Find your major discipline in GALILEO (or a discipline that you are interested in) and search that subject page for a database you've never worked in before. Do a search in that database. What do you think of the results you got? What is the difference between searching in a subject specific database and in Discovery (the tool that searches a bunch of databases at once)? When do you think you’d want to use one over the other?
My major discipline is psychology. The database that I searched in is social sciences which is a database I never worked in everyday. The results I found were of course related to psychology but in several different ways. Some of the results were about Behavioral sciences, Nursing, and medicine. For my subject or actually with any subject your search is narrowed and specifically focused on whatever you are looking for, by searching in the discovery bar and using the Boolean search you end up with way more variety that could help you but could also not help you because of the variety of results they give you. Your search won't always be ONLY about the subject you are looking up in a discovery bar other things that don't even pertain to what you are researching may pop up which broadens your results. Most likely I would use database if I needed straight forward information and a more narrow search I would use the database, however, If I needed more information that was not just about my subject but needed other information that could help me explain my subject I would I would use the discovery bar for a broader search.
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When using the discovery search bar I got some interesting results before learning the Boolean search trick. The straight forward database search helped narrow down to useful results. It is good to know that one broadens and the other narrows searches. These tips and tricks may come in handy for future researching.
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Hi Dajane I think that your outlook on the way you searched for the displine of psychology i was one interested in the field of psychology, but i never knew much about it which made me change my field tosome thing that i knew something about; however, when i searched it on some of the Databases i found out alot about psychology which makes me what to rethink m decision and go back into that field
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