140 CHAPTER 6 | FRom FIndIng To EvAluATIng SouRCESclick would reveal the title of a relevant book and a new list of subject
headings (Figure 6.4) that differs from those of your initial search. This list
gives you a new bibliography from which you can gather new leads and a
list of subject headings to investigate.
We suggest that you do a keyword search first and then a browse
search to home in on a subject. Especially when you don’t know the exact
subject, you can do a quick keyword search, retrieve many sets of results,
and then begin looking at the subjects that correspond to each title. Once
you find a subject that fits your needs, you can click on the direct subject
(found in each bibliographic record) and execute a new search that will
yield more relevant results.■ Perform a Journal or newspaper title Search
Finally, you can search by journal or newspaper title. For this kind of
search, you will need exact information. You can take the name of a jour
nal, magazine, or newspaper cited in your keyword or browse search.
The journal or newspaper title search will tell you if your library sub
scribes to the publication and in what format — print, microform or
micro film, or electronic.
Suppose you want to continue your search in the New York Times for
information on the English only movement by searching for articles in the
New York Times. You would run a basic search under the category “Peri
odicals”: “Periodical Title begins with.. .” That would give you access to
a limited number of articles that focused on the debate surrounding the
English only movement. To find more recent articles, you could go to
the New York Times Web site (nytimes.com), where you could find many
potentially useful listings. Recent newspaper articles will lack the depth
and complexity of more scholarly studies, but they are undeniably usefulFIGURE 6.4 Results of Browsing Deeper: A New List of Sources06_GRE_60141_Ch6_129_150.indd 140 11/11/14 2:46 PM