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Finding articles on a topic
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Where to look? Google
Fast and easy Hard to pick through questionable sources.
Library Databases – (all the online and print sources the library pays for) Magazines, Scholarly journals, and
Newspapers Easy to find credible sources!
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JMU Libraries
Find articles
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General Databases – Good place to start!
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Subject databases
Library has nearly 400 databases
Choose a subject area
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State your topic and identify the main concepts:
Topic: The effect of peer pressure on smoking among adolescents
Main Concepts peer pressure smoking adolescents
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Search for your main terms:
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Didn’t find enough?
peer pressure
peer relations
peer influence
adolescents teenagers youth high school
students adolescence
smoking Tobacco
Generate a list of synonyms:
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Broaden your search:
* will pick up any ending
Use synonyms and truncation (*):
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Too many hits? Focus search by limiting to a specific
field:
Narrow your search!
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Select an article:
Find the article online or in the library
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Link to the full text:
Link to full text of article or journal
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