| Google Scholar
Google Scholar can be a useful tool when collecting research information. Settings can be updated to display:
Library Links - FindIt@Txstate
Bibliography Manager - EndNote (refers to Desktop EndNote)
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Ulrich'sTo find out if a journal is considered Refereed/Peer-Reviewed, check the Ulrich's database by doing a search for the title of the journal. Many library databases allow searches to be limited to articles published in Peer-Reviewed journals.
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).
Search Strategies
Search by keywords and phrases. Maximize your keyword searches with Boolean searching:
| AND | internet AND teenagers | all words must appear in the result list |
| OR | teenagers OR adolescents | either word may appear in the results |
| NOT | "social media" NOT facebook | must mention the phrase "social media", but excludes items with the term facebook |
Phrase Searching: use "quotation marks" to search for phrases.
Truncation: the asterisk (*) symbol is used most often in library databases.
legislat* will search for all forms of the root:
legislate
legislature
legislative
Review Subject terms. Those are listed in the databases and records of citations in search results. These can be useful for learning the preferred vocabulary of a discipline.