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CCNY LIRARIES
INTRODUCTION
TO
PROFESSOR SARAH COHN
REFERENCE & INSTRUCTION LIBRARIAN
October 28, 2022
AGENDA
Database review
Search terms
Search strategies
Getting help
TODAY'S
DATABASES
LIBRARY
library.ccny.cuny.edu
OneSearch box
Databases link
- Access to all 300+ databases at CCNY
- Alphabetical or sort by subject
- Log in with your CityMail info
- Simple search bar option
- Meta-search
- Searches multiple databases at once
- Print books, ebooks, articles
- Log in with your CUNY single login info
but not all of them!
PsycInfo
Literature Resource Center
OneSearch
Academic Search Complete
Subject Specific
Multi-Disciplinary
TERMS
SEARCH
AKA KEYWORDS
what is your main topic?
what are the specifics?
combining different terms = different results
what are different ways to describe your ideas?
STRATEGIES
SEARCH
use AND to connect terms
the yellow wallpaper AND depression
use OR to connect synonyms
depression OR madness AND the yellow wallpaper AND women's health
use "..." for phrases or names
"mental illness"
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
"Charlotte Perkins Gilman"
HELP
GETTING
Professor Sarah Cohn
Reference & Instruction Librarian
scohn@ccny.cuny.edu
Reference Desk
Monday-Thursday 10am-6pm
Friday 10am-2pm
library.ccny.cuny.edu/researchtoolkit
TYPES
SOURCE
Scholarly
- Industry or field news
- Written by practitioners/those working in the field
- For other practitioners/those working in the field
- Great for finding out current news, debates, issues in a specific industry or field
Popular
Trade
- Newspapers and magazines
- Written by journalists
- For everyone
- Academic, Scholarly, Peer Reviewed journal articles
- Written by academics/researchers
- For other academics/researchers
- Original research, theories, findings
- Deep knowledge of the topic
Hancock FIQWS Fall 22
By Sarah Cohn
Hancock FIQWS Fall 22
Fall 2022: Hancock FIQWS Subject
