Teaching Secondary Social Studies

• huge American education database which also contains a lot of Canadian information
• you can add Canad* or Alberta to your search strategy as a separate concept to narrow the search results (Canad* will search for Canadian or Canada)

• Canadian education database
• smaller than ERIC, so there will be less need to narrow your topic
• use the ADVANCED search mode to search multiple concepts at once
• contains many "non-academic" journals - limit your search to scholarly journals by checking the Scholarly Journals box below the search

• provides full text of over 400 journals in the field of Education
• unlike CBCA Education, the journals are not necessarily Canadian
• you can add Canad* or Alberta to your search strategy as a separate concept to narrow the search results (Canad* will search for Canadian or Canada)

Developing a search query can be a challenge, but please consider these tips:

• Check out a database's Thesaurus to find appropriate keywords for the item for which you are looking. 

• A longer search query helps databases retrieve more specific resources

• Using "OR" between terms will retrieve more results

• Using "AND" between terms will retrieve less results