IUCAT and OneSearch@IU
Andy was ready to start looking for articles and navigated to IUCAT (the Library’s Online Catalog) which is used to search the Library’s holdings of books and other materials such as periodicals, video/sound recordings, microform, and other physical materials; what it cannot do is find single articles in journals. He did a title search to find ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (a resource that contains a collection of 3.8 million graduate works; both dissertations and theses) and guess what, the Library had a subscription.
Obviously, Andy could not use dissertations or theses as a source for his book chapter, but he could explore their bibliographies to scrutinize their sources. Andy did a search using the terms “women and recruitment and terrorism”
and found a handful of good resources
but 1 stood out, a thesis by Gabrielle Centeno, The Female Jihadi: Women in Terrorism Today (2018). He read the abstract, investigated the references, and even went over some the Related Items listed in the box on the right side of the screen.
He found some interesting titles that needed further exploration. The ones that had links he could just click on and to find the ones that did not he employed OneSearch@IU to locate them. OneSearch@IU is a meta search engine or a search engine that searches other search engines. In this case, OneSearch@IU simultaneously searches IUCAT, scholarly article databases, news, and popular publications to retrieve a wide range of materials across subject areas.
This was just the appetizer; Andy knew he was going to have to get down to the main dish to make The Ambassador eat his words. But, with so many resources where would he begin? Suddenly, he remembered at New Faculty Orientation one of the several Fabulous Librarians did a presentation about this thing called LibGuides. Andy did not remember the details but knew what to do to get assistance. He pulled out his laptop lock, locked his laptop, grabbed his billfold from his book bag, and headed to the Reference Desk to find out more about LibGuides.
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- Finding Information: The Quest for Scholarly Articles Charmaine Henriques