Searching the haystack

1. SEARCHING THE
HAYSTACK
RefWorks, Library
Databases, and
Searching for
Scholarly Journal
Articles
Kristen Nebesky
Lawson
September 2015

2. REFWORKS
CI RefWorks
Account:
Username: WelshCI
Password:
gotigers1516

3. “WRITE AND CITE”

4. WHERE WILL YOU LOOK FOR
ARTICLES
1.Online… Google? (good…
maybe)
2.Google Scholar (better)
3.Library Databases (best)

5. GOOGLE SCHOLAR

6. LIBRARY DATABASES
Chris Colthorpe
colthor@clemson.e
du

7. FOUR
TIPS
SEARCH STRATEGIES IN
A DATABASE

8. TIP ONE
Quotation marks
“community outreach”
“senior citizen”
“population health”

9. TIP TWO
Boolean Operators
ear OR nose OR throat
physician NOT “physician assi
“health extension” AND Texas
cancer AND (treatment OR therapy)

10. TIP THREE
Truncation (wildcard)
therapy, therapies, therapeutics --- therap*
mimic, mimics, mimicking --- mimic*
smoke, smoking, smoker, -

11. TIP FOUR
Limits Page (in database)
Publication dates
Languages
Type of article

12. WHERE WILL YOU LOOK FOR
ARTICLES
1.Online… Google? (good…
maybe)
2.Google Scholar (better)
3.Library Databases (best)
Example Search:
health video messages

13. REMEMBER…
http://www.fapl.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Neil-Gaiman-Quote.png
Chris Colthorpe
colthor@clemson.e
du
Kristen Lawson
kmlawso@clemson.e
du