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The Salisbury University Resource Finder (SURF) is a federated search; this means it will search across many library sources from one search box. You can use SURF to search for books (both physical books located in the library and eBooks), newspaper and magazine articles, books your professor has left on course reserves, scholarly articles, academic journals, and databases.

You can find many scholarly articles using SURF. When you use the SURF search box, your search results will include a menu on the left side with a variety of facets that will refine your results by limiting your search to certain perimeters. For example, if you want to limit your search to only articles that are peer reviewed, you will want to use the facet "Peer-reviewed Journals" facet under "Availability."

If you don't limit the search to only peer reviewed articles, SURF will still let you know if an article is peer reviewed via the purple peer review icon.

Not every option will be found in the Salisbury University Resource Finder (SURF). Some databases, such as Statista, are not indexed and there are also times when a database search may make more sense for your research needs. If you want to find more focused results within a certain discipline of study, searching individual databases can be really useful. 

From the Database A-Z List you can search databases by subject, vendor, or title/keyword.

By searching by subject you can find databases in a variety of business disciplines including, accounting, business, information systems, and management.

When looking at records within database you will see a few ways by which you can access the article immediately:

• HTML Full Text
• PDF Full Text (or a similar Get PDF option)
• View at Publisher

When those options are not available, you may see a "find it" option.

The find it option will check other SU databases for the article or take you to an option to request the article via Interlibrary Loan (ILL). ILL requests are pretty fast, so I wouldn't recommend skipping this option if the article looks relevant to your needs!

Boolean operators tell the search engine how to connect your keywords together, and significantly affect the search results. Note: when using the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT, you should type them in all capital letters.

"Quotation marks"

Use quotation marks around a phrase you want kept together. For example to search for "Organizational behavior," you will want to include quotation marks around both words.

Asterisk*

Use at the end of a word stem to search all possible endings of a word. For example if you search organization* using an asterisk at the end of the word, your search will include terms such as organizational, organizations, organization, etc. Mange* with an asterisk at the end will search management, manager, manage, manages, etc.

AND

Use the word AND typed in all capital letters between keywords or phrases when you want every result to include them. For example, search the words "Organizational behavior" in quotation marks, then include the boolean AND followed by the search term stress.

OR

Use the word OR typed in all capital letters between keywords or phrases when you don't care which term is included in a result, so long as at least one of them appears. This is most often used when you string together words of similar meaning to capture more search results, or if you aren't sure which research area to focus on. For example you may search diversity OR inclusion OR discrimination. Another example might be the search word stress OR strain OR "emotional distress", with emotional distress in quotation marks.

NOT

Use the word NOT typed in all capital letters to designate specific words or phrases you do not want included in your search results. Useful if you need to refine your search after getting too many irrelevant results. For example, stress AND workplace NOT diet.

(Parentheses)

To prevent misreading your search, use parentheses to enclose OR strings. For example, (stress OR strain) in parentheses AND (workplace OR employer OR organization) in parentheses AND "management practices" in quotation marks.