Search Strategies

Look at a good article's citations or references to find out more information. To do this:

• Look at the reference list of your resources to find the sources that those authors used.
• Find out who has cited your resources.
• Find more resources written by the same author or published in the same journal.

Use Discovery:

• If you like a reference, some articles will include hyperlinks to those articles if Hofstra has access to it.
• If no hyperlink is available, copy and paste the title and search for it via Discovery.

Enter keywords to search the library's catalog for full text electronic articles.

Click here to do an Advanced Search

Search Google Scholar: 

  

• Use Google Scholar: Access Google Scholar through the library webpage (located under G in Browse databases by A-Z or Subject).
• Google Scholar contains a built-in citation mining tool. It enables researchers to locate how an article has been cited since its publication. 
• When using Google Scholar through the library database, it will provide you with a link to the full text article if Hofstra has access to it.