User Experience Strategist
Search Exercise
Try out your search strategy with one of the resources below!
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull text back files of scholarly journals primarily in the humanities, socials sciences, & sciences as well as ebooks, primary sources, and image collections across multiple disciplines. The Amherst College Library provides Alumni Access to JSTOR.
- Historical Abstracts with Full Text (1955 to present) This link opens in a new windowCore database for scholarly literature about world history since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada).
- Discover: Start here for books, articles & more This link opens in a new windowSimultaneously search research databases plus the Five Colleges Libraries Catalog to find full-text articles, books, and more.
Google Jamboard Report Out
Add virtual sticky notes to your group section in Google Jamboard to answer the following prompts:
- post your search strategy (if you tried multiple strategies, post them all!)
- what types of results did you get? are they current? historical?
- what keywords, names, or events came up in your results?
Search Tips
FYS Research Starter Worksheet (you can make a copy for yourself!)
Too many results or irrelevant results
Use AND between your key concepts to narrow your search
Too few results
Use OR between your synonyms to broaden your search
Too many results with irrelevant concepts/keywords
Use NOT in front of terms that you do NOT want to show up in your results