How to find books, videos and articles? 

1. Click on the Holman Library One Search below and Combine Search Words relating to your topic, such as: mass incarceration racism justice
2. In the Left-Hand Column of the search results page, Filter your search by...

• Peer-reviewed Journals...to give you scholarly analysis or scientific research on a very specific area of your topic
• Books / Book Chapters... to give you an in-depth analysis of the complexity of your large topic
• Newspapers...to give you facts or up-to-date info on your topic
• Videos... to provide first-hand accounts of participants or to view the topic from a documentary angle

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1. First, you will likely need to perform several searches with different search words

Examples:

• search #1 = online dating
• search #2 = internet dating
• search #3 = dating websites
• search #4 = online dating culture
• search #5 = online dating norms
• search #6 = "internet daters" attitudes

2.  Next, filter by "Reference Entries to give you basic background about your topic.
3. Then filter by different source types - Peer-reviewed, Books and Videos can be helpful types of sources
4. Results may include online sources AND hardcopy sources available on library shelves

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What is Holman Library One Search?

Holman Library One Search is a tool that performs a very basic search of all the library's databases simultaneously, along with a small selection of vetted open-source eBooks and open access articles.  The results list will contain a wide variety of books, eBooks, videos, images, magazines, scholarly peer-reviewed journals, and some newspapers.  Websites are not included in Primo results.

Use Holman Library One Search if...

• you want a general survey of what's available through the Library on your topic     
• you just need enough information to get started on your research project
• you need a wide variety of source types
• you are short on time
• you want to see good sources the library does not have immediate access to, but that you can still get through interlibrary loan
• you want to find textbooks on course reserve

Instead of One Search, use individual library databases if...

• you want a very thorough examination of your topic - individual databases will yield more thorough results
• you are looking for reference or encyclopedia articles (you can fine-tune searches better with Gale Virtual Reference Library)
• you need newspaper articles, especially (there is better coverage through ProQuest or Academic Search Complete)
• you need to do a specific search using more powerful database limiters, such as finding primary sources, biographies, trade journals, graphs, and searching by subject headings