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SPAN 1000: Cultural Difference through Hispanic Literature

Library Catalog

OneSearch is a discovery search platform where you can find articles, books, book chapters, films, and other materials in print and digital format. The dashboard has several features that will help you create folders (Projects) to organize your assignments, save materials to your folders and view your older searches.

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Boolean Operators

It is helpful to know the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT. These operators help you find information in university databases. However, not all search engines use Boolean logic. For example, you do not need to use these operators when doing a search in Google Scholar or any Google search.

Boolean logic helps you connect terms, broaden a search, and exclude terms.

 

Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT graphic. dog AND puppy=both terms are present; dog OR puppy=one term, the other term or both terms are present; dog NOT puppy= puppy is excluded from the search

 

Simple Search and Advance Search

OneSearch's Simple and Advance search provides features that will help you with your search.

Let's try a search - Find:

  • poverty AND Renaissance AND Lazarillo
  • "Golden Age" OR "siglo de oro" AND Lazarillo
  • "picaresque novel" OR "literatura picaresca"

Filtering

  • Use refined features to manage your search by full-text, content type (journal), and language.
  • You can refine your search based on the needs of your assignment.

Download 

When you download a title, you should be able to find your search terms in the abstract, or keywords, or title, and hopefully within the content.

Databases

Exercise - Using your Research Skills

Chose three searches and go to different sources to find information. You can use OneSearch​'s basic or advance search, the databases: Project Muse and JSTOR, and the web search engines Google Scholar, and Google Académico. Compare your results.

  • "the picaro" AND "Christian society"
  • "Social inequality" AND Hispanic AND Renaissance
  • Gender AND lazarillo
  • Renaissance AND "picaresque novel"
  • "cultural differences" AND "Hispanic culture
  • Spanish ballads
  • "Latino culture" AND US OR "United States"
  • "Cultural differences" AND "Spanish-speaking world"
  • "Unfair social structures" AND "Latino culture"
  • "Cultural value" AND Latino
  • Crítica AND "sistema de indulgencias"
  • Honor OR nobleza AND Lazarillo