Complete the following steps:
This page builds on the OneSearch Basics module in the in the Library Research Tutorials Canvas course
Scholarly Journal Articles ()
Magazine Articles
Newspaper Articles
You can filter your results in OneSearch to "Scholarly Journals" in the "Refine Results" menu on the left. This will only give you results that are from academic journals.
Look for in your results
Scholarly journal articles can be very challenging, especially if you're new to them. These sources give some ideas on how to tackle a scholarly journal article.
Use the search tips below to improve your results:
General Search Tips:
Quotation marks: Use these around your keywords for an “exact search”. This tool will give you specific (aka fewer) results because it searches for your keywords exactly as you’ve entered them.
EXAMPLE:
"day care"
"car pool"
"social media"
EXAMPLE:
manag* = manage, managing, managed
happ* = happy, happiness
reduc* = reduce, reduced, reduction
OneSearch Search: putting it all together
EXAMPLE starting sub-topic: depiction of minorities in media
Search in OneSearch: (minorit* OR "people of color") (media OR television) depict*
OneSearch is exactly what its name implies: one place to search for many different kinds of sources -- including books, eBooks, scholarly articles, news articles, videos, and more!