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Sociological Abstracts

Universiteitsbibliotheek. Sociological Abstracts. Searching for a compound author name. verder = klikken. Method. Author names are usually found in several variants English-language databases deal inconsistently with prefixes Use Look up authors to find all variants. Look up Authors

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Sociological Abstracts

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  1. Universiteitsbibliotheek Sociological Abstracts Searching for a compound author name verder = klikken

  2. Method • Author names are usually found in several variants • English-language databases deal inconsistently with prefixes • Use Look up authors to find all variants

  3. Look up Authors can be found under Look Up Citation

  4. Bois Desired author: Manuela de Bois-Reymond First search by: surname (WITHOUT prefixes)

  5. The prefix is not include in every instance, which makes it important to pay attention to variants. Mark the relevant name variants.

  6. Use these to find her titles

  7. Return to Look up authors…

  8. … to search in Look up authors …

  9. du bois … by: surname (WITH prefix)

  10. Mark…

  11. and find

  12. Return to Look up authors…

  13. dubois … to find the variant (without space)

  14. In this case: no results. Return one last time to Look up Authors…

  15. Reymond … to search for Reymond as a precaution…

  16. Found another one; mark…

  17. … and search

  18. Now go to Recent searches

  19. Combine the search results with OR

  20. The end result

  21. Overview Search for surname variants using Look up authors In English-language databases when searching names with prefixes, search both with and without these prefixes

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