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Step by Step with CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher offers in-depth reports on current affair and recurring controversial issues. The reports include a list of additional reading and links to selected, high quality internet sites. This handout takes you step-by-step through using CQ Researcher.

Accessing CQ Researcher

1. Access GALILEO http://www.galileo.usg.edu/ and click on Databases A-Z. This is a gold tab in the bar near the top of GALILEO's screen.





2. Click C or scroll down until you reach CQ Electronic Library. CQ Electronic Library currently has the number in the 60. Click the CQ Electronic Library link.
   
   
3. reach CQ Researcher click on CQ Researcher Plus Online Archive.

   

   
   

   To help find a topic, or if your topic is extremely popular, browsing Recent Reports is an excellent strategy.

   
   
   
4. Another approach to finding reports is to Browse by Topic.

   

   
   
5. CQ Researcher’s search engine is located in the medium blue bar at the top of the screen.
   
   
6. There is also Advanced Search.

   

Getting the Most from CQ Researcher’s Search Engine

1. The most important part of any search begins before your fingers touch the keyboard. Look at your topic and pick out its two most important concepts. For example, if you are doing the water supply in the Middle East, your search will probably look like water AND Middle East. The AND is not a word. It is a mathematical operator that stands for the overlap of two ideas much like the circles in the diagram below. Here is how CQ Researcher sees your search.

   

   Key in your search and click the white Go. Note: if you do not see your topic in CQ Researcher, either rephrase your search or try another database. CQ Researcher covers only the most popular topics. LexisNexis and Ebsco Academic Search Complete handle a greater range of subjects.

   
   

   There are similar links to similar reports in the Issue Tracker box in the top right corner of each report.

   
   
2. Reports end with a Bibliography and a section called Next Step which includes carefully selected web pages, as well as references to articles and books.
   
   
3. To print your report, choose Full Report in the scroll box that contains the word, Print. You can also print only selected parts of a report.
   
   
4. To email a report, click Full Report in the scroll box that contains the words: Send as Email...
   
   
5. To save a report, click View PDF. Then save the resulting file to a flash drive.

   

   
   
6. To revise your CQ Researcher search, click the white Home link near the top of the screen.
   
   
7. To end a CQ Researcher session, close the browser or click the Home icon.