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Child, Youth & Family Studies: Media Literacy

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[Note: We are working to improve access to our collections and revising our subject headings to be more respectful and inclusive. Please be aware that you may see certain words or descriptions in search results or library materials which reflect the author’s attitude or that of the period in which the item was created and may now be considered offensive.]

Finding Scholarly Articles with Find It

When you have done your search, don’t forget to use the limiters. The main ones are:

All filters options to limit seach results.

 

 

Available in Library Collection..............

 

 

you will be able to read the articles/books online or find them in the library
Scholarly Peer Reviewed Journals ..... if you need journal articles only
Print Books Only ..................................

 

limits mainly to our physical book, collection
Subject ...................................................

 

a listing of alternative keywords that you can use to improve your search
Geography............................................... want to limit to Canada? use this
Content Provider  ................................

 

 

gives you a list of the databases that have been searched (from here you can limit to only one database)

Remember to use this toolbar to easily:

Email yourself the article by clicking on Share

Cite your article (provides the citation in many different styles)

Use Share to Create a link to the article, whether you are on or off campus. Use this link to email to your professor, or classmates.

 EDS tools with three dots, cite and share highlighed.

 

  1. By default, Find It searches all terms you have entered, without the need to use AND.  For example: children television violence will find items that contain all 3 terms.
     
  2. By default, Find It searches through the full text of documents (if available).  This may cause a large number of results, and not all are relevant to your subject.  Results are returned in a relevancy ranked order. You can change the ranking to date if you wish.
     
  3. To improve the relevancy of your search results, enclose phrases in "quotation marks".  For example:  "British Columbia" or "global warming".
     
  4. Include the apostrophe.  For example, use "handmaid's tale" rather than "handmaids tale"
     
  5. To find variant endings for a word, use the * asterisk (truncation symbol.)  For example:  delinquen* finds delinquent, delinquents, delinquency
     
  6. To find books, e-books. videos or other items in the UFV library, refine your search by selecting "All Books".  You can also limit to "Print books Only" if you want something to hold!
     
  7. To find scholarly journal articles, refine your search by selecting "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed)"
     
  8. You can refine a search by limiting to Language. However, be aware that many English language articles have not been tagged as English, so will be missing from your search results.
     
  9. Many items have direct links to retrieve the full text. For those that don't, use "Full Text Finder" to determine if UFV has the item in print or online.
     
  10. To limit to Canadian content, use the Geography filter.

 

Custom made UFV tutorials:

How to Find a Book with Find It

Limiting Your Library Search to Streaming Videos

Finding Your Article Using Full Text Finder

 

Tutorials from the service provider:

Media Smarts

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