• Search Statements - Finding Search Terms
  Example Search Statement
   
• Analyzing the information you need
  What Do You need to Know
   
• Viewing your Topic through a Discipline in the:  Humanities / Social Science  / Sciences
  - Disciplines
   
• Research Material Resources   [OFF_CAMPUS ACCESS-PASSWORD or VPN to databases]
     1. Reference Materials - Subject Encyclopedias, Basic background information
     2. Online Catalog: Books, Journal Holdings, Maps, Videos, Software, etc.  - primary sources, scholarly   sources, and general sources
     3. Full text Journal and Newspaper Databases  - primary sources, scholarly sources, and general sources
    
• Finding out  if/where the library has your journal article
  SMC [Online Catalog]
  Electronic Journals- A to Z list of full text periodicals available in SMC Library
   
• What to do if you can't get your journal articles or books electronically or in the library?
  Interlibrary Loan
  UVM Journal Holdings   .......map to UVM Bailey Howell, Cook and Dana Libraries
   
• Evaluating your sources
  What are Scholarly Peer Reviewed Research Journals (checklist)
  Evaluating Internet Sources     *****example site
  Primary Sources
   
• In- Class Research

Finding Search Terms :Identifying searchable terms a search statement.   Each term can be broken down to synonymous, broader, or narrower terms. as seen below:

Disciplines in the:

Example Topic:  Discrimination of Working Women

1. Reference Materials - Beginning your research

To find a subject encyclopedia in a chosen Discipline, use the Library of Congress Classification letters in your chosen subject or discipline, then browse that area of the Reference Shelves

**Reference Sources: Secondary Source (Can lead you to Primary Sources) -ALS0, Statistical Data

Some Reference Sources the library buys electronically

AccessScience
Published by McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology.  Excellent authoritative science articles authored by experts in their fields.  Includes dictionary and full length articles.

Britannica Online

Other Library Catalogs: UVM,
Available @ http://www2.smcvt.edu/library/resources/catalogs.htm  

WorldCat  The OCLC Online Union Catalog, containing over 50 million records of books, Web resources, and other material owned by libraries worldwide. It is the the world's largest database of bibliographic information, and represents 4,000 years of recorded history.

Searching for Books and Materials in the Library Catalog using Subject and Keyword Searching: [Use the LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings to find subject headings]

**SUBJECT SEARCHING (FOR BOOKS) - possible headings (not exhaustive)

SMC Library Catalog: Available @ http://voyager.smcvt.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First 

***KEYWORD SEARCHING
Keyword allows you to use "natural language" searching &
Boolean Operators (and, or, not) to broaden or narrow your search
Truncation:  allows for variant spelling of word stems (?, *, !)
Phrase searching: Some databases look only for words adjacent to each other.  Some databases require that you put the phrase in quotations ("Sexual Discrimination")  

Truncation symbols for different databases   

I. General Multidisciplinary Databases @ 
http://www2.smcvt.edu/library/articles/alphabetical.htm
All of the databases and indexes below may be reached from this page.  Also, information about accessing databases off-campus is available here.

Databases listed by Subject Discipline

Journals/Periodicals
Academic Search Premier
Excellent source for full text primary scientific journals. The largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,043 journals in the collection     scholarly sources,

Example Search - 
       Discrimination AND women AND (work? OR job? OR career?)

Expanded Academic ASAP
Includes abstracts or references for articles from more than 3,000 scholarly, trade and general-interest publications, as well as references for The New York Times.  Full-text coverage for 1900 titles.  Included are core titles in every major academic concentration, including astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications and the general sciences

Newspapers
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
The LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe database offers full text coverage for news, business, legal and medical information. Sources include newspapers, magazines, wire service news, newsletters, journals, company and industry reports, broadcast transcripts and reference databases.

Ethnic NewsWatch*
A full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic and minority publications. Ethnic NewsWatch contains over 830,000 full-text articles from 240 publications, with dates of coverage beginning 1991+.  ENW is searchable in both English and Spanish.

Take your Topic for your Final Paper and write a search statement that identifies your focus of research

Identify the main terms in your search statement.   Each term can be broken down to synonymous, broader, or narrower terms.

Use the next hour to find the following search materials to further explore your topic:

1. Find a Subject Encyclopedia article that would cover your topic from the viewpoint of a subject discipline - for example  Philosophy, Religion, Ethics, Anthropology, Economics.....

Give  - Discipline _____________________
Give Reference Source Title ______________________
Give Article Title ___________________________________
Give Author of Article __________________
Give LC Call # _______________________________

2. Find a Book using the SMC Online Catalog  that will cover your topic

Give  Book Title ______________________
Give Author of Article __________________
Give Call # _______________________________

***Find the book in the stacks and bring to back to class. 
**** ps- don't forget to browse the books in the location of your call #.  You may find other titles relevant to your topic

3. Find an up-to-date topical Newspaper article on your Topic

Give Newspaper name ____________________________
Give Article Title ___________________________
Give Author Name ___________________________________
Give Database you used to find the article _________________________

4. Get 2 journal articles - one general periodical  /  one scholarly journal

Give Periodical  Name _________________________
Give Article Title ____________________________
Give Author Name ___________________________
Give Database you used to find the article ______________________________________

Give Scholarly Journal Name ______________________________________
Give Article Title _________________________________________
Give Author Name _________________________________________
Give Database you used to find the article _______________________________