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Finding Articles Through EBSCO

Finding Articles Through EBSCO. Special Guest: Mrs. Cumberlander. Planner: SF #4: EBSCO HW: Study for Quiz ( ), Find 3 Articles/books ( ). Standards & GLO’s.

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Finding Articles Through EBSCO

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  1. Finding Articles Through EBSCO Special Guest: Mrs. Cumberlander Planner: SF #4: EBSCO HW: Study for Quiz ( ), Find 3 Articles/books ( )

  2. Standards & GLO’s CCSS.W.7.8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources, using search terms effectively; assess the credibility and accuracy of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation. GLO #6 Effective and Ethical User of Technology

  3. EBSCO Database • From the lifescienceswahiawa.blogspot.com website, find the link to the side that gets you to the Library (EBSCO) • Choose Wahiawa Middle School • Log in • User ID: wahiawams • Password: wahiawams

  4. Types of Information in EBSCOHost “Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. … Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags.” -- EBSCOHost

  5. Choosing a Database • Choose databases by topic. • General News Database • Computer Science/Engineering • Earth/Environment • History • Literature • Or, you can choose all the databases to access as much information as possible.

  6. Field Indicators • **Field Indicators narrow down your search results to help you find the specific information you want** • Choose All Text – Searches through the entire database for the desired search terms (i.e. results for all articles that have the words “global” and “warming” in them) • Choose Author – Shows results in which your search term is the author (i.e. Author: Global Warming Society) • Choose Title – Shows results in which your search term is in the title (i.e. Title: “How global warming affects you!”) • Choose Subject – Shows results in which your search term is the subject of the article

  7. Boolean Operators • **Boolean Operators help narrow down your results with additional keywords** • Choose And – to include a search term • Choose Not – to exclude a search term • Choose Or – to find either search term

  8. Selecting an Article Once you’ve narrowed down your results to between 20 and 200 articles, quickly read through the abstracts (summary) of each article to find articles that will be useful to you. Click on the title of the article to see the article and its record.

  9. Printing / Saving an Article • Print out the article to read later • Click on the print icon under Tools on the left side of your screen. • Choose the MLA citation & print. • And/Or, save the article on your flash drive • File  Save Page As  Rename file on your flash Drive • Save PDF (Some articles have this option) • It is always good to have a print/file copy of your article to use later.

  10. What do I do if I get “No Results Found” 1) Check your spelling 2) Check your field indicator (i.e. title, author, etc...) 3) Check your boolean operators 4) Revise your search terms • Remember that you need to use search terms and not whole questions • Break up your search terms, ex. Instead of “effects of greenhouse gases”, try “greenhouse gases” in the 1st box and “effects” in the 2nd box

  11. MLA Citation • For this class, we will be doing MLA (Modern Language Association) citation format. • Gore, Al. "Climate of Denial." Rolling Stone 1134/1135 (2011): 76. TOPICsearch. EBSCO. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. • ***We will learn about this more in detail later. For the time being, copy down the MLA citation from EBSCO.*** • Find the citation at the top of the first page of your printed article under “Works Cited”.

  12. Exit Slip What are three things you learned about finding articles through EBSCO?

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