Genocide and Holocaust Studies: Research Project: Databases

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Find a variety of articles & images in these databases about websites about your topic. Make sure to cite them in NoodleTools based on the type of article it is (eg. reference, magazine, newspaper, journal), but always say they were found in a DATABASE or a WEBSITE first. 

A well-balanced bibliography will have a variety of articles:

• Reference articles for background.
• Newspaper & magazine articles for current coverage of a topic.
• Journal articles for deep analysis.
• Websites from:
  • organizations focused on genocide
  • news media
  • research centers 

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• Create a new project in NoodleTools and remember to:
  • Select Chicago Style
  • Select Advanced
  • Give your project a name under Description

• Share your project with your teacher's dropbox.

• To export a bibliography from NoodleTools, watch this.

As you brainstorm about your topic, make a short list of nouns that relate to your subject. These are the keywords you will use to search for information from the databases. Use the following terms in combination with your keywords to improve your research results:

• Use quotation marks around keywords that are phrases
  • "human rights"
• Use truncation (*) to expand a keyword search to anything with the word stem
  • rac* --> race, racism, racist
• AND combines two keywords to narrow search results
  • racism AND genocide
• OR combines two similar concepts to broaden search results
  • "crimes against humanity" OR genocide
• NOT excludes records containing the second keyword
  •  drones NOT bees