Search by keywords/small phrases and use Boolean searching.
AND: reading AND motivat*
OR: "phonemic awareness" OR "phonological awareness"
Use "quotation marks" to search for whole phrases > "athletic training"
Use the database’s built in limiting features, like Date and Peer-Review.
Consider truncation. The symbol used is usually *. ATHLET* will retrieve: athlete, athletic, athletics, etc.
Check Subject terms to see if there are any synonym terms to consider.
Try Start Your Research first! Search results can be limited by Material Type and Peer Review.
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Education journals and documents (research reports, evaluation studies, curriculum guides & lesson plans collected by the U.S. Dept. of Education). 1966 to present.
Google Scholar can be a useful tool when collecting research information.
Consider the features in Settings to make it work better with your research:
â–ºLibrary Links - FindIt@TxState
â–ºBibliography Manager - set this EndNote (which is referring to the desktop version).
Many library databases allow searches to be limited to articles published in Peer-Reviewed journals, but this filter is not available in Google Scholar. Consult Ulrich's to find out if a journal is considered Refereed/Peer-Reviewed by searching the title of the journal.
This is a browser extension - if you find an article on the web, it will bring you to the full-text through TXST Libraries. This tool can also help with alerting you to journals considered "Problematic" (potentially predatory).