Library Tools &Search Strategies

Lindsay DavisFaculty Librarian

Objectives Access Evaluation Search strategies Finding a case or article Finding books/eBooks

Access

Google Scholar example

Asks you to pay, but don’t! Check to see if we have it in Publication finder in EBSCOhost.

We can order it from somewhere else if we don’t have access to it.

Evaluation

Keywords Break down your research questions into

the most important nouns Write down synonyms & related words Use different combinations

and OR or *stem searching quotes

Subject terms Think of these like hashtags for

categories Click on them to find other items with the

same subject terms

Finding a print book or eBook

Online catalog Print books & eBooks eBook links don’t always work off campus

Go to the specific eBook collection (see below)

Databases by subject electronic books

Finding a case or article LexisNexis Academic Universe: legal Opposing Viewpoints: current social

issues Ethnic NewsWatch: people of color EBSCOhost: different collections with

different subjects Literature Resource Center: literature