Maysville CTC English 101 Research Tutorial: 2. Refine

A search in Primo will return a list of results, a combination of books, visual, audio, e-books, e-reference books, journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.  

Your search may return a significantly large amount of results, so you will need to decide what material type you need.

There are

• Books used for more in-depth research, print or e-books
• e-reference books can be used for quick, but authoritative background information.
• Visual can be DVDs or streaming video.  
• Audio Books on CD.
• Journal articles for scholarly research that include references, citations, data, methods, etc.
• Magazine articles for quick, current information but does not include research information.
• Newspaper articles that have very current news items.

"How do I decide what material to select?"

Three main search options appear at the left side of the search results. They are:

• Show Only: groups items by "Peer-Reviewed Journals", "Full Text Online", "Available in the Library". This option narrows search results to scholarly type journal articles, items such as e-books or magazine/journal articles that the full text of the items are available online, and by which library or campus has the print copy of an item.
• Refine My Results: This option allows you to select by Resource Type, Location, Subject, Author, Date, Database, Journal Title, and other possibilities. 
• Suggested New Searches: This option includes searching by additional authors and related subjects.