Search strategies
Once you have identified your Research Question generate a list of words, or Keywords that are related to your topic. For example, your question, loneliness and college students The keywords related to your topic:
loneliness and "young adults" and "social media" and "colleges or universities" and "united states"...
search keywords:
loneliness and "college students"
Advance Keywords search:
"mobile devices", isolation, United States, studies, "focus groups"
Use AND, OR, NOT to connect your phrases/keywords
to locate both "college students" AND isolation
to locate either word college OR universities
to locate (the first word) depression NOT isolation
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depress* depressed, depression, depressing
Sociology focused
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowAbstract database of sociology and social and behavioral sciences literature from 1952 to present. Includes journal articles, conference papers, books, and dissertations.
- ProQuest Sociology Database This link opens in a new windowFull-text database of international literature of sociology and social work from 1985 to present. Topics include community and mental health, crisis intervention, family and social welfare, poverty and homelessness, addiction, and social work education.
- Social Sciences (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowSearches a number of ProQuest social science databases (including ERIC, GenderWatch, and Sociological Abstracts).
- ProQuest Sociology Collection This link opens in a new windowThis collection provides access to Sociological Abstracts in combination with other databases covering the international literature in sociology and social services, along with related fields. Together, it provides abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more, including full-text from hundreds of leading sociology journals.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA growing full text collection of core social science, humanities, and science journals and books.
