Dance - Sophomore research project guide

ZipSearch is the best place to start most research projects. It includes:

• Journal, Newspaper, and Magazine Articles
• Books at UA
• Books in OhioLINK
• Streaming Video & Audio
• Book Reviews

Because ZipSearch includes so many resources, it can be helpful to limit your results. On the initial search page you can limit your results to resources that are available online, peer reviewed, or recently published.

And then on the Search results page you will have additional filter options that can be accessed by selecting 'All filters' below the search box. Pick what filters you want to use and select 'Apply Filters'. Subject and Source Type are two of the more useful filters.

If you are not able to find what you are looking for using ZipSearch, then please Contact the Library and we would be happy to help. You can also checkout the Library's Subject Guides for help researching a particular subject.

Certain materials are easier to find using the Library Catalog. This is because the Library Catalog has different search options and results. These materials include:

• Course Reserves Items
• Music Scores
• Streaming Video & Audio
• Government Documents

ZipSearch Hints for this project:

• Contains most databases useful for this assignment
• Use keywords, not phrases; start broad, can always narrow down
• Click on "scholarly articles" in results to only get scholarly articles
• Can limit further by date, language, etc.
• Can save in folder - only for your session
• Can get citation
• Default is to only show articles that we have full access for; to get additional articles, uncheck the box marked "available in library collection"

What if the Library doesn't have access to an Article?

• If full text is not available from UA, there will be a link that says "request via interlibrary loan"; click on that, log in to interlibrary loan, and your request will already be populated. *most ILL articles arrive within 3-4 days*.