The Arch: Search Tips

Subject Search Tips

By default, when searching within a subject category you'll be searching across all checked databases.

If several databases are checked the search will take take longer to return results, as you'll be searching across all of the databases checked.

After selecting "GO," a "Search Status" screen listing how many article citations within each database will be displayed. The search will return up to 30 records from each database, listed as the "Top Results." If you'd like to access more articles from a specific database, you can click on the database name in the facet to the right of the search results, and access all the articles provided. (See more on facets below)

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Refining your Results

Facets allow you to refine your results. Facets are listed on the right of the results screen, and include:

Results by Database (Numbers beside the limits indicate the number of articles per database )

• Limit top Results by

• Topic

• Date

• Author (numbers indicate how many articles each author listed has in the results)

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Article Information

To get detailed information (including full-text if available) of the article you've found a citation for, click on the article title.

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  1. Article information: Author, Format, Year, Published in, Database
  2. Check for availability (checks library holdings for full-text) Save the Record (log-in to the Arch and save the article information-see "Logging-In" help on this page, below this section
  3. Summary-includes an overview of the article
  4. Cite this Article: Citations for the article, in APA, MLA, and Turabian.

Hint: if you want to add the citation to RefWorks or a Bibliographic citation management tool, see "Logging-in" help on this page, below this section

Searching Individual Databases

As well as allowing you to search across several databases at once, you can also search individual databases. Upon accessing a subject, you'll see a list of databases and research resources. To search just one database, you can either:

Select it by using the check box beside the database name (if it's not greyed out) and searching within the Arch interface search box, or,

Click on the database title link (if it's greyed out, this is the only way to search the database) to access the database and search within the native database interface. By accessing the database this way, there will be more search functionality than if you use the above method.

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