Oral Communication - COMM 1000 - Lori Johnson

How to find research articles on communication issues with OneSearch “Advanced Search.”
    

1. Head to the Rod Library website – http://www.library.uni.edu     (or just google – UNI Library)
      
2. Click on the “Advanced Search” option under the OneSearch search blank.
       
3. Type in your topic and search.  
         
4. After you get (too many) results you can focus your search as follows:
   
       
   On the left-hand column of the results page try the following:
           
   • Check the box labeled "Peer-reviewed Journals" to limit your search to quality research
      
   • Adjust the “Publication Date” bar to a recent date range e.g. 2013 to 2018 if you are looking for more current research.
        
   • Click on "Expand My Results" and check the box if you want to search a larger universe of research literature - and are willing to use interlibrary loan.
         
          
5. To get results click on "Full text available"

To focus your searches using OneSearch try the following commands:

Another powerful technique is to search for your topic (keywords) in the title of articles.  To do this change the dropdown menu in the AdvancedSearch from “Select a Field” to “TI Title”

For the following search example the phrase “social media” and some form of the word addict (e.g. addicted or addiction) must both appear in the title of the article.

Be sure to limit the results to “Full Text” and “Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.”