Basic Searching
The most basic way to begin searching for articles is to place your search statement (see Creating Search Statements) in the first box. If you were interested in exploring how attitudes towards tattoos have evolved in America, you could start out by search "tattoo AND America."
Advanced Searching
In addition to basic searching, you can also use advanced search features to create a more precise search. You can use different Boolean operators to build your search string. You can also utilize the "Select a Field" option to search by a range of fields including author, title, and journal name.
*Note: All pictured examples of database searching on this page are from Academic Search Complete, an interdisciplinary database that is managed by EBSCOhost. Other databases will likely have similar features, but they will look a little different.
Like the library catalog, many databases will provide subject terms for specific resources. Subject terms are standardized words or phrases that describe the main idea of the source you are looking at. These terms are hyperlinked, so you can select them to bring back a new result list with other books and articles that share the subject term. You should note any especially helpful subject terms as you conduct your research (as well as which database or search tool you found them in!).
Google Scholar is a great tool for certain type of research questions that require journal articles. If you have a Google account you have a Google Scholar account. You can link this account to Salve's library to have your Google Scholar results directly link to the full-text of articles Salve subscribes to.
Steps:
1. Sign into your Google account
2. Go to Google Scholar settings: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_preferences
3. Select “library links,” enter “Salve Regina” check “Salve Regina University Library – Find @ Salve,” and click Save.
4. Go to https://scholar.google.com/ and search your article title.
5. In the results, you'll see a "Find @ Salve" link to the right of the article.
Google Scholar does not include all of Salve’s article subscriptions in its results. If you don’t find your article there, search using the library’s journals button.
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