Anthropology 179 (Torres)

Overall Goals

• determine if your research question is researchable.
• locate literature (including data) that is relevant to your research question.

By the end of today's session, you will be able to

• create and revise effective search strategies to explore research interests.
• access and search specific online journals related to the discipline of bioarchaeology.
• search databases to find relevant articles based on your research question(s).
• identify the benefits and drawbacks of searching within specific journals articles versus searching in databases.
• locate background information on your culture, time period etc.

Part I: Keywords & Background Info

• Generating keywords from research questions.
• Locating key words from background sources.

Part II: Journal Searching

• Access & search specific journals
• Activity (1st part)

Part III: Database Searching

• Activity (2nd part)
• Reflection - What are the pros and cons of each strategy?

Part IV: Independent Searching

• Search in one or more journal, database etc. to determine if your research question is researchable.