Online Journal Library

As a student you will have access to online database, a powerful online full-text journal library accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases from leading information providers. You will be able to access them through the study skills page.

Searching Tips

There are a number of helpful tips and hints you can use to improve your search results. For example, you can use Boolean operators to link search terms together; and/or limit the search to a specific title.

"Boolean Operators"

Sometimes a search can be overly general (results equal too many hits) or overly specific (results equal too few hits). To fine tune your search, you can use AND, OR, and NOT to link your search words together. These words will help you narrow or broaden your search to better express the terms you are looking for and to retrieve the exact information you need quickly.

 Using "AND": If you have a search term that is too general, you can append several terms together using "AND". By stringing key terms together, you can further define your search and reduce the number of results. Note: Unless you define a specific search field, the result list will contain references where all your search terms are located in either the citation, full display or full text.

 For example, type sleep AND walking to find results that refer to both sleep and walking.

 Using "OR": In order to broaden a search, you can link terms together by using the "OR" operator. By using "OR" to link your terms together you can find documents on many topics. Linked by this operator, your words are searched simultaneously and independently of each other.

 As an example, search sleep AND walking OR waking to find results that reference the terms "sleep" and "walking", or the term "waking".

 Using "NOT": In order to narrow a search, you can link words together by using the "NOT" operator. This operator will help you to filter out specific topics you do not wish included as part of your search.

 Type: sleep OR walking NOT waking to find results that contain the terms "sleep" or "walking" but not the term "waking".

 To further define your results, type: sleep AND walking AND waking to constrict the search to include all terms linked by "AND".