PWR 1YB Oceans Quickstart Guide: Sample keywords and searching for "oceans"

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Brainstorming for search terms

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Example terms and search results

These are example topics related to the subject "Oceans". After brainstorming words for the topic you are thinking about writing about, click on the example searches and replace your terms for the ones in the examples and see if the results are helpful. Searches are demonstrated using Searchworks, Searchworks Articles + and a multidisciplinary database. You can do the same using Google Scholar.

Searchworks catalog: "Oceans of " in the title
Say you want to see how the term "Oceans of" in the title of books or movies has been used. Here's a list of titles from the Searchworks catalog where "Oceans of" appears in the title. Look at the TOPICS limiters to see what subjects they fall under.

Searchworks: Climate change oceans
In searchworks, use keywords climate change oceans in "all fields". There will be a box after the 3rd result that will give you access to articles and other related resources - if there is a library guide there will be a link to that too.

EBSCO database: Rhetoric climate change
These are results from a search of Academic Search Premier and some additional EBSCO databases selected from the search page. The results have been limited to academic journal articles.

Sometimes you will need to use the FIND IT AT STANFORD link to get the full text of the article

The visual rhetoric of climate change
This article was available through Wiley using the Find It At Stanford link in the EBSCO result list.