Finding Articles Tutorials
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Tips for Searching Databases
When searching in the databases for articles the following tips may help you.
* This is the truncation symbol, it searches for variations of your term. For example: teach* will return: teaches, teacher, teachers, teaching
AND - Use the word AND when you want to combine search terms (this will reduce the number of items found). For example: repeated reading AND fluency will find articles that discuss repeated reading and fluency.
OR - Use the word OR when you are searching for a topic that may have different names (this will expand the number of items found). For example: reading aloud OR oral reading will find articles with any of these words.
NOT - Use the word NOT when you want to exclude certain terms from your results. For example: qualitative NOT mixed methods will find articles that talk about qualitative research but exclude any that are mixed methods.
Find Articles Using Library Databases
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Academic Search CompleteAcademic Search Complete offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
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EBSCO's Religion and Philosophy CollectionEBSCO's Religion & Philosophy Collection includes more than 300 full-text journals covering topics such as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy, and the history of philosophy.
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ProQuest CentralProQuest Central brings together 30 highly used ProQuest databases to create the largest single academic research resource.
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Theological Journal LibraryTheological Journal Library database is a tremendous electronic resource for Biblical studies. TJL collection includes the best conservative, scholarly and evangelical journals from more than a dozen schools of theology. Don’t miss our Theological Journal Library collection. While our oneSEARCH contains information from most of the library’s databases, TJL is not included in oneSEARCH.
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