Use your book and overview article to find terms and topics:
I found an article on MIgrant Health. (See the link below). I thought of a question I might want to find information about:
There seems to be protective factors for newly arrived immigrants that are lost in subsequent generations. Why might this be true?
Click on the link below and see how I found words that I can use in my search. Here are the first 2 pages with new search terms circled:
Then I organized the words into groups by similarity or synonyms. (Migrant or immigrant).
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population
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illness
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sociological situation
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| migrants | "respiratory disease" | agricultural |
| hispanic OR latino | "lung disease" | "industrialized nation" |
| farmworkers | allergies OR allergens | "disease awareness" |
| immigrants |
To search in SocIndex and Academic Search Premier (links below), choose one word from each box and put AND between them. You'll get articles that are about all three. Play with mixing the terms up with each other until you get a good search: (Notice if words are redundant: farmworkers and agriculture -- you probably don't need both).
farmworkers AND "respiratory illness"
immigrants AND allergies
Do the same thing with your overview article. Then search in SocINDEX and Academic Search Premier.
These databases are the ones you should use to start your search for research articles.
If you're searching for "health care" it thinks you care about the institutuional structure or how people interact with health care.
If you're searching for "medicine" it doesn't make any assumptions about what you're interested in. It might give you articles about chemistry, biology, or sociology. So you need to tell the database exactly what you're interested in.
Provides abstracts and full text of thousands of journals from the 1800s to the present in psychology and related disciplines, including education, linguistics, neurosciences, pharmacology, and social work.
Subject: Database's vocabulary (different for each database)
Keyword: Your vocabulary
LImiters: Special to each database ("Age Group" below)
Databases use a grammar of AND, OR, AND NOT -- a language of mathematics. No prepositions, verbs, determiners, affixes -- anything you learned in English or human language classes.