SOC 230 - LGBTQ+ Studies

One-Stop Searching of Library Resources

Books, Ebooks, Articles, Videos, and the list goes on 

If there are no results matching your search...

• Make sure that all words are spelled correctly.
• Try a different search option (e-books instead of books in the library collection, for example)
• Try different keywords.
• Try more general keywords.
• Try fewer keywords 

If there are too few results matching your search...

• Use wildcards to expand your search:
  • Asterisk (*) will match zero or more characters within a word or at the end of a word

    • educa*will find education, educating, educator

    • psycholog* will find psychology, psychological

  • Question mark (?) will match any one character. 

    • gr?y will find gray or grey

    • m?n will find man and men

• To search for a phrase, type quotation marks around the phrase. You can combine both words and phrases in your search.

• For more help with basic searches, click here to access the ExLibris knowledge center

If you get thousands of results...

• Use more specific keywords: "Mendocino County history" rather than "Mendocino County"
• Slide the "personalize" button above the first result of your search to limit your search to your preferred disciplines (history, psychology, sociology, for example).
• Refine Your Results in the left column
  • "Sort By" lets you select listing your results by relevance, date (oldest or newest), title and author
  • Choose "subject" to further refine your search 
  • "Availability" can limit your search to a resource type such as peer-reviewed journals
  • "Creation Date" lets you limit your search to a creation-date range (2014-2019), for example.

Saving your searches...

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