Finding relevant scholarship
Using Search Everything
Using the default search on the Library website is not perfect, but knowing a few tips for ways to filter your results can help.
- Choose keywords that represent the concepts you are looking for explicitly. You could start with a very general search like Indigenous child welfare Canada, and then perhaps refine your search further by adding phrases like "reconciliation" or "kinship care", for example.
- Use the Discipline/Subject filters to narrow your results to subject matter that is more relevant to your context:
- Social Welfare and Social Work
- Sociology and Social History
- Education
- Women's Studies
- Gender Studies
- Queer Theory
- If you limit your results to Scholarly/Peer Reviewed you will eliminate books. This is not necessarily an issue, but if you find you are having a hard time locating relevant content, you may want to try to take off that limiter and try looking at book content. While books are not the same thing as a peer reviewed article, they are still considered acceptable scholarship for academic assignments.
