Did you know that you can get posters printed at the library? The IMC on the lower level of Green Library has a high quality poster printer and low fees for printing. See their page on poster printing for details, as well as lots of great tips on what to do (or not do) on your poster!
1) Generate search terms for your topic in both Spanish and English.
2) Remember to think about using synonyms/related terms. For instance, if you are working on the benefits of being bilingual in the workplace, other words that could be used for workplace are jobs, employment, business, or even employees or appliants.
3) Start by searching for books and articles in Spanish using your Spanish search terms. You will likely get far fewer results as our system has a strong English language focus for scholarship.
4) Now switch it over to looking for books/articles in English. You will likely find a lot more materials and may need to make your search more specific at this point to narrow things down.
5) While searching try a trick called truncation. Truncation means cutting a word down to the stem and then adding an * (asterisk) to the end. It tells databases to search for all forms of the word. So typing in bilingual* will search not only for bililngual, but also bilingualism. If you cut it down all the way to bilingu*, you will also be including the Spanish word bilingue.
6) If searches in the Library Search tool are overwhelming, consider searching in a specific database that is most closely related to your topic. There is list below.
7) Remember that citation tracing from the first sources you find can often help you easily find additional sources.
This search box (also found on the library home page) will allow you to search for books, book chapters, journal articles, plus other source types.
Reminder!
Bilingualism is important to and studied in many contexts, so you will find articles in many different databases. Please read the descriptions of the databases below to help you find the ones that best match your research topic.
This is not a comprehensive list of our databases! If none of these match up with your topics well, please email me your topic and I can advise on databases for other subject areas!
Step 1: First identify an article that we don't have full text
Step 2: Once in ILLiad, check to see if the autofill worked correctly.
Step 3: Then scroll down to submit the request.
Step 4: When the article arrives, you will get an email. Log back into ILLiad to download the PDF.
You can find books via the search box on library homepage.
There are a couple of different approaches to trying to find the full-text of articles or books from citations you find in bibliographies.
Type the title or other info from the citation into the library search tool. This approach allows you to check in one place for both articles and books.
You can set up google scholar (see video below) to talk to the WCU Libraries to make finding full text of articles easy. But it doesn't work for books, so those still need to be checked through Library Search or the catalog.
But, Google Scholar will alllow you to do Citation Indexing at the same time as tracing sources.
While bibliography tracing always takes you further back in time, citation indexing lets you go forward in time by seeing who has cited an article after it was published. Google scholar is a clear best bet for citation indexing in any humanities field, as it pulls from both journal articles and books.
