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Library Tools &Search Strategies
Lindsay DavisFaculty Librarian
Objectives Access Evaluation Search strategies Find an article Find books/eBooks
Access
Google Scholar example
Asks you to pay, but don’t! Check to see if we have it in Publication finder in EBSCOhost.
We can order it from somewhere else if we don’t have access to it.
Evaluation
Which words do you associate with this image?
Keywords Make research questions Break down your questions into the most important
words (keywords) Write down synonyms & related words Use different combinations with different connecting
words and OR or *stem searching quotes
Here’s a video that explains more about keywords
Where would you find this in the grocery store?
Subject terms Think of these like hashtags for
categories Click on them to find other items with the
same subject terms
Find an articleAcademic Search Premier (through EBSCO)Ethnic News WatchLiterature Resource Center
Find a book or eBookCatalog:
finds print & eBooks
eBook specific databases: ABC CLIO eBook Collection EBSCO eBook Collection Gale Virtual Reference Library Salem Press
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