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The First Search Databases
Busse Library has access to numerous periodical indexes, full text databases and other resources from OCLC FirstSearch and other vendors. You will find the most frequently needed FirstSearch databases linked on our Periodical Indexes and Other Databases webpage. These tips will assist you in using the FirstSearch resources more effectively. When you encounter a FirstSearch resource, the opening page accessed through Busse Library will be headed OCLC FirstSearch Advanced Search. This allows you to look for and combine terms in up to three fields in a record. The dropdown menus to the right of the search area are used to select the fields. It also allows you to use the logical operators: and, or, and not from the dropdown menus on the left. See MMC Note # 30 for an explanation of logical operators. You may also make other choices, such as year, for some databases. Several databases have special features. In ERIC you may select to search by document type: "All" (documents and journals), "Document" or "Journal". Select "Journal" for only journal citations. WilsonSelectPlus allows the choice of several record types including "book review". In PsycInfo you may select among their document types, including limiting to "journal article" or "book". MLA includes "journal" and "book" among its document types. CINAHL has two types: "journal" and "non-journal". Check the limit possibilities for each database you use. Searching You are reminded to plan your search strategy to use synonyms as well as the desired term(s) or concept(s) when searching. Remember language and jargon evolve and what may be the common term at one time may differ before and after that time. When you find an appropriate resource, see what associated terms are used by the authors and use those to continue your search. To find both singular and plural forms of a word, key in the singular form followed by a + sign, e.g., horse+ . To find an exact phrase, surround it with quotation marks, e.g., "guard dogs and horse riders". This is the title of an article. To find variants of a word, use the wild card symbol *, e.g. wom*n will find women and woman in records and dog* will find dog, dogs, doggerel. List of Records Interlibrary Loan Marking Records Printing Individual Records or Full Text Files E-mailing Information Other Features
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at the end
of the record. There may also be links to full text files of the information. Click on an
article title to get the full record. The descriptors or subject headings at the
bottom of the record will link you to other items with the same descriptors. 
to start the
process. You will be contacted when the item arrives at Busse Library. If you want to see if a nearby library owns an item
so you may use it there, click on the Libraries that own item
link at the top of record.
on the
Marked Records page to reformat it for printing. Now click on File and Print to print to
the networked printer or local attached to your machine.
and
complete the form. We recommend that you send information as plain text and not
as html which some e-mail packages cannot handle.