Library Research FAQ

• This should be easy to find, and you should be able to verify their qualifications
• A note about website domains: .gov domains signal a government agency, and so that often means the information can be trusted (for non-politically controversial science). .edu domains signal educational institutions. All other domain types can be freely used by anyone, so don't trust a website just because it says .org.

• This should be both obvious and frequent 

Finding DOIs

Search this resource by title, author, journal, etc., in order to find a DOI and/or author's ORCID or other identifiers

• Tip : Remember, search for as few words as possible - the more you put in, the less you get out. If you don't find your article, try searching for only part of the article title. Leave off subtitles.

Many databases or journals will display the DOI in the article abstract, if it is available.

Most digital downloads of articles will display the DOI somewhere on the downloaded pdf itself. For example, the publisher Biomed Central will include it on the top left of each article

Citing Documents Using DOIs

There are three currently acceptable forms of DOI according to APA - the older formats and the most recently adopted one. Any can be used correctly but APA recommends that you use only one in the same reference list. Consult your professors for their preference as to form, should they have one.

Example of APA citation of digital article using an older DOI format:

Thomson, O. P., Petty, N. J., & Moore, A. P. (2014). Clinical decision-making and therapeutic approaches in osteopathy – A qualitative grounded theory study. Manual Therapy, 19(1), 44–51. doi:10.1016/j.math.2013.07.008

Example of APA citation of same article using the current DOI format:

Thomson, O. P., Petty, N. J., & Moore, A. P. (2014). Clinical decision-making and therapeutic approaches in osteopathy – A qualitative grounded theory study. Manual Therapy, 19(1), 44–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.math.2013.07.008

Additional Considerations for DOIs

If you follow a DOI link, it will take you straight to the article and won't tell it if ATSU has the rights to access it even if we have a subscription. ATSU may also have access to it, but not the original version on the publisher's website.  If this happens, use these three steps to gain access to it:

1. Look up the article title using Still OneSearch on the Library's homepage
2. If that fails, look up the journal title using the Library's Browse e-Journals link. 
   • Select the correct year from the journal's index page
   • Select the correct issue and browse for the article title
3. If that fails, request the article or document using Interlibrary Loan
   • Typically takes 1-3 business days and is free to ATSU faculty, staff, students, and alumni (limit 5 per month for alumni only)

Find ideas or research updates to investigate by following shared links or news stories, or by following discussions on general social sites used by a broad range of the general public such as Twitter, Reddit, and Quora.

• These sites are great for finding out about new studies, events, conferences, current policy discussion, legal changes, etc. that are in need of further investigation
• Find researchers, hashtags, subreddits, topics, fora, etc that your research community uses and join or follow them
• Statements found here are NOT RELIABLE on their own - everything you find here must be verified by consulting other sources

Join social and research communities and blog sites for researchers and health sciences professionals such as  Mendeley, F1000 Workspace, NEJM Resident 360, Dental Elf, dentaltown, ResearchGate, other networks. Chat with other interested and hopefully expert people.

• These sites are great sources to find out about potential jobs, new research, potential research partners, interesting articles, etc.
• Look up the work of researchers or chatterers who share things on the above – ensure that they are respectable before you trust their work
• Find the original article or source mentioned in shared stories or news blurbs and use it to support your ideas
• If you want to include a comment from the discussion, cite both the discussion, and then the actual research article – make it clear that you verified the discussion from the article

Use Wikipedia to get a rough overview of an idea fast, but don’t trust it as being verifiably true.

• Look up articles or research in PubMed or other respected sources to support ideas discovered via Wikipedia.
• Quote the published articles or presentations, NOT the Wikipedia synopsis.
• Look at the sources the wikipedia page is citing - these may be useful sources for your own work

Set Up Instructions

• Login to the resource using your ATSU login and password
  • Note : If the resource is a free resource or has a free version (Mendeley, Zotero, My NCBI, etc.), you will be able to later change the associated email address and carry your personal account with you even after graduation
• Create a personal ID for the resource following its directions
  • Find the option for doing this by clicking on something that would require it - either a folder, a my-account link, save link, etc.
• Use your ATSU email if an email is required
• Do not use your ATSU password - that will change regularly, and the one for your personal ID will not. If you use something different, you will be less likely to forget it

Later Use Instructions

• Login using your ATSU login and password
  • Note: Some resources will require this every time; most mobile resources will only require it when your ATSU login and password change
• Login again using your personal ID for that resource

• Select a mass email
• Click on the three dots at the right side of the menu bar above the email
• Click on Filter messages like these

• It will display a form with different fields. By default, it will filter the sending address of your selected message. 
  • If you want to filter ALL messages from this source, keep it as is
  • If you want to filter a series of messages with a consistent subject line, enter the part of the subject line that is consistent on the correct line
  • If you want to filter the Library research tip emails, enter ATSU Library Research Tip on the subject line 
• Click Create filter

• Select Conditions and Actions for your Filter
• If you wish to do anything other than delete the messages, add an existing or create a new Label
• The Label will act as a Folder which will appear on the left side of your inbox
• Click Create filter to label this and future emails that meet your conditions

• Check the Skip the inbox (archive it) option
  • You will not see these emails in your primary inbox
  • They WILL appear when you click on the folder with the label you applied
  • You will see an unread email count next to your folders when new ones arrive

• Check Delete it to automatically delete all emails like this one in the future

• Check Apply the label without adding other conditions
• You can also manually apply a label to a single open email by clicking the Label icon above the message

• Enter your conditions
• Check Also apply filter to matching messages

• Click on the Settings gear icon in the top right of your inbox
• Select Settings from its menu
• Click on Filters and Blocked Addresses at the top menu
• Edit or delete your filters