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VIC164: Ideas & their Consequences: Literary & Artistic Realms of the Imagination

Databases & search strategy for journal articles

Sample search strategy:

You can use this kind of formula in most databases and library search tools, simply substitute the search terms with your artist name and themes or key concepts. The "Anywhere except full text" search option (all the fields that describe what the source is about) is a feature on the ProQuest database interface (many different subject-specific collection employ this same interface).

screen capture of a search in an art database with an artist's name connected by "AND" to three related or synonymous concepts connected by "OR".

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