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Global Issues - GLBS 225 - Andrews

Databases covering a wide range of subject areas:
Subject-Specific Databases (Think about PESTLE!)

This 3-minute video provides a review of the tools that make searching faster and more powerful.

Video by Sarah Clark and licensed under a CC BY license.

Too many results?

  • Use more specific terms: "wage gap" instead of inequality
     
  • Use phrase searching with quotation marks: "wage gap" instead of wage gap
     
  • Use field searching: try searching in the title field or the keyword field
     
  • Use the Boolean "AND": gender AND wages
     
  • Use the Boolean "NOT": Wales NOT Australia for articles about the country of Wales that exclude results from Australia's New South Wales
     
  • Limit by date: More recent works are more likely to be relevant and accurate
     
  • Limit to full-text, in our collection

Too few results?

  • Use broader terms: women may return more results than girls does.
     
  • Use more accurate terms: female OR wom*n instead of girl
     
  • Truncate terms using the asterisk (*) econom* will return results that include economy, economies, economical, economist, economists...
     
  • Try another database
     
  • Use the Boolean "OR": Asia OR China OR Mongolia
     
  • Use subject headings of one good source to link to others
     
  • Follow-up on citations from one good source: that's one reason why scholars list their sources!

You can request journal articles from an EbscoHost database, a ProQuest database, or through a form.

From an EbscoHost database:

  • Click on the detailed record for the article.
  • Click on the link “Request document via interlibrary loan” and complete the form.

From ProQuest One Business:

  • Click on the detailed record for the article
  • Click on "Request this item" and complete the form.

Otherwise, please fill out the interlibrary loan form below.

Questions? Contact Abigail DeWeese at 618.374.5072 or abigail.deweese@principia.edu

Google Scholar Search

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Open Google Scholar > Settings

In Settings > Select Library Links

Type Principia to see all the options > Check All Three

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