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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