Always think about different ways to say the same thing. Start with keywords to describe your topic, within results, read the abstract and look at the subject headings to identify additional keywords to use and revise the search (if needed).
Retrieve too many results? Limit to scholarly articles, limit words to subject
Search Strategies:
Start with keywords (place phrases in quotes), use connectors (or / and) and look for the subject headings specific to each database.
place phrases in quotes so the whole phrase will be searched together and not the words individually
"national identity"
"middle east"
"political radicalism"
"low income"
"terrorist groups"
"terrorist organizations"
"Bolo Haram"
"psychological aspects"
"Lord’s Resistance Army"
| terrorist* = terrorist or terrorists | threat* = threat or threats | |
| terroris* = terrorism or terrorist or terrorists | factor* = factor or factors | |
| psycholog* = psychology or psychological | motivat* = motivate or motivates or motivating or motivator or motivational | |
| emotion* = emotion or emotions | factor* = factor or factors | |
| female* = female or females | child* = child or children or children's | |
| martyr* = martyr or martyr's or martyrdom | religio* = religion or religious |
use - or - to connect synonyms or like concepts
any of the words can be present
factor* or reason* or motive* or psycholog*
socioeconomic or poverty or "low income" or unemployment
nationalism or "nationalist identity"
female* or women or woman
motivation or engagement or participation
spirituality or religion or theology
use - and - to connect concepts
all terms must be included
terroris* and (factor* or reason* or motivat*) and socioeconomic
terroris* and motivat* and suicide
terroris* and (female* or women or women) and suicide
terroris* and (motivat* or engagement or participation) and religion
"Lord’s Resistance Army" and motivat*
In addition, you can search by a known author. Or follow the author link for additional works.
