English 1B: Girls, Misunderstood? Summer 2020: "Start Your Search"

UC Library Search includes books, articles and more.

• Books and eBooks from:
  • HathiTrust
  • Dozens of eBook databases
• Articles from journals, magazines and newspapers, including article content from:
  • Over forty EBSCOHost databases
  • JSTOR
  • Web of Science (and other ISI Web of Knowledge databases)
  • Project MUSE
  • Readex/NewsBank databases
  • MLA International Bibliography
  • and many, many more!
• Online encyclopedias and dictionaries from a variety of vendors such as:
  • Oxford University Press
  • Gale

Are there filters in the left sidebar that will help you narrow your search results?  Click on the category ("language" "geography") to view the options.

When you encounter any kind of source, consider:

1. Authority - Who is the author? What is their point of view? 
2. Purpose - Why was the source created? Who is the intended audience?
3. Publication & format - Where was it published? In what medium?
4. Relevance - How is it relevant to your research? What is its scope?
5. Date of publication - When was it written? Has it been updated?
6. Documentation - Did they cite their sources? Who did they cite?

1.  keyword search; phrase search,  limiting to scholarly articles

(keywords) .   "yellow wallpaper"
                       "to room nineteen"

quotes keep two or more words together

limit to scholarly articles (checkbox on the left) (note:  very current topics may have few scholarly articles as of yet)

2.  wildcard

(keywords) . madness domestic*

child* = child childs children childish childhood...

3.  narrowing a search with additional terms

     "yellow wallpaper" gilman
      madness domestic* litera*
      madness domestic* novel*

4.  alternative terms; use broad subject categories

    women hysteria* litera*

    still a lot of irrelevant results...

     go to the filters in the left column, click on subject, click on "show more" and check off "criticism"  and any other category that seems literary (don't bother with book reviews though)