Using CSA databases (e.g. ComDisDome, LLBA, Life Sciences)

AND connects keywords:

• children’s voice disorders will only retrieve records that contain those three words immediately next to each other, in that order.
• voice disorders and children will retrieve all records in which the phrase speech disorders and the word children appear.

OR allows you to search for similar ideas: speech disorders or voice disorders. To use OR, click on the down arrow next to and.

Use * to search for variations on a root word: child* gets child, child's, childhood, children, children’s.

Multidatabase v. individual database searches:
To select multiple databases, click on Specific Databases

• Benefits of multidatabase searching: It’s quicker, the results are broader, it provides a multidisciplinary overview of your topic.
• Benefits of individual database searching: It’s more targeted, fewer results but more in-depth depth, it allows use of thesaurus/specialized headings for that discipline.

Journal Articles Only: Clicking in the box will eliminate other kinds of materials, like book chapters.

Peer-Reviewed Journals: Clicking on this tab will eliminate results that appear in journals that are not peer-reviewed (e.g. trade journals).

Descriptors: Clicking on a descriptor will change your search and show you all the records that use the descriptor as a keyword. The descriptor list can also be used for brainstorming—they can help you rephrase a search for more targeted results.

Select items to email, save, print, or export by clicking in the box next to each record.

Parts of the citation:

To mark items you want to save, email, or export click in the box to the left of the item record.

When you’ve marked all the records you want, click on the Save, Print, Email link or the RefWorks icon.

Select a bibliographic style format from the pull-down menu.

Select email, save, print or export to RefWorks.