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Social-Organizational Psychology Research Guide

Here you will find resources provided by Gottesman Libraries and beyond to support your research and learning in Social-Organizational Psychology. Resources designated (CU) are accessible online through Columbia University Libraries.

Search Tips

Picking Key Words

  1. Use your research questions to pick out essential keywords: see the Venn Diagram on joining topics into a research focus.
  2. Find related terms and synonyms for each concept in your research question. for example:

art museums 

  • Cultural heritage

  • Museums

  • Galleries

Constructing Searches

Most search engines, including Educat+ and CLIO, use standard search language and symbols to convey searches:

  1. Boolean operators connect your terms: AND connects different topics together, OR connects related terms within each topic, NOT removes that search term from results. See the example below.

  2. Quotations: using quotation marks allows you to search for an exact phrase i.e. "Teachers College" instead of 'Teachers' and 'College'.

  3. Parentheses: help group sets of terms to delineate relationships within the search.

  4. Question mark: a question mark in a search has a similar function to an asterisk, but for only one letter i.e. 'wom?n' will capture woman and women.

  5. Asterisks: adding an asterisk at the end of a word will capture related words with the same root or base, i.e. 'philosoph*' will capture philosophy, philosophical, philosopher etc.

Example Search

(“art museum*” OR museu* OR galler*) AND (hiring OR recruit*) AND (divers* OR DEAI OR DEI) AND (manage* OR executiv* OR leader*)

 

Lincoln School Of Teachers College. Summer Demonstration. Recreation Program. (1939). Historical Photographs of Teachers College. Courtesy of Gottesman Libraries.