on any of these topics you come here to this page. The first thing is going to give you is an overview. It's going to let you know like a little bit like what is existentialism
Kelli Wilder: Um, who are maybe some of the big players in it, like, you know, small Devo BA SAR come through.
Kelli Wilder: It'll tell you a little bit about that and you can click on this, read more and get a full overview, if you'd like. And that can also be
Kelli Wilder: Particularly important if you need to. If you're trying to learn how to narrow down your topic because like existentialism, for instance, is a huge topic.
Kelli Wilder: There have been several books written about existentialism so
Kelli Wilder: If you're going to write a paper that's three or five or 10 pages, you're going to need to narrow down to a specific aspect and by looking at this overview, you might get an idea.
Kelli Wilder: Now as you scroll on down the page, you'll notice that it says here, like on this page there's Featured Content academic journals primary sources illustrated what kinds of information are available.
Kelli Wilder: So that can help you decide that I found enough like there's 36 academic journal articles. There's 24 magazine articles.
Kelli Wilder: And future contents. Lot of times stuff more like what you'd find like saying an encyclopedia or an almanac, something like that.
Kelli Wilder: So as I'm looking through I see all these different articles.
Kelli Wilder: Primary source information, of course, is directly from the original sources or can be very interesting.
Kelli Wilder: Have some images audio files, I found that usually the audio files or something from NPR so that are high quality news from newspapers and the websites are good because
Kelli Wilder: If your instructors allowed you to venture out into the open web for things when you look at these websites, you're looking at ones that have already been vetted so you know that they're high quality and that they're
Kelli Wilder: permissible to us and something like a research paper. So keep all of that in mind as you're searching through here. Now, when we find something we like.
Kelli Wilder: Like see under academic journals, we have the actress and Bouvier shining a spotlight on Regina and all men are mortal. So I'm going to click on the title just didn't get an example what these look like and the full text of the article pops up right here.
Kelli Wilder: And there are some cool things that you can do in this database to make your life easier.
Kelli Wilder: If you look right here at the top there's a translate feature. So if you read and a language.
Kelli Wilder: Other than English more comfortably. So if you'd rather read in French, or if you'd rather read and German or something like that.
Kelli Wilder: You can have this article translated into the language that you read more comfortably and and that will make your life a little simpler.
Kelli Wilder: You can also increase or decrease the font size. So if it's the prince too small. And you can make it bigger. And here you can actually listen to the article as opposed to
Kelli Wilder: Reading it. So if you're more of an auditory person. This can be very beneficial for you. So keep that in mind.
Kelli Wilder: Other things that you can do right here you can send it to your Google Drive. You can send the article to your OneDrive. You can email it to yourself. You can download it. All of those things are available as well.
Kelli Wilder: If you look up way up here at the top, you'll also see it, you can click citation tools unit print tools. If you have a printer at home.
Kelli Wilder: And you can also make highlights and notes right here on the page.
Kelli Wilder: What's really cool about the highlights and notes is if you read here and make highlights and notes and then send it to say your Google Drive or your OneDrive, it will actually save all of those notes when it sends it to you. So pretty effective.
Kelli Wilder: So now we're scrolling down here we see the full text of the article.
Kelli Wilder: And another thing she went to be aware of as as we're reading the whole article and it goes on and on for quite a while.
Kelli Wilder: Towards the end you'll see the work cited. So these are the works that were used in this article systems. That's a good helpful place for finding more articles on your topic.
Kelli Wilder: And all the way at the end you get past that you'll see a source citation. So
Kelli Wilder: In this database, as well as in US history in context as well as like opposing viewpoints and context, through which all the databases that have in context, next to their name.
Kelli Wilder: There's an automatic MLA citation at the bottom of each article which you can just copy and paste into your paper.
Kelli Wilder: You'll notice here that also you can have that change to an APA or a Chicago as well. So if you need a different citation style for your class or whatever you're writing that's available to you too.
Kelli Wilder: So that will help get you started on finding articles and utilizing this database. I do recommend typically for students when they're researching
Kelli Wilder: Find your articles first and read them later.
Kelli Wilder: Just makes your brain a little bit happier if you do the piece where you're gathering at one time and then later when you have gathered several articles, sit down and read and digest that material, your brain will like to separate out those task.
Kelli Wilder: But that's pretty much the way this one works and hopefully that will help. And like I said, this translates very easily to US history in context as well. So I hope that's helpful to you and that you guys will have a great day. Thanks a lot.
