SOC 144 Introduction to Sociology R. Riehm: Articles

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Once you develop your search strategy and terms and you have selected a database to search, use the search limits and search modifiers to save time and effort.

For example, the majority of database search interfaces allow you to:

• limit results to scholarly/academic/peer-reviewed journals

• limit results to "articles" => Note: Many scholarly journals include book reviews - this limit eliminates these from the results

• Use truncation symbols to return similar words:  * is often used, for example:  cultur*  will return culture, cultures, cultural, etc.

• Employ phrase searching.  Used quotation marks to return exact phrases.  For example:  "hog fry"

• Search the full text of the article.  For some topics, it may be useful to search the entire article for your keywords.  In some databases you may select this as a search option.

Also, use "Find It" in the event that you locate a record for an article that does not have the full text.  Find it may lead you to the article in another database, or at the least, you may request a copy from another library via our Interlibrary Loan service.

The following databases will provide you with articles from sociology and anthropology journals. 

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View the YouTube video below to help you understand the difference between scholarly and popular publications. This video was produced by Georgia State University Library.