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French Studies – Undergraduates

French Studies – Undergraduates. Researching Your Assessed Essay (Tutorial 1: Using e-journal collections). What this tutorial will offer. Where to find e-journal collections How to improve your searching within the collections to find useful full-text articles.

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French Studies – Undergraduates

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  1. French Studies – Undergraduates • Researching Your Assessed Essay • (Tutorial 1: Using e-journal collections)

  2. What this tutorial will offer... • Where to find e-journal collections • How to improve your searching within the collections to find useful full-text articles

  3. Go to Resources to find material on your subject

  4. From the Subjects menu click here

  5. You can now open a page offering some important full-text collections and databases

  6. Here are two good e-journal collections, JSTOR (an archive) and ProjectMuse for current issues

  7. If searching for essay material, it’s best to go to Advanced.

  8. You are given a set of field-options which will help you to focus your search more

  9. For this search, the 2 main terms go in title, with the special aspect in full-text

  10. This produces one result. Click on the title.

  11. Check the relevance of your results by seeing how your key terms occur

  12. Select a page to sample

  13. To broaden the search, “tragedy” is truncated to “trag*” so we can also find “tragedies”, “tragic” etc

  14. We are retrieving both “tragedy” and “tragic”

  15. We have also picked up “tragedies” – let’s open item 3

  16. Click on a page to find where your some key words are

  17. Here are various permutations of your key terms

  18. We now can open Project Muse for current e-journals

  19. Begin searching here

  20. ‘All Fields’ finds terms within texts as well as in headings. ‘All Fields except text’ is limited to headings, abstracts etc. and is usually more relevant except in the case of rare or unusual subject terms. The two settings can be combined. Notice the choice of fields – you can add rows and distribute your terms between fields

  21. It’s helpful to select some additional options here – but use sparingly

  22. This search leaves the fields as they were but brackets some alternatives

  23. Too many results, most not relevant

  24. Notice how your terms are occurring – some are scattered

  25. Now put in quotes to hold the phrase together – and the field narrowed

  26. The tally of results easier to cope with now and should be more relevant

  27. Try narrowing the search even more…

  28. Any relevant results can be tagged

  29. A new search using the more restricted fields

  30. A single result and not too relevant

  31. Here’s another combination of fields

  32. A better result, but still only one

  33. A more inclusive field in the second row, and wider content under “Options”

  34. Some more results appear, one a useful review-article

  35. Tag this result and click to save

  36. Click here to view

  37. Note the various options here

  38. This tutorial should help you to: • Know where to find the best e-journal collections • Feel more at home with JSTOR and Muse • Develop your skill in varying the breadth or focus of your searches

  39. If you are still a bit unsure… • Go through the Tutorial once more • Look carefully at how searches are set out on the screen • Have a go at a live search yourself • Ask for further help • Contact peter.larkin@warwick.ac.uk

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