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Subject Specialists

TWU's Professional Librarians specialize in specific subject areas taught at Texas Woman's University.

Find your subject and click on the Librarian's name to make an appointment:

Phone * In-Person * Chat * Virtual

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Google Tips and Tricks for Searching

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Parentheses: Performs the function inside the parentheses first
example  (geriatric OR elderly OR "older adult")

example  (stroke OR "cerebral vascular accident" OR cva)

example  (debridement OR "teeth cleaning" OR "plaque removal")

Boolean Logic: Instructs the search engine what to do with the words typed into the search box
example: (pediatric OR children) AND (bike or bicycle) AND (crash or accident) AND statistics

 

Google Scholar & Full Text

Open Google Scholar > Select Settings from the navigation in the upper left - looks like pancakes

Select Library Links > Enter Texas Woman's University 
You will see three boxes with checks -
Texas Woman's University - Find it @ TWU
                                                                      TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY - ProQuest Fulltext
                                                                      Open WorldCat - Library Search

Be sure and Save your selection

Perform a search in Google Scholar and select the Find it @ TWU or PDF from the database or html or pdf - there are a number of options with various names.


 

Other Helpful Information

Definitions:

DOI: 
     Digital Object Identifier
     Web address of an item on the internet
         ex. DOI: 10.1111/1751-486X.12150

ISBN: 
     International Standard Book Number
     Serial number of a book
         ex. ISBN-10: 0553213113; ISBN-13: 978-0553213119

ISSN: 
     International Standard Serial Number
     Serial number of a journal
         ex. Journal of the American Medical Association 
               ISSN: 0098-7484

PMID: 
     PubMed Identification number
     Serial number for individual article indexed by PubMed
     (National Institutes of Health - National Library of Medicine)
         ex: PMID: 25966122

 

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  • unrestricted reuse
  • cost of publication does not go to the reader.