SocIndex+Tipsheet

= Connect to SocINDEX with Full Text =

=This database is ideal for...=
 * ...when you want both popular and scholarly sources
 * ...when you want to find articles from magazines, newsletters, journals, and other professional publications
 * ...when you want to find resources on current social topics
 * ...when you need something right away (a full text option is available)!
 * ...when you want sources on a variety of topics such as: abortion,criminology, gender studies, marriage & family, social development, social psychology, social work, sociological theory

=__Database Description:__= SocIndex™ with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.

=__Search Tips:__= =Wildcard / Truncation:= Social Work Abstracts uses an asterisk (*) to replace an unlimited number of letters follow a word root and a question mark (?) to replace a single character inside a word.

=Boolean Operators:= Social Work Abstracts uses: AND, OR, NOT


 * **AND**: Finds records that contain both words, although not necessarily in the same sentence or in the given order. AND ties the two concepts together and provides a more narrow search than just a single word alone.


 * **OR**: Finds records that contain either word or both words. Use OR for synonymous or related terms;this broadens the search.


 * **NOT**: Finds records that contain the first word and that do not contain the second word.

=Proximity Operators:= You can use a proximity search to search for two or more words that occur within a specified number of words (or fewer) of each other. The proximity operators are composed of a letter (N or W) and a number (to specify the number of words). The proximity operator is placed between the words that are to be searched, as follows:


 * **Near Operator (N)** - N5 finds the words if they are within five words of one another regardless of the order in which they appear.


 * **Within Operator (W)** - W8 finds the words if they are within eight words of one another and in the order in which you entered them.

=Field Searching:= The default fields for unqualified searches consist of the following: all authors, all subjects, all keywords, all title info (including source title) and all abstracts. Field specific searches may be performed on the following fields: All text, Author, Title, Editor, Subject terms, Abstract, Source (Journal name), or Publication Date.

=Limiting:= Limit results by date, document type, publication title, publisher, and more!

=Locating Full Text:= Many articles are readily available as either HTML (word-processed full text within the database) or PDF files (links to scanned images of the article). Articles without full text may link to full text with the “Find It” link.

=OhioLINK’s OLinks Linking Service:= Click FIND IT to discover how to get a copy of the article: =__View tutorials from EBSCOhost on Searching__:=
 * If the full text of a journal article is available online, FIND IT can connect you directly to it.
 * If online full text is not available, check whether your library owns the journal in print or any other format.
 * If this item is a book and is found at an OhioLINK library, you can determine whether your library owns it, or request it from another library.
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