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• Learning Outcomes
• Locating Books
• Locating Journal Articles

• Relevant Websites
• Citing Sources

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Use the Library catalog to perform simple searches to locate reference materials and books on your topic
• Find full text print and/or electronic articles using various library databases
• Use search engines and subject directories to locate relevant websites
• Locate style guides to assist you in properly citing materials

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Creating a Search Strategy:

Use Boolean Operators to combine keywords, expand, or narrow a search!

Source: Tufts University Library

Note: Always use parentheses around "key phrases" (i.e., more than one word). This will ensure that the system searches for the entire phrase, rather than each single word.

Also try using the Search Strategy Builder from the University of Arizona to tease out and create an effective search stategy that can be copied and pasted into whichever database or library catalog you decide to use!

Locating books in this library: Use the Library Catalog to find books owned by the UWP library. Use one of the catalog's keyword search options. Then look at the subject headings used in the records you retrieve. Is there one that describes what you're looking for? If so, click on it to find other books on your topic.

Books in other libraries: To find books and other materials from public, school, and academic libraries across Wisconsin, search BadgerCat. To locate materials in libraries worldwide, try a search in WorldCat.

UW System Search: UW System Search/Universal Borrowing (UB) allows you make arrangements yourself to borrow materials from other UW libraries. All of the 13 UW libraries participate in this program. UB is built on the idea that the UW System libraries together are now one virtual library.

Using the UWP library catalog, you can simultaneously search other UW libraries to determine if the item you want is available. Simply select the "Multi Library Search" link at the top of our library's catalog and conduct your search. If the item is available from another UW library, you can complete an online request form, which will be transmitted directly to the owning library. The owning library will retrieve the material and send it to the UWP library. A courier service runs between the UW libraries five days a week and delivers the requested materials. You can use the UB service to request books and A/V materials, however, requests for periodical articles and for books/media items not owned by the UW Systems should still go through the traditional InterLibrary Loan process.

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Quick Links

Anthropology Portal

Sociology Portal

American Anthropological Association (AAA)

Sociology/Anthropology Department homepage

You will need to use a periodical index to find articles in journals that we own electronically or in print. The indexes listed below will help you find citations to journal articles and other publications on poverty related issues.

Step 2: Now that you have a citation to an article, does the Library own the journal?

After you've found a citation to a journal article in which you're interested, if you don't see a full text link, click the FindIt! button to see if the library has the journal in either print or electronic form. If the Library doesn't own the item you will still be able to request it from InterLibrary Loan.

Conversely, you can check the UWP Periodicals List to see if the Library subscribes to the journal in either print or electronic format.

Some of the journal titles suggested for this class by your professor include:

• Development & Change
• Human Organization
• Gender, Technology and Development
• Progress in Development Studies
• Journal of Developing Societies
• Economic Development Quarterly
• Progress in Human Geography
• Journal of Environment & Development
• Journal of Development Studies
• Gender & Development
• Anthropology Today
• Critique of Anthropology
• World Development
• Anthropological Quarterly
• Studies in Comparative International Development
• Development Policy Review
• Urban Anthropology & Studies of Cultural Systems & World Economic Development
• International Journal for Sustainable Development & World Ecology

Off-campus access: These databases are licensed by the Library for the use of the University's students, faculty, and staff, and can be accessed from off-campus. If you are asked to login, you must enter your UW-Parkside email username and password. Your email account must have been previously activated.

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Subject Directories are like search engines that have been indexed by real people. Therefore, search results tend to be reliable and often contain useful links and other relevant resources.

Some subject directories you may want to try include:

• Librarians' Index to the Internet
• Academic Info
• Internet Public Library
• DMOZ Open Directory Project

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Your professor has indicated that assignments in this class should use the following style guide:

American Anthropological Association Style Guide

For more assistance, or to see other available citation and style guides, contact the reference desk or click here.

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