From the home page, you can click on "Advanced Search"
You can use some advanced search features from the home page. Here, you can limit your results to full text articles, date of publication, lexile or reading level, and whether you just want cover stories.
This is what the "Advanced Screen" looks like:
At the top, you can enter multiple search terms, use boolean operators (and, or, not), and search in specific fields.
Here you can select specific document types to include in your search. To narrow your search, just leave one or two checked; to broaden your search, check them all.
This section can be found on the main page; you can limit your hits to full text articles only, to only one magazine or newspaper, to a specific time frame, cover story, and lexile or reading level.
Here you can select specific document types to include in your search. To narrow your search, just leave one or two checked; to broaden your search, check them all.
This section can be found on the main page; you can limit your hits to full text articles only, to only one magazine or newspaper, to a specific time frame, cover story, and lexile or reading level.
For example, say you are researching children in the Holocaust. Remember when you use Boolean search terms, you get articles that include the word children AND Holocaust.
This search yields 2,000 hits! Now click on "Refine Search". This will take us back to the Advanced Search page.
In the "Select a Field" box, you can choose what fields you would like your search terms searched in. The options are All Text, Author, Title, Subject Terms, Source, Abstract, ISSN, and Lexile. I have chosen my words to be searched in the Subject Terms field. That means, the if the words "holocaust" and "children" are in the mentioned in the main text of the article, but not listed as a subject heading, those articles will not be included in my results. By limiting my search to the subject field, I will get articles that are mainly about the Holocaust and children.
By limiting my search terms to the subject field, I reduced my number of hits to 211.
Another way to search the subject field is to click on the word "Subject" along the left side of your screen. From there, a drop down menu of subject headings appears, and I see a specific subject heading that would work, "Jewish children in the Holocaust".
Searching with the subject heading "Jewish children in the Holocaust" got a very manageable 17 hits.
Another way to search by subject heading is to click on an article title and look at the subject headings listed there. When I click on "Hidden children (Holocaust)", I come up with three more articles.
If you scroll down the Advanced Search page, you will find ways to limit your search in the different databases within the SRC.