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Using CSA databases (e.g. LLBA, Life Sciences)

Search tips
Reading results & refining your search
Printing articles
Citing, saving, emailing, or exporting results to RefWorks

Search tips:
Click on the Advanced Search tab. Advanced search mode helps structure your search:

Typing in your search terms:

• AND connects keywords:
  • children’s voice disorders will only retrieve records that contain those three words immediately next to each other, in that order.
  • voice disorders and children will retrieve all records in which the phrase speech disorders and the word children appear.
• OR allows you to search for similar ideas: speech disorders or voice disorders. To use OR, click on the down arrow next to and.
• Use * to search for variations on a root word: child* gets child, child's, childhood, children, children’s.

• Benefits of multidatabase searching: It’s quicker, the results are broader, it provides a multidisciplinary overview of your topic.
• Benefits of individual database searching: It’s more targeted, fewer results but more in-depth depth, it allows use of thesaurus/specialized headings for that discipline.

Thesaurus: An academic discipline often has a unique language of terms specific to it. The thesaurus can help you determine whether there’s a discipline-specific term for the idea you’re researching.

Reading results & refining your search:

In the example below:
The title of the article is “The Prevalence of Stuttering, Voice, and Speech-Sound Disorders in Primary School Students in Australia.”
The authors are David H. McKinnon, Sharynne McLeod, and Sheena Reilly.
The article was published in volume 38, issue 1 of the journal Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools and appears on pages 5-15.
It was published in January 2007.

You can view the article abstract or summary by clicking on article title or View Record.

Peer-Reviewed Journals: Clicking on this tab will eliminate results that appear in journals that are not peer-reviewed (e.g. trade journals).

Descriptors: Clicking on a descriptor will change your search and show you all the records that use the descriptor as a keyword. The descriptor list can also be used for brainstorming—they can help you rephrase a search for more targeted results.

Printing articles:
CSA databases do not contain full-text articles, but we might have online access through another database.
Click on the button and a new window will open. If you see Article, the article is available online and should appear when you click the Article link. Example:

If you do not see Article, please talk to a reference librarian.

Citing, saving, emailing, or exporting to RefWorks:
To mark items you want to save, email, or export click in the box to the left of the item record.
When you’ve marked all the records you want, click on the Save, Print, Email link or the RefWorks icon.
Select a bibliographic style format from the pull-down menu.
Select email, save, print or export to RefWorks.