Early Searches
When using what I learned off of IRIS it helped me navigate easier through the databases. The boolean operators helped me the most, because adding those in the search field made a difference in the number of results I got– a lot! The three terms I typed in when doing research on each database (EBSCO, CQ Researcher, and ProQuest), I used: ‘Polar Bears on Endangered Species List’, ‘Polar Bears AND Endangered Species List’, and ‘Threatened Species’. On the CQ Researcher, on the first term, I mostly got information, solely, about the Endangered Species List itself. On the second term, I got the same results. On the third, I got a drastic change of way more results– all that seemed beneficial! On EBSCO, for the first term, I got no results. For the second, I came up with 9 search results of articles, and websites. On the third term, I got an overwhelming amount of 992 results. I feel that this term may be too broad for this database. For ProQuest, on the first term, I got a search result of 65, containing documents from journals, articles, newspapers, etc. I had way more to choose from with this database– I know, personally, I will use this database prominently throughout this whole research paper. On the second term, I got 92 results. For the third, again, I got an extreme amount of 2,547 results– that term, obviously, is way too broad for use on this topic.
