The Library at the Center for Graduate Studies of Asheville

As graduate students , you specialize in your field of study. As you learn the lingo of the profession, the names of influential people and theories, and get familiar with popular academic journals in the field, you begin to conduct more informed searches. Citation searching is a shortcut to all this hard-earned knowledge. Using this research technique, you can easily find related resources which you can use to strengthen your reference pool and also gain insight into the field - a holistic view that you can't get when cherry picking individual resources from a results list. Citation Searching: L ook backward  at the references list of a resource.  Look forward  to see if this resource appears on other references lists. Two essential tools:  Journal Finder  and  Powersearch Journal Finder  helps you locate the academic/scholarly journals you have access to as a LR student, as well as other periodical publications, like newspapers and magazines.* Powersearch  lets you sear