Orbis is the Yale University Library's online catalog. This guide provides hints on subject and keyword searching in Orbis for public opinion materials.

Connect to Orbis

Sample subject searches:

Public opinion--United States

Aged--Attitudes

Europe--Politics and government--1945---Public opinion

Law--United States--Public opinion

Islam--Public opinion

Supermarkets--United States--Public opinion

Capital punishment--United States--Public opinion

Peace--Public opinion

 

Using subdivisions in subject searches:

• Use the subdivision Public opinion under names of individual persons, corporate bodies, and topical subjects
• Use the subdivision Appreciation under names of individual literary or artistic persons
• Use the subdivision Attitudes under classes of persons and ethnic groups
• Use the subdivisions Public opinion or Foreign public opinion under individual wars, e.g. World War, 1939-1945--Public opinion; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Foreign public opinion
• Use subdivision Foreign public opinion under names of countries, etc.

Search also under the following related subjects:

Attitude psychology

Knowledge sociology of

Polemics

Press

Propaganda

Public relations

Publicity

Rumor

Scale analysis psychology

Social pressure

Keyword Searching
Keyword searching is a fast way to locate survey results, especially if you aren't familiar with the subject headings.

Sample keyword searches for survey results:

abortion and opinion

aged and (attitudes or opinion)

elections and opinion

europe and opinion

To search for numeric data files for analysis, limit by computer file.