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