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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
Circulation Desk: 940-898-3701

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
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.
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
Interlibrary Loan, 940-898-3728

Open Access: