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Academic Search Complete

Sample Search

Academic Search Complete is an excellent database to start your search for journal articles. This database covers a wide range of subject areas and has access to many full-text journal titles. This demonstration will show how to conduct an Advanced search to locate a scholarly article.

Searching in Academic Search Complete

Left click on the Advanced Search tab
Type “African American” in the first Find box
Type writers in the second box
Type female in the third box

Limit your Search

Left click in the box next to Full Text
Left click in the box next to Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
Left click on the Search button

advanced search for Reviewing Results Page

The results page will display a list of relevant topics based on the subject/search terms that you entered into the Find boxes. This search retrieved 11 articles
You can narrow the search further by selecting one of the subjects listed under the Narrow Results by Subject (located left side of screen)
Left click on Morrison, Toni to see which of these articles is about this particular person

narrow search further by left clicking on Morrison, Toni under the Narrow Results by Subject section on the left side of the results page

The results page now displays information about two articles
To review an articles abstract, left click on the title
To view the entire full-text of an article, left click on PDF Full text link located on a the article you wish to view
For this demonstration, left click on the title “A direction of one’s own”

detailed description of an article including the abstract

Above is the full display of “A direction of one’s own”: Alienation in “Mrs. Dalloway”. There are many important areas to become familiar with when looking at this display.

Print, Email, Save does exactly what the icon is titled
PDF Full Text, displays the full-text of the article where you can read it, save it, or print the article
Subject Terms, these are the subject headings that have been assigned to this particular article and left clicking on one them will direct you to all the articles available on a particular subject. For example, if you select *Women authors, you would be directed to all the articles in Academic Search Complete that are about *Women authors
Abstract, gives you a summary of what the article is about. It is recommended that you read the abstract before printing the entire article to get an idea of the content of the article

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