Carrying out a broad search in UWA OneSearch is a good way to identify core sources.OneSearch is the main UWA Library catalogue collating all content across a range of resources.

Use OR to search for similar termsUse AND to join distinct concepts togetherRefine and use available limits Follow leads and citation trailsUse eShelf, a personal folder and saved search area

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UWA’s OneSearch

Use the Advanced Search in OneSearchto begin to build your search string

Think about how you combine your similar terms with OR and unique concepts with AND together with your use of punctuation to help control how the search is run.

Tip: If you do not get enough results then reduce the number of search terms used; conversely, if you get too many results increase the number of search terms used.

Limit by resource typeEg. Newspaper articles and reviews may be more topical

View only Peer Reviewed

Explore by subject area

View only current

publications

Found a good paper? Identify others papers that refer to it.

Spend time reviewing your Search Results

Managing your Search Results

Any limits you add will show on the top of your search results.

Use the “X” to remove them again.

Sign in using your Pheme credentials to add any items to a permanent folder in your e-shelf.

(Located top RH corner of OneSearch)

Clicking on the star next to the item will colour it in and automatically add it to your folder.

Click on Save Query at the bottom of your limits listing (LH menu) to add it to your

e-Shelf.

The Details tab of a item may suggest

other subject terms you can also try.

The View Online tab will link you to the database platforms that hold the full-text of this article.

Tip: Jumping out to a database through OneSearch identifies you as a UWA student and ensures full access to subscriptions purchased for you.

Always sign into OneSearch, especially from home, to make sure you get the

fullest level of access.

Follow good leadsCitations – will identify references used to write a given paper

Cited by – will identify other people who have cited the paper.

Citations Cited by

Working with your results

Extending your Search Results

Although our original search had 163 results, only 10 were indexed with the subject term “Sex Preselection”

Further down on the Limits LH pane you will find these other suggested subject searches.

Clicking on “Sex Preselection” runs a search of all items indexed with this subject term in OneSearch.

This search identifies 996 results.

You can either use the limits to further explore these or

Add more search terms to the search fields as keywords or

subject terms:Try:

Sex selected abortion Sex ratio

Gender discrimination