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Frederick E. Berry Library and Learning Commons

Horowitz ENL110

Co-authored by: Librarians Nancy Dennis and Carol Zoppel

Introduction

  • This tutorial shows how to find articles on COVID-19 and Fake News in the Academic Search Premier library database.
  • Once we find articles, we will select about ten of them and export them to EndNote.
  • We will then import this file into EndNote.
  • In EndNote, we will create the Group "COVID" for the new citations and move them into it.
  • Finally, we create a bibliography, in MLA format, of citations in our group "COVID.'

Finding Citations in Academic Search Premier

At the Berry Library home page, select "Academic Search Premier" in the drop list of "Alphabetical List of Databases."

  • Click "GO."

 

Off Campus Users: Enter Your SSU Credentials in the Proxy Server

If you are accessing the Berry Library from off-campus,

  • you will be prompted to enter your SSU username/password before you can search Academic Search Premier.
    • This verifies that you are a member of the Salem State community and therefore entitled to use library databases.

Enter Search Terms in "Advanced Search" in Academic Search Premier

  • Once Academic Search Premier opens (either right away if you are on campus, or after you enter your credentials in the Proxy Server), go to the "Advanced Search" link:

  • Enter your search terms "COVID-19" and "fake news" in two different lines on the Advanced Search template. 
    • Notice the "AND" to the left of where you key in "fake News."
      • This shows that a Boolean "AND" search will be executed. Records will have both concepts: COVID and fake news.
    • Notice that as I begin entering my terms, Academic Search Premier suggests additional, enhanced options. 
    • Select one!

 

 

 

 

 

  • After I have my final search, I press "SEARCH."

 

 

 

 

 

  • I get 277 results!
  • I check the Limit to "Full Text" box on the left of the page to articles in the Berry Library collection.

 

The Full Text Limit Box:

  • Source types of my articles:

 

  • I browse the list of articles and click the yellow "Folder" icon on the right side of the page to save the ones I like.

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Selecting Articles and Putting Them in a Folder

  • Once I have all the articles I want, I click the Folder View, and "Select All"
    • The first screen shot shows where I clicked "Folder View."
    • The second shot shows where I "Select All.'
    • The third shot shows more of the references in the Folder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exporting Citations to EndNote

Step One

  • To the right of the citations in my folder is a list of tools.
  • Click on "Export."
  • This will move citations in our folder to a file that can be imported into EndNote.

Step Two

  • This box opens choices of export locations.
  • Click the button marked:

     

  • Look for a file with a .ris extension on your computer. 
  • My file has the Z icon because I have Zotero (another citation management system) installed. 
  • Your file most likely will just say: 
    • "delivery (1).ris"

Importing the RIS Citation File into EndNote

  • In EndNote, click "Collect" and "Import References." 
    • A template appears.
    • Fill it out as the example below show.
    • Click "Import."
    • Please email ndennis@salemstate.edu with help here!

  • Nine references were imported into EndNote:

Making a Group for Newly Imported References

  • Clicking on "My References" shows the new citations:

  • Click on "Organize" and "Manage My Groups" 
    • Click "New Group."

  • Create a new group "COVID."

 

  • Go to your References, select all, and move to the COVID group:

Making a MLA Formatted Bibliography

Go to "Format" in the ribbon above your references.

  • Click "Bibliography."

Enter data in the drop down boxes that open.

  • Select the references you would like included in the bibliography. In our example, we are working with the entire "COVID" file.
  • Select "MLA" format.
  • Select either "text" or "rich text format" for the bibliography output. Both of these will open in Word or other document processing programs.
  • When you are done, click "Save," "Email," or "Preview."

This is what "Save" provides: