[00:00:05.710] Hi, my teacher gave me an assignment. [00:00:07.650] He wants me to do something on an important event [00:00:09.940] in world history and explain why it's important. [00:00:12.810] I know what I want to do. [00:00:14.300] I want to do it on World War II. [00:00:16.470] Great, let's go to World History In Context. [00:00:19.874] This resource has magazines, journals, [00:00:22.640] books and newspapers. [00:00:24.620] How long is the paper? [00:00:26.160] Five pages. [00:00:27.380] And I need at least five sources. [00:00:29.700] Well, World War II is a pretty big event. [00:00:32.520] You're going to have to narrow your topic [00:00:34.410] if you're only writing five pages. [00:00:36.400] I know, but how? [00:00:37.923] I have some ideas. [00:00:39.344] Let's do a basic search on World War II. [00:00:42.640] In the search box, key in the words World War II. [00:00:46.840] Notice how it suggests terms as you type. [00:00:49.522] We have a topic page here on World War II. [00:00:52.910] You'll find an overview, featured content [00:00:55.010] selected by editors, links to reference [00:00:57.420] and primary source content, [00:00:58.760] and here, newspapers, journals, magazines, [00:01:01.750] video, images and audio. [00:01:03.890] That's a lot of stuff. [00:01:05.570] But how do I narrow my topic? [00:01:06.998] Click on the title of the reference section. [00:01:09.622] This is where the encyclopedia articles are. [00:01:12.815] But there are hundreds of articles here. [00:01:15.485] I don't have time to look at all these. [00:01:17.726] It's almost as bad as Google. [00:01:19.816] Scroll down the page a little. [00:01:22.126] Notice on the right side of the page, [00:01:24.080] you can limit your results by subject. [00:01:25.842] You can also limit by document type. [00:01:28.115] Let's try to limit our list by subject. [00:01:30.787] Click the View More link at the end [00:01:33.610] of the subject section to see all of the subject terms. [00:01:36.383] Subject terms are headings that are attached [00:01:38.800] to each article. [00:01:39.950] Like tags when you label a story [00:01:41.210] that you see online, or a tweet or something? [00:01:43.555] Exactly. [00:01:45.340] You can use this feature to help you limit your topic. [00:01:47.923] You can also use it to get ideas. [00:01:50.176] For example, maybe you can focus on World War II [00:01:52.725] in the concentration camps. [00:01:54.226] Or maybe you could look at military operations [00:01:57.320] in World War II. [00:01:58.402] You know, I was thinking [00:02:00.090] about researching concentration camps. [00:02:02.082] Now we've limited your search results list [00:02:05.150] to just articles on concentration camps. [00:02:09.425] Ooh, here's an article on concentration camps [00:02:12.640] and whether or not the allies should've bombed them [00:02:14.530] during the war. [00:02:15.680] That's interesting. [00:02:17.290] Great, so now you've narrowed your topic. [00:02:20.200] Maybe you can use this article in your paper. [00:02:22.237] Yeah, but I only have this one article [00:02:24.900] on the topic. [00:02:26.090] What you can do now [00:02:27.290] is use the Advanced Search. [00:02:29.020] Instead of only searching for articles [00:02:30.660] on World War II, like we did in the basic search, [00:02:32.976] let's also search for articles on concentration camps [00:02:36.010] and bombings together. [00:02:37.670] First, we'll put the search term, concentration camps, [00:02:40.670] on one line. [00:02:41.930] Make sure the keyword search option is selected. [00:02:45.380] There are a lot of options. [00:02:46.850] Yes, you're right, there are a lot of them. [00:02:49.009] So I would try to remember just to key a few. [00:02:52.258] A keyword search looks for your search term [00:02:55.530] in the tile and the first paragraph of every article. [00:02:58.421] Let's try one. [00:03:01.090] Like this one here. [00:03:02.300] The words concentration camps occur in the title [00:03:05.010] in this first paragraph. [00:03:07.180] Let's go back and look at some of the other search options. [00:03:09.628] The subject search looks for those tags [00:03:13.010] we talked about in each article [00:03:14.500] and only those tags. [00:03:15.910] Remember those? [00:03:17.200] Yeah, absolutely. [00:03:18.690] The other one you'll want to remember [00:03:20.400] is the entire document search. [00:03:22.412] This looks at every single word of every single article [00:03:25.780] in your search term. [00:03:27.240] Oh, that's good. [00:03:28.150] I wanna do that. [00:03:29.370] (chuckles) Well, let's be careful with that. [00:03:31.710] There are millions of articles in here [00:03:33.420] and you'll get a huge list of results [00:03:35.170] from that kind of search. [00:03:36.800] Now since we wanna search for two of our terms together, [00:03:39.380] let's put the search term, bombing, on the next line. [00:03:42.470] If you use the connector and, you will get articles [00:03:45.430] that have both terms in one article. [00:03:47.670] If you change it to or, you will get articles [00:03:49.970] that have either one or the other in them. [00:03:52.343] Okay, that makes sense. [00:03:54.293] Now, see, you're getting articles [00:03:56.470] on just the bombing of concentration camps. [00:03:59.400] Yeah, and it tells me up here what I did. [00:04:01.434] By the way, my professor also said [00:04:03.835] that I need some primary source documents. [00:04:06.610] You can also find [00:04:07.443] primary source documents in here. [00:04:09.479] Let's return to the Advanced Search page. [00:04:11.692] Let's enter your search term concentration camps [00:04:15.290] and then check Primary Sources, [00:04:17.160] since we only want articles [00:04:18.710] that are primary source documents. [00:04:21.010] If you wanna get more specific, [00:04:22.470] you can select just diaries or just letters [00:04:25.400] in the Document Type section. [00:04:27.330] Here, you'll find every document type [00:04:29.320] found in this library resource. [00:04:31.547] This is great. [00:04:33.550] I'm sure I'll find enough for my paper. [00:04:35.067] Use Advanced Search [00:04:36.920] to conduct complex searches, [00:04:38.670] like searches for multiple terms [00:04:40.380] or by content type or document type. [00:04:43.260] And remember that you can always narrow the results list. [00:04:46.091] This may help you narrow you research topic, [00:04:48.636] since all of these In Context resources work the same way, [00:04:52.410] you're going to find the same features I've just shown you.