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Question 11 pts

First, what is the main academic department at UCI where your major is housed? If you don’t know, try starting at the UCI School of Social Sciences home page and exploring the different departments listed there. When in doubt, just pick the one that seems closest. Which department did you choose?

ENTER NAME OF A UCI DEPARTMENT OR PROGRAM (Ex: Criminology, Law, and Society)

Question 21 pts

Select one faculty member in the department you are exploring whom you already know from taking a class with her or him,or someone whose research seems interesting to you (most departments list research interests right next to the faculty member’s name and photo!). What is the selected faculty member’s name?

ENTER UCI FACULTY MEMBER'S NAME (Ex. Charles Ragin)

Question 31 pts

Follow the “cv” link next to their name or do a Google search with “cv” added to their name. If there is no cv for that faculty member, repeat the previous steps until you find someone with a cv available online. Provide the URL to this online cv or the URL to an Adobe PDF version of this cv.

ENTER URL OF THE CV (Ex: ENTER URL OF THE CV (Ex: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~kfaust/cv.pdf)

Question 41 pts

Take a few minutes to look over the peer-reviewed publications section of their CV. Then provide the full title of one of their most recent listed peer-reviewed publications.

ENTER THE TITLE OF THE PUBLICATION (Ex: "Expectation as Anticipation Under Strain: A Theory")

Question 51 pts

One of the researchers at this organization does research on game theory and wants to cite a very famous paper by NASH, JF that appeared in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA in the year 1950. The research cannot remember the exact name of this article. Use one of the academic search engines to locate the title of this highly influential paper.

ENTER EXACT TITLE OF PAPER (Ex: "Economic Principles of Micro-Lending")

Question 61 pts

To see just how influential this paper has been, use the Web of Science/Web of Knowledge to determine how many timesthis paper has been cited by other researchers in their own work (using all available databases). [NOTE: do not report the number of citing articles, which will be lower]

ENTER NUMBER OF TIMES ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED (Ex: 1,234,567)

Question 71 pts

In 2001, a major motion picture entitled "A Beautiful Mind" retold the story of Nash's life and his contributions to game theory and economics. Check the box next to this article in the main search results and then click on “citation report” to find out how many times this famous article was cited in just the year 2001.

ENTER NUMBER OF TIMES CITED IN JUST 2001 (Ex: 2,345)

Question 81 pts

Make sure that you go back to the original search result in WOS/WOK and click on the actual article title to open up the full article search result. Click on the Times Cited link to pull up the list of all articles that have cited this influential work. Sort from oldest to newest and then report the year the first known article citing this major article appeared and the name of its author(s).

ENTER YEAR AND AUTHOR NAME (Ex: Blass and Klein 1981)

Question 91 pts

Returning one last time to the main page, click on the UC e-Links icon in the upper left to view the various ways that you could access the original text of this article from on campus or while logged into the campus network via VPN (see note on previous page). Is the full text of this article available to you as a student? If no, just put “no”. If yes, also include the name of the website that you are redirected to or the service that you would use to download a copy of this article as a PDF file through UCI.

ENTER YES/NO AND NAME OF SERVICE IF NEEDED (Ex: Yes – Proquest)

Question 101 pts

Now another researcher at your same organization wants your help with her project. She would like to know how many different journals she should plan to include in a broad review of the literature in the field of “international relations”. To help her, start by visiting the UCI Libraries e-journal page (link here: http://ucelinks.cdlib.org:8888/sfx_uci/az (Links to an external site.)) and entering this exact phrase into the search box: international relations. How many results are produced (use “contains”)?

ENTER NUMBER OF RESULTS (Ex: 34)

Question 111 pts

Let’s do the same thing using JSTOR. Navigate to the JSTOR “Advanced Search” window and scroll down until you see the phrase “NARROW BY DISCIPLINE AND/OR PUBLICATION TITLE:”. Scroll down the list of major subjects. Do you see anything that matches this topic? You can search further by entering the “Browse by Title” mode at the top and searching for a few of the journals turned up in the previous item. When you are satisfied answer this question: would you recommend that this researcher use JSTOR as a research tool for her review of the international relations literature?

ENTER YES/NO (Ex: Yes)

Question 121 pts

Use the Browse By Subject Feature in JSTOR to select a subject field that might relate to your own research topic for this class this quarter. Enter that subject by name here. (note: this should be one of the main subject areas listed on the Browse by Subjects page. Choose whichever one seems to be the closest fit.).

ENTER SUBJECT HEADING (Ex: Sociology)

Question 131 pts

How many journals and/or other publications are searched and indexed in the subject you chose for the previous answer?

ENTER ACTUAL NUMBER OF JOURNALS (Ex: 213)

Question 141 pts

Scroll through the list and provide the name of one publication or journal that you think might hold promise as a source of high-quality, hopefully peer-reviewed research reports about the topic that you’ve chosen to write about. If you cannot find ANY promising titles using JSTOR, you can try WOS/WOK, Proquest, or another Academic Search Engine. Please do not use Google Scholar for this task, and note that you may have to figure out how to Browse by Subject or Title in these other search engines).

ENTER TITLE OF JOURNAL (Ex. Journal of Sport Fishing Science)

Question 151 pts

Scroll through the list and provide the name of one specific (lead) researcher that you think might hold promise as a starting point for further research related to your topic. If you cannot find ANY promising names using JSTOR, you can try WOS/WOK, Proquest, or another Academic Search Engine. Please do not use Google Scholar for this task, and note that you may have to figure out how to Browse by Subject or Title in these other search engines.

ENTER NAME OF RESEARCHER (Ex. FISHER, B.)

Question 163 pts

If you haven't already done so, be sure to review the videos from Module 3.2 on Academic Search. In them, I briefly discuss the significance of keywords for effective searching. Booth et al. discuss these as well. When you have a clear sense of what makes a good keyword (specific, relevant, unique, etc.), list any three (3) high quality keywords that you could use as part of a search for articles relating to your research topic and question for this course.

ENTER THREE KEYWORDS (EX: game theory, artificial intelligence, turing test)

Question 171 pts

Using one or more of your keywords and any academic search engine studied this week in lab or mentioned in lecture, locate any two (2) research articles that are available as full text and provide either the stable URL or the DOI for each article.

ENTER STABLE URL OR DOI FOR ARTICLE NUMBER 1 (EX: doi: 10.1073/pnas.36.1.48)

Question 181 pts

ENTER STABLE URL OR DOI FOR ARTICLE NUMBER 2 (EX: doi: 10.1073/pnas.36.1.48)