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Search Strategy Builder more information
Online worksheet designed to prepare students for database searching through brainstorming ideas and using Boolean search logic. Keywords: Boolean operators, refining search results, effective search techniques
Searching Access World News more information
This interactive tutorial provides students with step by step instructions on how to search the Access World News database. Skills taught include locating Access World News, keyword searching, evaluation of search results, modifying a search using the edit and sort features, locating Arizona news, and printing, emailing or saving articles Keywords: newspapers, QuickHelp, side by side, database research, activities, Arizona news
Searching LexisNexis Academic more information
This interactive tutorial provides students with step by step instructions on how to search the LexisNexis Academic database. Skills taught include locating LexisNexis Academic, keyword searching, evaluation of search results, modifying a search using the edit and sort features, locating editorials and printing, emailing or saving articles. Keywords: newspapers, QuickHelp, side by side, database research, activities
Use LexisNexis to Locate Legal Decisions more information
This interactive tutorial provides students with step by step instructions on using the LexisNexis Academic database to locate US Federal and State legal cases. Also learn to locate online databases and searching the Legal Cases widget. Keywords: newspapers, QuickHelp, side by side, database research, case law, federal courts, state courts, landmark cases
Searching Early English Books Online (EEBO) more information
Learn how to search Early English Books Online, including searching by keyword, locating and retrieving materials (including illustrations, images, and documents). Keywords: EEBO, Early English Books Online, Pollard and Redgrave's Short Title Catalogue, Wing's Short-Title Catalogue Thomason Tracts, Early English Tract Supplement
Searching Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) more information
Learn how to search Eighteenth Century Collections Online, including retrieving illustrations, database scope and publication types and searching by topic. Keywords: QuickHelp, side by side, Gale Imprint Primary Source Microform, Eighteenth Century 1700's
Searching JSTOR more information
This interactive tutorial provides students with step by step instructions on finding and evaluating articles from the JSTOR database. Skills taught include locating JSTOR, identifying a research topic, constructing an effective keyword search, searching the database, evaluating search results, narrowing search results and emailing citations and articles. Keywords: QuickHelp, side by side, keyword searching, choosing research topics, modifying search parameters, search skills
Esri's Business Analyst Online more information
A quick introduction to setting-up a account, setting your location, choosing reports, researching your market, and
Finding Library Materials more information
Learn to find different types of materials, including how to search the catalog and locate maps, newspapers, magazines, journals, books, articles, textbooks, government documents, technical reports, audio/ visuals, and dissertations/ theses. Keywords: fundamental skill, OPAC, locating library resources
Fulltext Searching versus Indexed Searching for Students of Slavic more information
Students will learn the benefits and pitfalls of relying on fulltext searching, and learn strategies to identify and best utilize the functionality electronic databases offer. Keywords: MLA, full text, controlled vocabulary, fields, access points, JSTOR, Google Scholar