Video link: Select a Field
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Visual: Advanced Search page in PsycINFO
Narration: This short video will demonstrate how to use the select a field option to focus your article searches.
To begin, we’ll just type in our search term, Bandura, and click on search.
Visual: Results page from Bandura search in PsycINFO
Narration: This will bring up 520 results. The results list will include articles that are written ABOUT Albert Bandura as well as articles that were written BY Bandura.
If you’d like to focus on articles that are written BY Bandura,
Visual: Drop-down menu from Select a Field displayed in PsycINFO
Narration: you can choose from this drop-down menu to search only the author field and re-run the search.
Visual: Results list from Bandura in AU-Author field search in PsycINFO
Narration: This will bring up 117 results. All of the results on the list will have Bandura as one of the authors.
If instead of searching the author you want to search for things that are ABOUT Bandura, you have several different options.
Narration: One would be to search the title. When you run the search for Bandura in the title,
Visual: Results list from Bandura in TI-Title field search in PsycINFO
Narration: you get just 22 results.
You can broaden out from the title to search the entire abstract.
Narration: Choose abstract from the drop-down and re-run the search
Visual: Results list from Bandura in AB-Abstract field search in PsycINFO
Narration: and you’ll get 404 results.
The broadest search would be to search through all the text.
Narration: This will search for Bandura everywhere in the text and when you re-run the search
Visual: Results list from Bandura in TX All Text field search in PsycINFO
Narration: it will bring up 529 results.
You can use any of these methods to find articles about or by authors. Take a look at the different results lists to get a feel for which approach works best for you as you are running your searches.
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