Assignment 9

1. I chose PsychInfo as my specific database.

2. PsychInfo provided many more results for my topic. Academic search premier found 11 results and PsychInfo found 140 results. Not all of the PsychInfo results were relevant for my topic, but it did have more relevant results than Academic Search Premier.

3. In academic search premier you can narrow down results by choosing very specific key words or by selecting what type or style of article you want. PsychInfo worked in a very similar way.

4. My first search string did work.

5. I found 3 or 4 articles that would be relevant to my topic from Academic Search Premier and between 10 and 15 articles that would be relevant from PsychInfo. I did not read the whole articles but from the titles and abstracts or descriptions I am guessing they would be what I need for my topic.

6. On Academic search premier, 3 were available in full text and 1 (the one I wanted most) was available in Findit. The one in Findit was going to have to be through an inter-library loan.

7. From working with data bases my research question has changed a little bit. It's hard to find information on the exact financial gains that the Mdwhanknton are making from their casino, and I'm finding a lot more just general information about tribes and casino ownership. I feel like the Mdwhanknton are not a large enough population or own enough casinos to have a lot of literature written on just them.

8. The biggest challenge in composing my research question was having to accepct the fact that I do have biases about certain populations. I would like to think that I am very open and unbiased but this project pushed me to really think about things and have to admit that I do have some biases. I feel like working on the project is a good way to help me overcome my bias by learning more about my populations.