Browse search for JStor

Compentency #6
ISAR 5013.20

Browse search for JStor

Search Focus:  Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series

I am looking for articles about the author of the Twilight Series, Stephenie Meyer. My search leads yields on hit.  English Journal boasts and article titled "The 2005 Honor List: A Wealth of Books to Compare".

The article has the words "twilight" highlighted in the second paragraph.

Databases: Successive Fraction Search in WorldCat

Competency #6
ISAR 5013.20

Successive Fraction Search WorldCat

Search Focus: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series

Starting with the word "undead", a broad concept I conduct my first search.

A total of 1,984 results are returned.

Now with this broad search the total number of hits is split into nine categories: books, visual, sound, internet, computer, serials, scores, articles and archival. I am looking for a book. I am going to click on the "add more terms to your search?" and enter qualifiers to lead me to a smaller set of results.

The search is reduced to a total of 14 records ranked by "number of Libraries" I need to make sure that this title is available at TWU. I will add in the qualifier field that allows search within "my library" by entering Texas Woman's University's code. I am directed to OCLC to retrieve the code and find out that TWU's library has the title I am looking for.

Databases: Citation Pearl Search (Snowballing) in BIP

Compentency #6
ISAR 5013.20

Citation Pearl Search (snowballing) with BIP

Search Focus: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Series

My Scenario: I am a mother of a teen and she wants to go and see the movie New Moon, based on the book of the same title by Stephenie Meyer. I have a copy of the book in hand and enjoyed the read. I want to find other works by this author. I will enter the ISBN to find the specific title.

The specific record is hit and I see more information like the Author's Name, Publisher and a series title Twilight Saga No. 2. I am going to hit that link. The result of this link is the 25 hits seen below. Expanding further...I am going to look up other work with this particular plot line.

I am choosing to look at Vampires Fiction link and the results returned are much higher.

This results in Snowballing the search to 4,704 results.