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Video Game & Interactive Narrative Studies (TriCo)

Finding Scholarly Articles

Before conducting your search: 
 
  • Consider how your argument might be broken down into keywords or phrases.
  • Compile a list of synonyms for those keywords.  What other terms might scholars use to talk about your topic, and how do these terms reflect the type of argument scholars are making?  (E.g., memory vs. nostalgia)
  • Consider which intersections among your keywords will be useful for searching
  • Identify disciplines that are relevant to your research question.  Also consider the ways in which your question might reside outside traditional disciplines or cut across them.
 

Searching for Articles

Begin your search with the relevant subject-specific or multidisciplinary databases.  To search many journal databases at once, use a multi-disciplinary database in the box on the left.  Below are two subject-specific databases relevant for video game studies.  To identify additional subject-specific databases, use the Research Guides.

Once you have found relevant resources, use the  button to get full-text copies of articles.

A separate window will open with links either to a digital copy of the article or an Article request form for ordering material not held by the tri-college libraries. To request items not held locally, simply enter your name and barcode and submit the request.

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