DIY Research

Launched in 2004, Google Scholar provides a way to use the power of Google to search for scholarly articles, presentations, reports and more.  While Google Scholar can be a great tool for finding scholarly sources, those sources aren't always free.  Anyone who has used this tool has clicked on a likely-looking resource, only to be taken to a page where they can get the article, if they pay for it.

One big plus side to saving your work online is that it is really easy to share that work with other people - which comes in really handy when you have groupwork to do.

Here's how to create a folder that you can easily share with a study group or project group using your My EBSCOhost account.

Go to the library homepage at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu (if you open this link now, it'll open up in a new window).

So the other day I was working on a research question, and I was trying to find an article that I know is out there - I know I saw it while I was working on this project.  And I tried and tried to remember the search terms that I used that other time so that I could find it again.

Most article databases let you create lists or folders of articles to save, print out, or email to yourself - basically, to keep yourself organized.

Here's how to do this in EBSCOhost databases.

Go to the library homepage at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu (if you open this link right now, it'll open in a new window).

Choose Databases from the Quicklinks list.

Go to the library homepage at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu (if you click the link now, it'll open in a new window).

Choose Databases from the Quicklinks.