• Who is a scholar and what do they do?
• How does a scholar share findings?
• Scholarship as a conversation

Benefits

• Get up to speed quickly on a topic
• Deepen but also broaden your sense of a topic
• Learn new jargon and buzzwords that will help with searches

Best places to do background reading

Gale eBooks (database we subscribe to)

Also consider

• Introduction and literature review sections of scholarly journal articles

Use OneSearch

Search Tips

1. Quote marks around phrases = more precise results

2. Type AND in all caps between concepts

3. "Filter" your search results by resource type, date, and more. Use the "Limit to" option for "Peer Reviewed Journals" to get just scholarly journal articles.

4. Use "Advanced Search" mode for greater control

Identifying Resource Types in Search Results

After you use the search box for OneSearch on the library home page, you see results that include different kinds of resources. Above the title of each item (in blue) is a label identifying the resource type

• ARTICLE
  • if there's a "PEER REVIEWED" label on that listing, the article came from a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal
  • if there's no label, the article is from a newspaper or magazine
• BOOK
  • If there is a green "Available Online" link in the listing, that's an ebook
  • If there is no green "Available Online link, that's a print book
• BOOK CHAPTER
  • Chapter from an ebook
• REFERENCE ENTRY
  • entries from encyclopedias and dictionaries

How To

Citation Generators

How To

Citation Generators

This tab was originally created by Stephen Francoeur for Prof. Golob's Spring 2022 POL 4900 class.