HOW TO BEA SUPERSEARCHER

THESIX STEPMETHOD

DEFINEYOURTOPIC

ONE:

TWO:PULL

KEYWORDSFROM YOUR

TOPIC QUESTION

AND

BRAINSTORMSYNONYMS

FOR THOSE WORDS

THREE:

SEARCH INRESEARCHDATABASES

ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE PSYCINFO

LEXISNEXIS

LIKE:

FIND THEM IN THERESEARCH GUIDES

OR IN GALILEO

FOUR:

USEBOOLEAN

OPERATORS

BRAINSTORMSYNONYMS

FOR THOSE WORDS

A OR B

A AND B

A NOT B

FIVE:

USESUBJECT

HEADINGS

SUBJECT HEADINGS ARE A SET LIST OF KEYWORDS THAT DESCRIBE A TOPIC

WITHIN A DATABASE.

THESAURUSSUBJECTS

IT’S LIKETAGGING.

ONLY BETTER.

THESAURUSSUBJECTS

LOOK FOR:

SIX:USE FOOTNOTE

CHASING &CITED REFERENCE

SEARCHING

FOOTNOTECHASING IS:

FINDING ARTICLESBY LOOKING AT

THE REFERENCES OFRELEVANT ARTICLES

CITED REFERENCESEARCHING IS:

FINDING WHOHAS CITEDRELEVANTARTICLES

GOOGLE SCHOLARWILEY ONLINE LIBRARY

LOOK FOR "CITED BY" LINKUNDER THE ARTICLE TITLE

& AUTHOR INFO

ASK YOUR LIBRARIAN!westga.edu/library

libguides.westga.edu

OR CHECK YOUR SUBJECT'SRESEARCH GUIDE

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This presentation has been modified from the GVSU presentation posted by Abby Bedford athttp://www.slideshare.net/bedforda/how-to-be-a-supersearcher-general