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Romance Languages TA Training (Tolosa-Casadont): Finding Articles

Some Databases to Search

Go to the Libraries Homepage  and then to the right. You can start with the Subject Guides to get an overview on your subject area. You can also search alphabetically. It's probably easier to start with the subject guides.

In addition to looking at the major Education & Psychology databases,  ERIC, Education Research Complete APA PsycInfo, consider your other options. Remember that you can search multiple databases simultaneously within database "families" (EBSCO & ProQuest) by selecting "choose databases" and then clicking OK.

Some general databases to consider for a variety of topics include Academic Research Complete, ProQuest Dissertations & ThesesWeb of Science is another good one for multiple subjects. (See below for more information on Web of Science.)

We have an entire "family" of databases in both the EBSCO and ProQuest collections. You can search more than one database at a time by clicking on "select /choose databases".  Here are a few to get you started (EBSCO)

Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) focuses on the nature and structure of human speech, research in speech sounds, sentence and word structure, meaning in language, spelling, phonetics and the pathology of speech, and hearing.

For Sociology consider SocIndex, Sociological Abstracts and the Sociological Collection

Web of Science only indexes scholarly materials, so you won't have to limit your results to get them. It's heavily tilted toward the "hard" sciences, but is getting increasing coverage for the social sciences as well. One of the cool features of this database is that you can sort your results by "number of times cited". This is great way to discover articles that are heavily used in your field. 

  • Search for author by last name [no comma] first initial [no period] asterisk.  Your search will look like this bergmann c* The asterisk finds variations etc of middle names.
  • As with other databases, use the asterisk to expand your search and
  • combine terms you are willing to interchange by keeping them in the same search box, joining them with OR--stutter* OR fluency
  • On the results page, look to the left and under "Document Types" you may find "Review". A review article is a giant lit review. If it doesn't appear at first, use the "more options" button to see if there are any. This is good way to get a good overview of the lit.

Databases for the K-12 community

eBook K-8 Collection & Middle School  (EBSCOhost)--Find these in the list of databases within EBSCO

Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is the most comprehensive source for PreK-12 and young adult reading materials. A useful way to find children's books dealing with their mental health issues & questions

 Explora Primary and Explora Secondary These two GALILEO databases are for the K-8 crowd. Many items are full-text.

 

 

Don't Buy Journal Articles. Ever.

If a GALILEO database doesn't have the full text of your article, these are your options:

  • The button will lead you to the fulltext in another database.
  • If UGA only has the article in print, distance students can request a free pdf copy.
  • If UGA doesn't own an article in print or online, request a free copy through Interlibrary Loan.

Google Scholar

Another good place to look for materials is in Google Scholar. Use the Libraries' Homepage find the link to Google Scholar. Entering Google Scholar through our page will link you to our holdings.

Remember: If we don't own what you need, TALK TO INTERLIBRARY LOAN. They will track down what you need ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD and get you what you need for free. NEVER PAY FOR LIBRARY MATERIALS UNTIL YOU'VE TALKED TO INTERLIBRARY LOAN. EVER.

Here is a list of some helpful Google Scholar search tips:

  • Use Quotations to search for a phrase: “no child left behind”
  • Use Parentheses to group words to show the relationship between concepts:(chemical warfare) (Syria OR Iraq)
  • Use a hyphen to exclude a word: apple –computer
  • Use a tilde to search for synonyms of a word:  ~stop
  • Use author: to limit your search to results by a specific author: qualitative study author: hawkins
  • Use filetype: to find results with a specific file type: flu vaccine filetype: pdf
  • Use intext: to require a word to appear anywhere in your results: doping “major league baseball”  intext: congress
  • Use allintext: to require multiple words to appear anywhere in your results: allintext: autism vaccine controversy
  • Use intitle: to require a word to appear in the titles of your results: alaska intitle: superfund
  • Use allintitle: to require multiple words to appear in the title of your results: allintitle: Alaska superfund cleanup

Searching for Articles by Methodology

Most databases don't have a direct way to search for journal articles by methodology.  However, a keyword search that combines a methodological term with your topic term(s) is usually effective. For example:

If this retrieves no results, try a broader methodological term:

You can search several relevant methodologies simultaneously by connecting the terms with "OR".  Use an asterisk as a truncation symbol, so you can find all versions of a root word (i.e. theor* finds theory, theories, theoretical, etc.)  For example:

Finding an Article by Citation

f you have a citation in hand, the library homepage can take you to the full text. Here's how:

From the Libraries' Homepage type the JOURNAL TITLE in the  E-Journals by Title search box. ALWAYS search for the title of the JOURNAL and not the article.

The resulting page will tell you if  we have that title electronically,

Click the link to see what is available electronically & where & for what years

But what if you need other years, which may be in print? Go back to GIL and do the advanced search:

You've already seen the information for the online version. Here's the second entry FROM THE GIL CATALOG (NOT THE E-JOURNALS TAB)--

Click on the "Available" link to see what years we IN PRINT. It's quaint, but sometimes just what you need: