Course Number: RE690Subject: Global Studies, Religion and Culture Research exampleDavis, D. E. (2019). Strong Black Women, Depression, and the Pentecostal Church (Page 23)Database searching tipsRegardless of what you are searching for, or which tools you use, keep in mind the following tips (although be aware that not all databases support each of these options)Develop a research question (powerpoint)Consider terminology, word variations, and synonymsthink about how others might refer to your idease.g, death rituals --> death OR dying OR funeral OR mortuary Tutorial: Using search words effectivelyEmploy various search tacticsSearch Tactics What is the tactic?What does the tactic do?ExamplesBoolean ANDUse AND to ensure that all terms appear in every search result.heterodox AND gnosticBoolean ORUse OR to ensure that at least one term appears in every search result.Tutorial: Better searching using AND, OR, NOT indigenous OR aboriginalPhrase searchingUse “quotation marks” to find more than one term in a row.“islamic law”TruncationUse an asterisk* at the end of a term to include multiple endings. (sometimes $)Tutorial: Better searching using truncationreligio*religion, religions, religious, religiosity, religousnessWildcardUse a question mark ? within a term to search for variations of a single character.decoloni?edecolonize, decoloniseProximityUse NEAR/n to search for terms within n words of each other(sometimes ADJ/n)"music therapy" NEAR/5 child* OR adolescent*Employ search limiters (available limiters depend on the database)peer reviewed, article type, dateIdentify key publications and authorsnote citations, and cited references, repeated author namesDocument and track everything you do in the steps aboveBooks and ebooksTutorial: Finding books in OmniTutorial: Requesting books from other libraries in OmniStart with known titles, e.g., Finch, Martha. Religion, Food, and Eating in North America. Edited by Marie Dallam, Reid Neilson, Nora L Rubel, and Benjamin Zeller. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.7312/zell16030.Search with Omnilimit to "Books and eBooks"sign in to request from other Omni librariesuse Scan on Demand for chapters or articlesConsider using WorldCat, which searches thousands of libraries around the world, and then request that item using the Resource Sharing Request Form.Bonus tip: Search within ebook collections to search within the full text of eBooks (as opposed to searching just titles and subjects in Omni)Ebook Central (Proquest)Academic Collection (ESBCO)ArticlesTutorial: Finding scholarly articles on a topicSearch in Omnilimit to "Articles" and "Peer-reviewed journals"article content in Omni is not chosen or curated, but dumped in, i.e, it may not have everything on a particular topic.Databases for Religion and CultureOther considerationsYou can "hand-search" journal publicationsThere are over 300 other subject-based databases that might be relevant to your search area, e.g, ERIC (education)Sociology CollectionWeb of ScienceIf you already know the title of an article, you can search for it in OmniTutorial: Finding an article when you only know the titleTheses and dissertationsDissertations and theses may be considered scholarly sources since they are closely supervised by a dissertation committee made up of scholars, are directed at an academic audience, are extensively researched, follow research methodology, and are cited in other scholarly work.However, dissertations are still considered student work and are not peer-reviewed. Always clarify with your instructor as to whether you can include and cite dissertations and theses in your research.ProQuest Dissertations & ThesesLaurier Religion & Culture MAs/PhD theses (Laurier Scholars Commons)Grey literatureGrey literature is information produced outside traditional scholarly publications. It includes reports, policy briefs and reports, major research papers, white papers, working papers, government documents, speeches, etc. There is no single database that covers grey literature well, so Google is helpful in cases like this. Consider the following tips when searching Google, often using these in combination:limit to domainsite:ca, site:edulimit to document typefiletype:pdf, filetype:pptxthink how a document might phrase something, enclose that in quotesheterodox "sufi islam" filetype:pdf site:eduAdditional resources for RCGS studentsTutorials:Developing a research questionPlanning a literature reviewPowerpoint:RE690 - RCGJ MA Library Workshop