Tuesday, February 28, 2012
I choosed PsycINFO which was found below the link education, psychology, recreation and sport.Subject specific database provided more relevant results for my topic. We can narrow down results in Academic Search Premier by using the keywords to find the articles and using the Boolean logics like "and", "or" and truncation"*". We can narrow down the topic in subject specific by the same way as we did in Academic Search Premier by using the Boolean logics and truncations. When I tried to find the resources on my topic, I could not find in the first place so, I started to use other synonym, homosexuality. There I knew that additional synonyms can filter the resorces well and give you more accurate result than before. In Academic Search Premier, I found only two but in subject specific databse I found around 200 articles based on my topic. Of the relevant article that I have found, most of them were available via Findit through other dtatabases. Since working with databases, my research questions had not remained same till now because I am interested to learn about LGBT people and their efforts that have been done till now to give equality to LGBT populations in the society. However I am getting challenges to get reources on the subject matter.
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Hi Anu,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your post on PsycINFO and Academic Search Premier. What was your search string?
What are some of the challenges that you are facing in getting resources? Please let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
Sincerely,
Professor Wexelbaum