Library Summer Science Bioethics
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Concept mapping / narrowing or broadening your search
Where to search?
The Googles vs. Google Scholar vs Discover vs subject databases vs the Five Colleges catalog
Which databases?
check the research guides for recommendations
Philosophy: philpapers.org, Philosopher's Index
Medical: PubMed, ScienceDirect
Other: Academic Search Premier, Social Services Abstracts
What to Search?
keywords
one concept per box: kids OR children OR infants
* = truncation
"quotation marks" keep concepts together
iterate!
then look for subject headings in records
How to Get It?
look for an article (is there an AC Links button? do we have access? do you need ILL?)
look for a book
ask for a purchase
check for references
check your article or book in Google Scholar for sources that cite it