WRITING 205
PREJUDICE AND IDENTITY
Search Terms and Examples
How to Access Articles in Full-Text and Print
http://library.syr.edu/instruction/class/wrt205-prejudiceterms.html
COURSE INSTRUCTOR Lawrie Chase March 22, 2007 |
LIBRARIAN Reference Librarian, Information Studies (315) 443-4807 LIBRARY CONTACTS |
Proquest Research Library
Do an Advanced Search
discrimination
AND
criminal justice
(leave the field selection as "citation and abstract")
You get over 800 results. You could now do a couple of different things to narrow/refine these results:
1) limit by type of publication (see the tabs above the list of results)
2) go back and add more terms to your search
3) go back and search in a different field -- subject
If you go back and change the field to "subject" this narrows the results down to those most "about" discrimination and criminal justice. In the first search, those words were in the citation or abstract, but may not be the central focus of the article.
By searching by subject, you get a little more than 200 results. Now you can limit by publication type, and/or sort by "most relevant first" (the default sort is "most recent first").
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You can also try the Topic Search tab. This can be helpful in guiding you through the process of combining terms and/or narrowing your results:
sex slavery
You get a list of subjects and combinations of terms to pick from such as:
prostitution
prostitution AND slavery
prostitution AND human trafficking
You can either view the records that match, or narrow down further.
Social Sciences Full Text
How "SULinks" works to get to the article
Do an Advanced Search:
stereotypes
AND
violence
#1 in the results list:
"Gender role stereotypes and perceptions of ..." Journal of Family Violence, v. 20, no. 6 (December 2005) p. 363-71
Click the SULinks button
In the new window, click on one of the Go buttons next to the specific citation details for your article. Look at the different ways the 3 sources provide access to this article.
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#5 in the results list:
"Gender, power, and violence: assessing the family stereotypes ..." Journal of Family Psychology, v. 14 no. 4 (December 2000) p. 600-12
Click the SULinks button
In the new window, click the Go button next to SUMMIt. SULinks will execute a search in SUMMIT for the journal title.
View the SUMMIT record to see if the library has the volume and issue your article is in. Note the library location and call number.
SUMMIT Catalog
SUMMIT is a catalog of the books, journals, maps, sound recordings, microforms, government documents, and other materials in the SU Library, the Law Library, and Moon Library at the SUNY ESF.
What is NOT in SUMMIT?
SUMMIT does not provide access to the contents of journals. Abby will show you more about finding articles on a topic using some databases in a few minutes.
There are different ways to use SUMMIT –
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Searching a Topic in SUMMIT
There are a couple of ways to search for materials on the Basic Search screen. The default search is Keyword Anywhere. There is another keyword search option, Keywords Combined. In addition you can search by Subject Heading.
How are subject heading searches different from keyword searches? Which is better?
Keyword searches look for occurrences of your term(s) in the entire record, so you usually get more results, but sometimes irrelevant ones. Keyword searching can be like dragnet fishing – you may get a lot of tuna, but you’ll also catch a lot of dolphins and other fish you don’t want and then have to sift through and throw away to get to the tuna.
Subject searches have a better chance of pinpointing items that are more directly about your topic. But there is definitely a place for both kinds of searches. For example, if there isn’t much written on your topic, or if at first you don’t know the “official” subject headings to use, then starting with keywords and playing around a little can bring you to some useful items, and then you can see what subject terms are used in those good items that you found.
Also, if you know about, or find by searching, one item that is right on target, use the hyper-linked subject terms in that record to do a search for all items that have that subject heading in the record.
The Advanced Search screen provides more options for combining multiple terms with AND, OR, and NOT.
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Do a basic search on Discrimination (keyword anywhere)
Then do a basic search on Discrimination (subject heading)
When you do a subject heading search, you are brought into the subject index. You can look through all the terms under Discrimination, such as these below, and click on a subject heading to retrieve all the records for items that have that subject heading assigned to it: