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HSB4UI – GRADE 12 CHALLENGE AND CHANGE IN SOCIETYCourse Culminating Activity – Part IANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY / LITERATURE REVIEWAcademic Journal Article – Accessing the Virtual LibraryFor your annotated bibliography for this course, you will need to access once academic journal article via our JHSS virtual library. These articles can be challenging to read, but you only need to access and review one of them for this project.Academic JournalsAcademic Journals are published by Universities and other research institutions. They serve as a platform for researchers, professors and scientists to announce and publish the results of their research. There are academic journals for most academic disciplines and they are usually published quarterly (4 times a year). Space is often limited so it is considered a great achievement to have your work “published” in journal. Academic journals are often referred to as “peer reviewed literature.” We will be speaking more about these journals when we get to our unit on social science research.358140048260465455048260577215048260Some examples of major journals of sociology include: The Canadian Journal of Sociology, The American Sociological Association and Sociology Quarterly.Academic Journals are useful because they tend to focus on very specific ideas and areas of research around a particular topic.Accessing Journals at Jacob HespelerMost reputable journals require a subscription to be able to read them, however we have a license to access some journals through our Virtual Library, more specifically EBSCO which is a search engine used for journals.StepsGo to the JHSS Webpage. Click on the “Library” Icon.Click on the “Virtual Library” icon.At this point, you may be prompted to log into the virtual library. Whether you are at home, or at school, the login information is as follows:LOGIN:wrdsbvlibPASSWORD:inquire3714750-47625Once logged in, you will be at the portal to search the various databases for journal articles. The page will look something like this:Though any of the portals may be useful, I recommend using “Secondary One-Stop,” or “Secondary eCollections”57150163195Clicking one of these options will open a new search page. Clicking Secondary One Stop brings up a page that looks like this. Though any of the options listed may be useful depending on the topic you are researching, I recommend using EBSCO in the bottom left corner as it searches many databases at once.Clicking on EBSCO opens yet another page. The easiest way to go from here is to simply click “select all” at the top and click “continue.”12287251130304924425767080This then brings up the EBSCO search engine (which is what you probably wanted from the start). At the top of the page you can type in your search terms (probably your social researcher) and see which articles come up. If you have a “big” name you may need to narrow your search terms down. Play with your results and see what you can find.The type of article that EBSCO finds will be listed beside each entry. You are ultimately looking for “Academic Journal” though you may find some of the other articles useful as well (there are several good magazine articles available)HINT! Most Academic Journals include an Abstract before the article itself. This is usually a short paragraph that describes what the article is about. Read this first and see if this is an article you would be interested in or think would be useful for your research. If it is not, then move on.When you find the article you want, you may want to print it for future reference, or in some cases save it for later use. Most journals include the necessary information necessary to properly cite them in a bibliography. You may need to consult the OWL Purdue in order to see how to properly cite a journal article in a bibliography. The link to do so can be found here: ................
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