SAHE 5387: Research Methods in Student Affairs

Use Boolean logic to search by keywords and phrases:

• AND: "first generation" AND mentor*
• OR: male* OR men

The search boxes get translated into a ( text search string ) that can be read by any database.

( "student* employ*" OR "student personnel worker*" OR "student worker*" or "student workstud*" ) AND mentor* AND ( "professional development" OR "professional learning" OR "professional training" )

Use "quotation marks" to search for whole phrases: "student affairs"

Search results can be limit by Date or Sorted, and also limited to Peer Reviewed

Consider truncation. The symbol used is usually *.

UNIVERSIT* will retrieve: 
universities, university 

Check Subject terms for other words/phrases that may work as synonyms for your topic.

If you come across a citation to an article and you'd like to track down its full text, follow the steps below:

"New faculty transitions and obstacles an auto-ethnographic exploration"

The example below shows that The Journal of Continuing Higher Education is accessible in print/microform as well as online. The entry also shows coverage dates to indicate which years are accessible.