McMillen Library

Nina Collins

Library Resources and Database SearchingPhD immersion weekend

April 26, 2014

Services for Students

• Online Resources

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• Reference help

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Books

Finding books at McMillen Library

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Ebooks

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EBSCOhost ebooks

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Ebrary Features

• Browse by topic• Search within text• Advanced search• Chapter search results• Personal account, with Bookshelf• Highlighting• Take and save notes in the text• Mobile App (android and iOS)

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More booksAcademic Libraries of Indiana

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Proquest

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Advanced Database Searching

• Boolean Operators

• Use of Quotations

• Use of Parentheses

• Limiters

• Access Points--Search Specific Fields

• Thesaurus

• Wild Cards and Truncation

Boolean Operators

AND, OR, NOT

A = Labrador B = Poodle

Quotations

Use quotation marks around phrases when you want to find all the words in this exact order and proximity.

• Servant leadership -> The servant response to the direction of the leadership...

• "Servant leadership" -> Servant leadership and ethics in business...

Parentheses

Use parentheses to indicate order of operations.

(Expatriate OR "former military") AND (female OR woman OR women)

Limiters• Full-text

• Scholarly Journals

• Peer reviewed

• Date

• Document type

• Source type

Access Points: Search Specific Fields

• Title

• Author

• Descriptor or Subject Terms

• (Explore the possibilities)

Thesaurus• Browse subject terms

• Search by subject

This helps find sources that may be using different terms from what you are using, but which cover the same subject matter.

It also helps retrieve items that have been misspelled in the catalog.

Wild Cards & Truncation

Wildcard: ?

• Wom?n -> woman, women

Truncation: *

• Lead* -> lead, leads, leader, leaders, leadership

An Example

"I would like to conduct my research on high ranking expatriate women in the military that have served on international assignments. I have no interest in articles relating to sexual assaults or women serving in combat positions. The women I am seeking to find are the women in leadership positions making a differences in the lives of people in different cultures in which they are serving internationally."

An Example

(Wom?n AND international AND leader*)

AND (expatriate OR military)

NOT (combat OR sex*)

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Save searches, resources and figures/tables.

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