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PLCY 100: Foundations of Public Policy (Spring 2021)

Course guide for PLCY 100 (Erica Smith Spring 2021)

Databases: Journals

EbscoHost:
Many of the databases you will use are from the EbscoHost publisher and it is best to search them together to remove duplicate documents.
Everyone can use the Academic Search Ultimate database because it is a multidisciplinary database.
Then, you add additional databases depending on your topic.
Get into the Academic Search Ultimate database and then click on - Choose Databases - to add additional databases. 

EbscoHost choose databases

Ebscohost Adding databases

 


 

Results:
Limiters on the left:
Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals
Academic Journals
Years
Language

Results of the search:
"border security"
and
surveillance

EbscoHost Results Limits

Similar to the EbscoHost databases, if appropriate, search databases together.

Get into one database, click on Change Databases and add.

Proquest search multiple databases

 

Search tips:
Change search field from Anywhere to either
Anywhere except full text
or
Abstract

Proquest databases chagning search field from anywhere to abstracts