Guide 26. REVIEW OF ONLINE RESOURCES

Welcome to our INFORMATION LITERACY review of online resources

• The objective is to summarize all the databases subscribed to by US University

• To expose you to the free access or open access databases, engines or collaborative systems

• To expose you to something different in searching the internet,

• To introduce you to PEER-REVIEWED information • The journey:100km/hr., only pages & links, the rest

is for you to experience deeply.

Open our student service page and click on US University online

full text databases & Open access online information

http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_library_databases.html

http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_library_information.html

EBSCO: ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER

• EBSCO SIMPLE SEARCH USING BOOLEAN OPERATORS

• EBSCO ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER AND USE OF SUBJECT TERMS

• USE OF INDEXES IN EBSCO DATABASES

• EBSCO Academic Search Premier Visual Search

• Create Alerts and files in EBSCO

By using quotations marks we can transform the words into a phrase. When using the boolean operator “AND” we can search for words or phrases that appear together

while using “OR” filters the search for one or the other word or phrase.In the next slide you will learn how to select the field & expand your results from 5 to 1328.

EBSCO SIMPLE SEARCH USING BOOLEAN OPERATORS

EBSCO simple search using boolean operators

With this example (one of the articles written by Robert H. Stupinsky), take a look at what you can do once you’ve found a good one in EBSCO: you can print it, e-mail it to yourself or any

colleague, save it and even find an example of how to cite it in APA click on Citation.

EBSCO SIMPLE SEARCH USING BOOLEAN OPERATORS EBSCO simple search using boolean operators

You can search from general to specific, choosing to search by all text, by abstract or by title. In this example, select title, reducing results to relevant documents. It all depends on the number of documents

you need for your assignment.

EBSCO SIMPLE SEARCH USING BOOLEAN OPERATORS EBSCO simple search using boolean operators

The words to be searched below are “plagiarism” and “writing essays.” Let’s search first for PLAGIARISM and click the button ADD.

EBSCO ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER AND USE OF SUBJECT TERMSEBSCO Academic Search Premier and use of subject Term

Select for both terms the TI TITLE option and click SEARCH

Guide no. 28. EBSCO ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER AND USE OF SUBJECT TERMSEBSCO Academic Search Premier and use of subject Term

Let’s learn about STUDENT MOTIVATION in Academic Search Premier Index. Write the words in the box Browse for, and select Subject Terms in the Browse an Index box

USE OF INDEXES IN EBSCO DATABASESUse of Indexes in EBSCO database

From 48 documents, limit the results to Full Text, Peer Reviewed Journal and from 2000 to 2010 USE OF INDEXES IN EBSCO DATABASES

Use of Indexes in EBSCO database

Each column has as many articles listed as the number written in each column. To see them, take the mouse at the button of the column, and automatically the column will move

up

EBSCO Academic Search Premier Visual SearchAcademic Search Premier Visual Search

Now start selecting your articles and saving them into your folder called, “CRITICAL THINKING.” Click Add to folder and save them by selecting critical thinking. When you

are finished filing, please open you folder to verify what you have done.Create Alerts and files in EBSCO Create Alerts and Files in EBSCO

Write your email and click Save Alert

Create Alerts and files in EBSCO Create Alerts and Files in EBSCO

Write the email where you want to receive the alerts from your search Create Alerts and files in EBSCO Create Alerts and Files in EBSCO

Your results have been narrowed to 35. In the following slides you will open windows for title, item information, export citation and PDF.

SEARCHING JSTORSearching JSTOR

Access Medicine has more than 60 medical E-books. You can search either CLINICAL LIBRARY or LANGE EDUCATIONAL LIBRARY or both. Do not forget to

include ALL UPDATES when you are in ADVANCED SEARCH. Please go to TEXTBOOKS.

SEARCHING Mc GRAW HILL MEDICAL E-BOOKSSearching McGraw Hill Medical E books

Look at the right side of the screen for important information regarding this article.

OVID DATABASES: AMED Allied and Complementary Medicine

OVID AMED

Before purchasing any articles, check our full text databases to see if they are contained within one of them and read the abstract to be sure the article will be useful in your research.

OVID DATABASE: GLOBAL HEALTHOVID Global Health

The screen below shows the results from the basic search. There are two results from our The screen below shows the results from the basic search. There are two results from our search. The second article is an exact match to what we are looking for, so let’s use this one. search. The second article is an exact match to what we are looking for, so let’s use this one.

The next slide will briefly examine differences between The next slide will briefly examine differences between Abstract,Abstract, Full TextFull Text, and , and Full Text –PDFFull Text –PDF..Searching PROQUEST databaseSearching PROQUEST databaseSearching PROQUEST database

OPEN SOURCES

• DOAR

• DOAJ

• OAISTER

• WHOLIS

• GOOGLE SCHOLAR

• GOOGLE BOOS

Write your terms or words in the search box and click Search. From your results see the titles and also the URLs, all from universities or research/government

institutionsOpen sources

http://www.opendoar.org/

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is also retrievable from our web page. Please select Find articles

Open sourceshttp://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=24

Select your articles and click on the title Open sources

http://www.oclc.org/oaister/

Similarly, with Books we can see originals from the best universities and national libraries from all over the world.

Open sourceshttp://dosei.who.int/uhtbin/cgisirsi/Fri+Nov++6+22:34:49+MET+2009/0/49