Criminology

Criminology databases

Search techniques

In order to search effectively and find relevant articles, it is important to understand how the databases interprets your keywords and how you can combine them using operators like AND and OR.

Combining search terms with OR

experiences OR perceptions

• retrieves any of the search terms
• the more search terms you combine with OR the better you cover the research area
• your key concepts and their synonyms become a search block

Combining search terms with AND

pregnancy AND violence

• retrieves all of the concepts
• makes the search narrower

Phrase searching

"intimate partner violence"

• use if you want to search for a specific phrase
• excludes records where the search terms aren't written as a phrase
• narrows the search

Truncation

pregnan*

• Often done with an asterisk (*)
• searches for word variations - example above searches both pregnant and pregnancy
• broadens the search

Create database account – save searches and articles

Create an account

Click "Create My Research Account" and then complete the registration. The database account is free of charge.


 

Save articles

Check the box to the left of each reference. Then click on the dots to the right of each reference, you can choose several references at the same time. Choose "Save to my research account".

You can also mail the article, click the envelope in the same menu.

Save your search

• Click "Save search/alert"
• Create a name and click "Save"
• The searh is saved on your account, click on the symbol below: