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GWS 100 - Downtown (James Hernandez): MegaSearch

Researching the history of the discipline

MegaSearch

Purpose:

  • Find scholarly/academic articles about the history of your discipline

 

1. Open MegaSearch.  

  • If you are not on the PCC network, you will be asked to authenticate at some point.

2. Click Advanced Search (right side of the search box)

  • Your search will involve three concepts
    • A name for your discipline.
    • The concept of a history of something
    • The concept of an academic discipline
  • In the top search box, enter a name for your discipline:
    • "gender studies" OR "women's studies"
  • In the lower search box, enter something like this:
    • history OR historical OR origin OR founding
  • You need a another search box, so click the "+" icon.
  • In the last box enter something like this:
    • discipline OR disciplinary

4. Select Scholar & Peer Reviewed ( left side, top).