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Uncovering Underrepresented Perspectives using Gale Databases

The collections presented herein aim to educate users on the topics of racism, civil rights, and social injustice through a variety of sources.

Basic and Advanced Search

Searching: Filtering & Limiting Tools 

Advanced Search is a great option to quickly generate a targeted list of research results set on one or more search terms and limiters. Advanced Search is a great starting point for a researcher with a well defined research topic.

In addition to providing multiple search fields and limiters, the Advanced Search also offers Search Tips, which provides information on how to utilize Boolean Operators, Proximity Operators, Nesting, and Special Characters to refine and optimize you search. 

 

The Basic Search Results Page includes seven additional search filtering options, allowing you to research a broad topic such as "mental health" and then further narrow your search results by filtering for specific subjects, authors, names of work, publication title, document type and 'person - about', as well as an option to execute an additional key word search within your initial results.  

Additional Research Tools

Power Search

This resource allows users to cross-search content from select Gale products, including Gale's OneFile periodicals, In Context products, and/or eBooks.

Gale eBook InterLinking

Gale's InterLinking technology allows users to quickly access eBook content related to terms within Gale OneFile and Gale In Context resources. Terms with available contextual eBook content with be highlighted in blue within the article text. Clicking on the term will provide a drop down list of related content available within your library's Gale eBook collection. Clicking on one of these article or chapter titles will open another window with that eBook content, allowing you to read valuable contextual content before returning to your chosen database article.

Research Topic Sample Searches

Research Example: Why does 21st Century Urban Planning still lead to segregation in US cities?

Gale Power Search 

Begin with "Advanced Search"

  • Emergent factors to consider: 
    • Inherent discrimination in federal housing policies
    • Urban sprawl and land use
    • Urban planning decisions (e.g., construction of highways as racial demarcation boundaries), government policy (e.g., discriminatory housing and zoning law and public infrastructure decisions), education policy (e.g., segregated and inequitable schools), and strategies of capital accumulation (e.g., real estate redlining, investment/disinvestment) 
Gale In Context: U.S. History

Begin with the "Segregation" Topic Page

Throughout your search consider the authors and publishers of each article. Are you examining content with a diverse array of voices in terms of gender, ethnicity, location, and social-economic background?