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Hi, my teacher gave me an assignment.
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He wants me to do something on an important event
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in world history and explain why it's important.
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I know what I want to do.
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I want to do it on World War II.
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Great, let's go to World History In Context.
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This resource has magazines, journals,
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books and newspapers.
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How long is the paper?
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Five pages.
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And I need at least five sources.
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Well, World War II is a pretty big event.
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You're going to have to narrow your topic
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if you're only writing five pages.
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I know, but how?
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I have some ideas.
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Let's do a basic search on World War II.
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In the search box, key in the words World War II.
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Notice how it suggests terms as you type.
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We have a topic page here on World War II.
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You'll find an overview, featured content
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selected by editors, links to reference
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and primary source content,
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and here, newspapers, journals, magazines,
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video, images and audio.
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That's a lot of stuff.
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But how do I narrow my topic?
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Click on the title of the reference section.
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This is where the encyclopedia articles are.
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But there are hundreds of articles here.
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I don't have time to look at all these.
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It's almost as bad as Google.
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Scroll down the page a little.
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Notice on the right side of the page,
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you can limit your results by subject.
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You can also limit by document type.
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Let's try to limit our list by subject.
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Click the View More link at the end
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of the subject section to see all of the subject terms.
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Subject terms are headings that are attached
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to each article.
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Like tags when you label a story
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that you see online, or a tweet or something?
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Exactly.
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You can use this feature to help you limit your topic.
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You can also use it to get ideas.
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For example, maybe you can focus on World War II
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in the concentration camps.
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Or maybe you could look at military operations
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in World War II.
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You know, I was thinking
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about researching concentration camps.
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Now we've limited your search results list
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to just articles on concentration camps.
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Ooh, here's an article on concentration camps
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and whether or not the allies should've bombed them
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during the war.
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That's interesting.
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Great, so now you've narrowed your topic.
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Maybe you can use this article in your paper.
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Yeah, but I only have this one article
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on the topic.
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What you can do now
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is use the Advanced Search.
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Instead of only searching for articles
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on World War II, like we did in the basic search,
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let's also search for articles on concentration camps
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and bombings together.
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First, we'll put the search term, concentration camps,
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on one line.
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Make sure the keyword search option is selected.
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There are a lot of options.
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Yes, you're right, there are a lot of them.
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So I would try to remember just to key a few.
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A keyword search looks for your search term
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in the tile and the first paragraph of every article.
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Let's try one.
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Like this one here.
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The words concentration camps occur in the title
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in this first paragraph.
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Let's go back and look at some of the other search options.
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The subject search looks for those tags
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we talked about in each article
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and only those tags.
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Remember those?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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The other one you'll want to remember
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is the entire document search.
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This looks at every single word of every single article
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in your search term.
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Oh, that's good.
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I wanna do that.
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(chuckles) Well, let's be careful with that.
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There are millions of articles in here
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and you'll get a huge list of results
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from that kind of search.
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Now since we wanna search for two of our terms together,
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let's put the search term, bombing, on the next line.
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If you use the connector and, you will get articles
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that have both terms in one article.
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If you change it to or, you will get articles
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that have either one or the other in them.
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Okay, that makes sense.
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Now, see, you're getting articles
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on just the bombing of concentration camps.
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Yeah, and it tells me up here what I did.
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By the way, my professor also said
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that I need some primary source documents.
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You can also find
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primary source documents in here.
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Let's return to the Advanced Search page.
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Let's enter your search term concentration camps
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and then check Primary Sources,
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since we only want articles
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that are primary source documents.
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If you wanna get more specific,
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you can select just diaries or just letters
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in the Document Type section.
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Here, you'll find every document type
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found in this library resource.
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This is great.
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I'm sure I'll find enough for my paper.
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Use Advanced Search
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to conduct complex searches,
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like searches for multiple terms
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or by content type or document type.
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And remember that you can always narrow the results list.
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This may help you narrow you research topic,
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since all of these In Context resources work the same way,
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you're going to find the same features I've just shown you.