A scholarly article is published in an academic journals or an edited book. It is much shorter than a book-length study, and hence tends to focus on certain detailed aspects, and sometimes just a facet, of a bigger topic. Because of that, when searching for articles, one will usually apply more specific concepts or keywords to make the search effective.
There are different means to look for articles in the UofT library system:
You can simply go the Library home to start an "Article Search" of the concepts or keywords you have. In the example below, it asks the system to look for articles that contains "Chinese independent documentary" and "censor*" (the * sign --- the truncation mark of the system to expand the search to any words starting with 'censor', ie censors, censorship, etc. )
This search will retrieve many "Full-Text" articles. If you want, you can check "Scholarly journals" in the left-side bar to filter out non-scholarly articles:
A general "Article Search", as mentioned above, tends to bring up an overwhelming number of results with questionable relevancy. To make retrieved results more pertinent to your needs, consider going to specific "subject" databases to do the search.
For this course, below is a list of recommended databases to explore:
Another way to look for articles is to browse academic journals related to Chinese documentary films:
In addition, you may also consider using:
If you have questions about any above-mentioned databases or how to develop a search strategy, contact Lucy (lucy.gan@utoronto.ca) for assistance.
