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COMM 3100 -- Gilbert

Links and Sources to help you on your research assignments

Chemistry/ Chemical Engineering/Communications & JournalismLibrarian

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Isabel Altamirano
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Contact:
231 Mell St.
Auburn, AL 36849
Student Question/Office Hour - Mondays, noon to 1 p.m. Library Help Desk personnel can call me. I will meet you at the Desk.

Tips: Searching

  1. Searching is not case sensitive EXCEPT for the Boolean Operators of AND, OR, and NOT
    • academic OR nonprofit
  2. Use relevant terminology
    • While "wolf" as a search term may work, "canis lupus" will give more precise results
  3. Google Scholar automatically ANDs words together
    • nonprofit centers institutionalization
  4. Double quotations marks can be used for phrases
    • ​​​​​​​"canis lupus"
    • "(academic OR nonprofit) centers" 
  5. The asterisk (*) does not work as a truncation symbol.  Google Scholar uses automatic stemming
    • ​​​​​​​institution can also bring up institutions, institutionalize, institutionalization...
  6. The Advanced Search is under the three parallel lines in the upper right

 

Navigating the Results: Tips

  1. This is one reason why you turned on the libraries in the settings -- direct links to the articles, or the ability to search our article linker.
    • Tip: If there is no article linker use the Cite link (the double quotation symbol) to cut and paste into the libraries' Discovery service, or to search on regular Google.
  2. If the author is underlined, they have a Google Scholar Profile page.
  3. This section lets you save material to My Library, find related articles, and find newer research through the Cited By or Web of Science links