The specific database I chose was JSTOR by going to the St.Cloud Library website and browsed through the Databases A-Z and just chose one that looked good.
I found that Academic Research Premier brought more relevant results for my topic.
You can narrow your search in Academic Search Premier by being able to chose document types, language, scholarly journals, full-text date range ad cover story. Though in JSTOR you can chose date range, language, publication title and article type.
My search string worked the first time.
I Academic Search Premier I found 324 results with most of them being relevant to my research and with JSTOR I found 2,456 results and they seemed to be relevant also to the ones I looked into.
All my articles were available in full text because I clicked that box to narrow how many results I got in Academic Search Premier.
My search string question has changed many times because, some of the keywords you use will get you a lot of results and sometimes not many. Changing it multiple times I think I now have a good search string to work with and it has gotten better every time.
The hardest thing for me is figuring out what to use for my search string and trying to figure out what i actually want to know about my population. I am still figuring it out as I go and am getting closer to what I need.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Search String
Posted by Livvie at 1:40 PM
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Hi Livvie,
Thank you for your post on JSTOR and Academic Search Premier. I am glad to hear that you have constructed a successful search string that yields relevant results in most databases. What is the search string?
Please let me know if you have any questions during the research process...
Sincerely,
Professor Wexelbaum
Hi Livvie,
Thank you for your post about the Academic Search Premier and JSTOR comparison. I believe that you are getting the hang of database searching!
What was your search string?
Sincerely,
Professor Wexelbaum
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