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1. This opens in Advanced Search mode
2. Enter a term for your main topic. Click Search.
- "Ahura Mazda" Put multiple-word phrases in quotes
- Tip: Gather all alternative names for your god together using the operator OR.
- "Ahura Mazda" OR Hormazd OR Hormozd OR Hurmuzd
3. In the left column, under Limit to: check this box:
Scholarly journals (peer reviewed)
Now, all your results will be high quality academic articles.
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- Add a focus concept in the 2nd search box. Click Search.
- Look at your search results.
- If one of your concepts is not jumping out at you, try focusing this concept using special fields
- Click the pulldown menu (right of the search box).
- Select AB Abstract (to find results where this concept is found in the abstract or summary).
- OR Select TI Title or SU Subject.
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- Full text links are to the left of the article's title (upper left).
- Email full text to yourself.
- Open the full record of the article
- Click the Email icon (an envelope, in the right column)
- Enter your Email.
- An MLA citation will be sent by default. You can select Chicago style. Use the pulldown.