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Photography and Related Media

How do I find articles on the Library website?

Covers how to search for articles using Search Our Library, using the Advanced Search option to refine a search, as well as left menu bar options to limit to a particular resource type.

Learn how to use quotes when searching for a person, and how to limit to just article results when using the "Search Our Libraries" tab.

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How do I browse online versions of a specific magazine or journal?

 Whether in the Library or remote, you can browse art journals and magazines:

Screenshot of the library website with the Databases tab selected and an arrow also pointing to the button that says: search periodicals by title

  1. On the library website, go to the Databases tab.
  2. Choose the option to "Search Periodicals by Title" and search for the name of a magazine or journal you're hoping to browse
  3. Choose the entry for that journal or magazine that says "available online" in green.
  4. Within the record for that journal or magazine choose the database coverage that is either most current (it will say that the coverage is "to present" or covers the range of years you are most interested in browsing.
  5. Once you have clicked into that database access you should be able to select a year and volume / issue to view the articles.

Browse Photography Journals

Databases for Photography Research

Advanced Search Strategies

Use quotes around a phrase to find words together in sequence. For example:

"Climate change"

"Voter suppression"

Use truncation (an asterisk) and wildcards (usually a question mark or exclamation point).

  • child* and education

  •  globali?ation and analysis

Child* brings up child, children, childhood, and any other word that starts with the root "child." This works in most of the databases.
Globali?ation brings up items with the words globalization or globalisation.
If you don't use truncation and wildcards, some databases will look for an exact match to the words you type, and you may miss some relevant materials. (Warning: If you shorten the root word too much, you will bring up irrelevant items (soc* will bring up society and social and socioeconomic, but also Socrates).

To limit a google search to certain domains, enter your search as follows:

"climate change" site:.gov

"police violence" site:.org

Some material above adapted from Northeastern Library's top ten search tips