| 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)
- 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.
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.
psycholog* will search for all forms of the root:
psychology
psychologist
psychological
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.