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ANT1CAG: Introductionto library resources

Searching JSTORSeptember 2016

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Example Topic

“Explain how anthropologists have explained witchcraft as a feature of ‘modern’ society”

Each topic has 2 or 3 main concepts/ideas- these are:

E.g. Anthropologists witchcraft ”modern society”

Determine the key concepts or ideas of the topic:

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Think of synonyms and alternate spellings:

Concept 1 Concept 2 Concept 3

anthropologyOR

AND witchcraftOR

AND “modern society”OR

Anthropologist witch modernity

Define your search terms:

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Search tips

Truncation: A truncation symbol added to the end of a term allows you to find word variations or alternative spellings.

• anthropolog* = anthropology, anthropologist, anthropological

Wildcards (use for alternative spellings) are used to substitute a symbol for a single letter (character) of a word

• Wom?n = woman OR women

Phrase searching: This requires terms be searched in the exact order specified within the “quotation marks”.

• “modern society”

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Databases!

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You can access a wide range of databases in your subject area from the library homepage. This is how you can find ‘Anthropology’ databases.

1. From the library homepage, select ‘Databases’

2. From the next page, click on the down arrow next to the ‘Subject area’ box

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Databases!

3. Look for the ‘Humanities & Social Sciences’ heading and select ‘Anthropology’

4. Click on ‘Go’

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Databases!

Here is the list of databases relevant to Anthropology. If you want to know more information about each database, click on the blue button.

5. For this example, use ‘JSTOR’; an archive of scholarly journals predominately from the humanities and social sciences.

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Searching the databases: Using JSTORUsing JSTOR- searching for articles

6. Select ‘Advanced search’

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Searching the databases: Using JSTORUsing JSTOR- searching for articles

7. Look back at the search concepts and add each concept to a search box

8. Where two or more words are used to describe a concept (such as ‘witchcraft’ of ‘witch’) put the terms in brackets separated by OR

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Searching the databases: Using JSTORUsing JSTOR- searching for articles

7. Narrow your search by item type (journal) and date range

8. Use the ‘journal filter’ to restrict your search to just Anthropology journals

9. Click on search

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Searching the databases: Using JSTORUsing JSTOR– finding the full text

10. You can get the full text from here

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Searching the databases: Using JSTOR

Here is the article. Where a pdf version of the article is available, use this, as it will be presented exactly as it looks in print. This will make referencing easier when you are referring to specific page numbers

Thank you

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LibraryASSC – Anthropology

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