Building your Article Search

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Building your Article Search

 

What does that mean?

So your instructor says you need to use peer-reviewed, academic journal articles in your research project.

The good news: library databases are the best way to find peer-reviewed academic journal articles.  ​

Click on the words and image information spots below to better understand the different resources available at the library!

An image of a continuum of material types from popular to scholarly/academic, including magazines or newspapers, trade journals, conference proceedings, journals, and peer-reviewed journals

 

Databases have a language?

AND, OR, NOT = database language. ​

AND, OR, and NOT are special Boolean Logic terms that research databases read in a special way.  You will use them to combine your main ideas/keywords. ​

Phrase searching = database language​

Put quotes " " around a phrase of two or more words and your results will include that exact phrase.​

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Getting Started