The Mabee-Simpson Library: English: Critical Thinking Exercise

When searching the web for scholarly articles, what criteria does one use to judge the website? How current, reliable, accurate, authoritative, and objective/opinionated is it? This module uses the "Lyon College Library Survival Guide" CRAAP test (page 18) to evaluate websites. These booklets are available for library orientation classes. Using the databases below find an article about PTSD and children. Evaluate it using the "Library Survival Guide."

Library Survival Guide
This guide details how to find just about everything in this library.

WorldCat Discovery
Search for items in The Mabee-Simpson Library and from around the world in WorldCat Discovery. See our librarians for help in locating items or borrowing them from other locations.
Science Direct
Comprises current and archived full-text and abstracts from V. 1, 1823 to the present for the Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, Social Sciences and Humanities, Behavioral Sciences, and the journal titles: Cell, Developmental Cell, and Molecular Cell. The title is misleading because it includes an extensive collection of Social Sciences including the Humanities.
Academic Search Elite
Designed to meet every academic researcher's needs in all disciplines, Academic Search Elite provides access to acclaimed full-text scholarly journals and magazines.
JSTOR
Offers complete full-text articles in all subjects and ebooks as well. JSTOR uses a 5 year moving wall meaning that any article older than 5 years from today is full-text on JSTOR. Articles published within 5 years of today are only citation/abstract. All ebooks require no special app and are fully accessible on the web.

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