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QEN 102 What is Your Lens?

Resources for your QEN project.

Tips for using the databases

  • Use "and" to connect subject terms to narrow a search.
  • Use "or" to connect like terms to broad a search, such as women or female.
  • Use "not" to eliminate results in your original search.
  • Use "" around words you want to group together, such as "music therapy" or "higher education".
  • Use * as a wildcard to associate with a root word to get all results, such as manage* = management, managing, manager, ...

Using NCLive

NCLive is the digital library for North Carolina.  This is an excellent resource and a great place for you to begin a search.  You can search for articles, e-books, videos, and reference materials.  If you are off campus you will need to select Queens University of Charlotte as your user library and then authenticate with your Queens user ID and password. 

Library catalog - How to find books and DVDs

Proquest Search

Advanced Proquest Search

Finding Specific Databases

Google Scholar

E-book search

Streaming video search

Interlibrary loan - ILL

Journal Tab - Search by Journal Title

Quiz link