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MFT 8302 : Principles of Educational Research: Limiters

Limiters

Limiters

Limiters will make your search results smaller.

available at West Library

Retrieves only documents that are available physically in the West Library, or are available in one of the West Library’s online databases

Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals

Limits search results to articles from peer-reviewed journals. Peer-reviewed journals are publications that include only those articles that have been reviewed and/or qualified by a selected panel of acknowledged experts in the field of study covered by the journal. 

Published date

 Use this option to search for articles within a specified date range. Create a range by using the drop-down lists to specify the months of the range and enter the last four digits of the year in the entry fields to specify the years of the range.

Full Text

 Click to limit results to articles with full text available from databases, custom links, and local collections.

 

Other Limiters

Quotation marks “”

Limits the search to the words in between the quotation marks

Field Limiters

When selected, limits the search term(s) to the selected field  Example:   Teacher control in TI—limits the words teacher control to the title of every document retrieved

 

Search Everything

Image: Texas Wesleyan West Library webpage showing Search Everything (EBSCO Discovery Service) search bar.