Guides & Bibliographies

Ulrichsweb Guide

Introduction

Ulrichsweb is an authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types from around the world. Ulrichsweb usually provides information such as peer review, cost, indexing, formats and reviews.

Ulrichsweb is available to current UT Arlington faculty & students at this webaddress:

eresource.uta.edu/cgi-bin/db-ulrichs.cgi

Searching

A truncation symbol in Ulrichsweb is an asterisk (*), and when this symbol is put at the end of a word, the database will be searched for all of the possible endings--suffixes--for that word. For example, the command "feminis*" will have the computer search engine look for all possible endings of this word. It should find, "feminist," "feminists," and "feminism."

Two Boolean operators that are important in finding information are AND and OR. The AND is used to connect two different concepts and the OR is used between concepts that are synonymous. It is critical to put parentheses around a search expression that contains an OR. Here is an example:

(wom* or girl* or feminis*) AND (POLICY OR POLICIES)

The first part of this statement will find material about the female population and women. The second part will look for the words "policy" or "policies". The AND then links the first set with the second. This might be a way to look for policies related to gender.

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