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After going over some of the Research/Topical Guides the library employee graciously showed him, Andy zeroed in on the Terrorism and Security Studies Guide (but kept the International Studies Research Guide in mind). There was an Article tab that listed a nice selection of Terrorism and Security Studies journals, an Organization tab that Andy decided to go back and review later to see if there were any organizations he wanted to join and to also peruse the publications on their webpages, and a Home tab that included databases which had been broken down into 3 categories: 

•    Key Resources-The types of resources in which you normally begin a search; sources that specifically connect to the topic/subject
•    Related Resources-Subject specific resources that lay outside the subject/discipline but maybe relevant to the topic
•    General Resources-Interdisciplinary resources that cover a wide variety of subjects/disciplines

Andy decided he would kick things off with the Article tab. He browsed the list of journals and read their descriptions by hovering over the “i”. He chose a journal titled Studies in Conflict and Terrorism and did a search using the terms “women and terrorist organizations”.






His results were already displayed by relevance and he limited them to those which he could get full access. Andy was thrilled, he found some really good articles.









He knew he needed more, but this was an excellent first step, so he moved on to the Home tab and chose a subject specific database, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts








and used the search terms “women and combat role”.








There were over 11,000 results and he quickly decided he did not want to go through all of them.







Since he needed scholarly articles, Andy limited his results to Scholarly Journals, also Subject and Date to get a more manageable list.







He scrolled through the list, picked several and read the abstracts. He found some salient pieces and other that did not fit but got picked up because they matched his search terms (he deduced this because the terms were highlighted). Andy selected the ones he wanted and emailed them to himself.







The Ambassador threw down the gauntlet and Andy took it up, therefore he had to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. Andy felt good about everything he obtained and was bringing his A-game! He organized his source material and began reading what he collected. It was a struggle, but Andy was able to get his book chapter written and submitted midway through the following month; there was nothing more to do than wait for a response.






 

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