Tuesday, February 28, 2012

MasterFILE Premier

For this search I used the search string, (people* or teen* or adolescen*) and (cause* or motivate*) and ("steroid drugs").  The database I chose to conduct a search on was MasterFILE Premier.  This database provided more relevant and less numerous results than Academic Research Premier did.  Both of these websites come from EBSCOhost so the way to narrow down the results in both is the same.  You can limit your results to full text, scholarly journal, publication type, publication dates, etc.  Academic Research gave me a total of 18 results, and none of them seemed to be related to my topic.  MasterFILE Premier gave me 6 results, but only 2 of them were related to me topic.  Of the two that were related to my topic, one of them was available in full text.  My research questions have changed somewhat since working with databases.  I've narrowed down my topic a bit in order to find more accurate search results.  My biggest challenge in forming a search question is creating a search string to go along with my research question and getting accurate results for that search string.  In order to overcome this I think I just need to keep trying to formulate different strings to find the results I'm looking for.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Whitney,

    Thank you for your post comparing Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier. You created a very useful search string!

    Is it possible that you would get more results if you reconstructed your search string as follows:

    (people* or teen* or adolescen*) and (steroid*)

    If you haven't already, give it a shot and let me know what you find out!

    Sincerely,
    Professor Wexelbaum

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