Undergraduate Guide to Korean Studies: Home

This guide will help you use the Libraries search Engine, OneSearch, to:

• Search effectively to find resources to write your class papers
• Write about topics that you are excited about

• How to find Scholarly Books and eBooks
• How to find Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
• Understand what Information the Libraries Search Engine gives you to make finding resources easier.

OneSearch will simultaneously search for:

• books
• scholarly articles in peer-reviewed scholarly journals
  • includes articles that are book reviews
• newspaper articles
• databases

Understanding the Format Types

Each format below links to an in-depth guide on how to locate more resources of that type.

After you search OneSearch with several keywords relevant to your topic, the results page will have filters on the left. Use the "Full Text Online" filter and then you also select the "Book / eBook" filter to only get eBooks. Journal articles and are almost always digital and do not require the "Full Text Online" filter.

Compare a search for "kpop" with the following filters active:

• No filters (20,000 results)
• Filter for Books Only (85 results)
• Filters for eBooks Only (55 results)
• Filters for Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Only (835 results)

You can use Zotero. It's free software that works with your browser to make tracking your sources and citing them later much easier. Check out the Libraries guide on using Zotero.
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