English 100: Finding Articles

If you're connecting from off campus, most resources should automatically direct you to the proxy page to authenticate your account; then you'll be forwarded automatically to the resource you requested.

Automatic redirect not happening?  Being asked for a password you don't have?  Denied access?  Use the authentication page to verify that you are a University of Regina student, then try again.

Still not working?  Contact ITS.

•         prioritize your concepts to begin your search with the most important one
•         consider additional concepts to use, if necessary, to reduce or expand retrieval
•         if the database has a thesaurus, either online or print, check for suggested terms

•           if you have combined several concepts using AND, start again and search only the most important one. Then add the next most important  one, and so forth
•           look at each concept and see if you can think of additional synonyms (use OR)
•           if you are searching free-text, look at your terms carefully and think of ways to broaden your phrasing

•         look at a sample of the items retrieved; if a high proportion is not relevant, add another concept
•         sometimes irrelevant records may be eliminated by NOTing out a particular aspect or population
•         try limiting by language, date, form of material, particular field instead of free-text

Start your research in QuickFind, the most basic library search tool.

After you have found what is available in QuickFind, try expanding your search using the databases listed below.

Boolean operators are needed in most databases and in Summon, so take a moment to review with this brief video.  Double-click for fullscreen.