COM 101: Introduction to Communication Studies: More Search Strategies

Summary

Additional strategies for locating research include:

Using the article information to identify more subject terms
Identifying authors and looking them up in Communication Source
Locating an older article and searching for it in Google Scholar to find newer articles that cite it (see the Chain of Research page)

Select Article Titles from Your Search Results

Need more synonyms? Identify an article you like, select the article title to view the full record, and scroll to the Subject Terms list.

Authors are Everywhere!

Use the reference lists of articles that you are reading to identify other authors who write about your topic, and then search for articles written by that author.

Locate Articles by Author

Find articles written by your author by entering the author's last name into the search box, and change the drop-down menu to Author - AU to find articles written by this author: