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HECG 100: Science and Society: Database Searching

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Finding Articles

Periodical databases are available by selecting the Databases link on the Library's homepage.

Don’t forget to select the “Full Text” option and/or to limit your results by publication date.

Academic Search CompleteJSTOR, and Nexis Uni are large multidisiplinary databases that are suitable for research on many topics.

***Your Cabrini network username and password are used to access periodical databases from off-campus.  Please contact ITR (610-902-8366) if you have any problems connecting to the databases.***

Keywords

Thesis vs Thesis Statement vs Research Question

NOTE ON DATABASE SUPPLIED CITATIONS

Though the citations in the databases are USUALLY correct, they are not error-proof.

Please double check any citations that you receive or copy from a database against your  manual or the library's citation guides.

Boolean Searching

No Operator Searches words together as a phrase in the exact order in which you have typed them.
AND Retrieves records containing both or all of the search terms joined by AND; the middle sliver of a Venn Diagram.
OR Retrieves records containing either or any of the search terms joined by OR; everything included in a Venn Diagram
NOT Retrieves records that do not contain a specific term.
( )

Groups words together so that you can relate phrases by operators or layer your operators. For example:

(feminist or feminism) AND (literary (theory or criticism))

Just like high school algebra, parentheses must be in pairs, and the inner-most pair is worked first.

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