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I want to find articles
about the issue of
women's body image and the media.
The first place I would look
is Academic Search Complete.
So, I'm going to go there.
But, part of my assignment is that
I want to have the feminist perspective
on this issue.
So I really want to get into
the women's studies and gender studies databases.
If I go to 'choose databases'
here inside of EBSCO,
I see that EBSCO sells us
lots more databases.
And, indeed, the premiere gender studies database
is right here.
Right across from it
is Women's Studies International
which has a lot of overlap
with Gender Studies
but is also useful to throw into your search.
Also part of EBSCO is LGBT Life with Full Text.
So, if the topic I'm interested in
has anything to do with an LGBT slant,
I would probably want to add that, too.
So now I have four databases:
Academic Search Complete,
being broad, general; a little bit of everything.
And I say, 'yeah, I want to search all four
databases at once.'
So I come here and I want to do
'women and advertising' or 'women and body image'
or something like that.
But remember that I'm in a gender studies database,
so adding the word 'women'
is going to mean I call up almost
everything in the database.
So I'm going to not put in the word 'women'
and just do 'body image' and 'media'
And, indeed, I get a list of body image and media articles,
and if I like this one,
I can open it up and look at it
and I'm looking for more words like these
that I can use to come up here
and add to my search terms.
So, 'self esteem and adolescence'
'body image and women'
'media literacy'
these are all terms that
might apply to my topic
that I want to keep track of.
Back here on my search screen,
I have the limiters down the side
I can say, 'oh yeah, that's a great subject heading
I want to add that'
and I can update my search
with that subject heading in it, too.
So, I have limited my search
to just those
but also include the words 'body image'
which we see in each.
In the field of women's and gender studies,
these are the easiest to get at databases
and, indeed, the most used databases
and the first places I would look.