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Global Studies Research Seminar

Google Scholar

Use the Google Scholar search function in the Search Box of the Library website to look up a Book or Article you know.

Under the citation and abstract of the work you searched for, you will find two links:

1) Cited By: Will retrieve articles that cite your original work

2) Related Articles: Will retrieve articles that share references with your original work

In both cases the assumption is that if a work is cited in another article, both works share a common line of inquiry.

3) Search Within Citing Articles

Check the "Search Within Citing Articles" box to add another keyword to the results of your citation search.

 

Reference Searching Basics

•Cited Reference Searching allows you to "go forward in time" from a book or article you know to newer books or articels which have cited your original source since it has been published.

•Normally you look at the end of a book or article for the references cited, all of which have been published earlier than the piece you are reading.
For example, when I read Keith Basso's "Portraits of "The Whiteman" which was published in 1979, all works cited are dated earlier than 1979. 

•However, if I want to know who has cited Basso's work since it has been published, I will use the "Cited Reference" searching approach.

 

Why Use Cited Reference Searching
•To establish the impact of a given book or article:
the more often it's been cited the more "important" it is

•To find a series of related works that update (rather than predate) the work I know.

•To investigate the intellectual history of an idea, method or scientific approach. The assumption is that if an author cites a given work, she is engaging with at least one idea in that work. Thus we can follow a thread of research or reasoning by doing a cited reference search.
For example in "Portraits..." Basso explores joking in intercultural encounters. By finding out who has cited this work, I can find more recent works on this subject.


Databases with Cited Searching

Many Databases the Library offers allow for Cited Reference Searching

•Always use "Advanced" search form and check the search options in the drop-down menu
•Most often there is a "Reference" option that will allow you to search for references cited

Especially for Thesis writers:

Disserations & Theses @ The New School

Dissertations & Theses Fulltext

All Annual Review databases ("Cited Author" only)

•In full text databases such as Project Muse and JStor search for an author or a specific work by putting parentheses around the name or title
Examples: "Karl Marx" or "Critique of Pure Reason"

•Using parentheses around titles of works will also give you better results when searching for references in other databases.