A search term can be used in combination with another search term to improve the relevance of your search results in databases, the Library's Discover and Catalog searches, and even in Google and other search engines.
To find materials about the arts and cultural aspects of people with disabilities, start with the search term disability then add a second or even third search term.
Examples:
Try searching "disability" as a subject instead of a keyword to limit results to materials that are about people with disabilities. A keyword search only means that your searched term appears somewhere in the text of the books and articles in your results.
As an example, here are just a few of the subject terms we noted when retrieving the books listed on this page:
| Social Science - People with Disabilities | People with mental disabilities in literature |
| People with mental disabilities in motion pictures | Popular culture - social aspects |
| People with disabilities in Art | Artists with disabilities |
| People with disabilities in mass media | People with disabilities and the arts |
| Health in Literature | Musicians with disabilities |
| Blind musicians | Disabilities and popular music |