Academic Search Complete vs. JSTOR: Great resources -- Module 3

Both JSTOR and Academic Search Complete are great resources for scholarly, peer reviewed journals that cover a variety of subjects.  I chose JSTOR because I found numerous articles on the topic of information literacy and credibility in a variety of areas of study.  Academic Search Complete yielded great results but only in the field of academia. 

STRATEGY:

My search strategy was to start with a basic search, see what I yielded and use some of the database features to narrow the search.

I tried several combinations of search terms which yielded a large number of results:

• Social media and fake news

• Information literacy and credibility

• Information literacy and fake news

• Information literacy and authenticity

• Information literacy and media literacy

• Information literacy, social media and credibility 

BEST HIT:

"information literacy and fake news"

LESSONS LEARNED:

I learned that there is an enormous amount of content using the term information literacy.  You can use that content to narrow your focus by using some of the search terms you find in the results.  

What I learned from searching this database is that it was very user-friendly in that it helped you narrow your results with the “Refine Results” bar.  This bar allows you to narrow your results down by content type, date range or subject.  You can also search within your results which is another great feature. 

I thought the search on information literacy in this database went very well.  I was able to yield a lot of results and the refine results bar was very useful.