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ENG 3530 - Young Adult Literature: Finding Sources

Course guide for ENG 3530 Young Adult Literature.

Find Articles: Best Bets

Database Search Strategies

Boolean Operators

Use Boolean Operators as a way to narrow or broaden your search:

AND: use to combine different concepts or keywords; each result will contain all search terms

Example: race AND libraries

OR: use to connect similar concepts or keywords; each result will contain at least one of the search terms

Example: medicine OR health

NOT: use to exclude words or concepts; tells the database to ignore concepts implied by your search

Example: technology NOT database

Parentheses ( ): place around related terms to search for more than one group of keywords

Example: (teaching OR education) AND race

 Asterisk *: use at the end of a keyword to search words that start with the same letters

Example: education AND librar*

Articles: finding the full text of an article when you have the citation

How would you find the full text for the following citation?  This happens most frequently when you look in the footnotes or bibliography of an article--this is a great way to find other sources on your topic as well.

Cole, Richard. "When Gods Become Bureaucrats." Harvard Theological Review 113, no. 2 (April 8, 2020): 186-209.

  1. Go to the library home page.
  2. Using quotation marks, type your article title ("When Gods Become Bureaucrats."in the box. Do not type your journal title in the box.
  3. If Wright State University owns the access rights to the article you will see a direct link to the pdf.  You might also see a yellow  "Find It" button below the title.  When viewing the bibliographic record the "Find It" button may be on the left side of the page.  If Wright State University owns the rights in another subscription database there will be a link in the pop-up window to the full-full text
  4. If Wright State University does not own access rights to the article you want, you will be presented with an Interlibrary Loan option as the last link.  Please take advantage of this option for your research needs.

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