Search like a Ninja

Things to think about? Author Purpose Objectivity Accuracy Currency

Become a url detective .com – sell goods and services .org – not-for-profit .gov – official information .edu – educational institution .net – personal web pages

Google vs. Google Scholar Google – Broad scope, includes resources regardless where they come from, is not based on research Google Scholar – focuses on scholarly literature (articles, theses, books, abstracts…) found on websites such as academic publishers, professional societies, universities and more --still be careful

*Truncation Truncation – Using an * symbol at the end of a word stem in a keyword search to retrieve variants of the root Librar* Library Libraries Librarian Tattoo* Tattoos Tattooed Tattooing Tattooist Electric* Electrician Electricity Electricute

…offers options to create logical relationships among search terms Boolean Logic …offers options to create logical relationships among search terms

Boolean Logic Quotation Marks – allows groups of words to be searched as a phrase “high school students” “Art Institute of Chicago” “King of Rock and Roll” “working mothers”

Boolean Logic And – is the default term and is the small overlap where both terms are in a document

Boolean Logic Or – finds documents with at least on word included player OR athlete http://lib.colostate.edu/tutorials/boolean.html

Resources Britannica Online - Explore the fact-checked online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of objective articles, biographies, videos, and images from experts. Points of View- resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.

Resources Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) – Education literature and resources TOPICsearch – full text for over 150,000 articles from 472 diverse sources from periodicals, biographies, public opinion pols and government information. Newspaper Source – cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 newspapers Health Source – database for consumer health information Advanced Placement Source – HS students enrolled in AP courses… 5500 full –text academic journals

How to Find a Journal Article User name & password: s5661556 password OEHS website -> LRC tab -> Online databases tab -> EBSCO

Go to: www.sd308.org/oehs Click the LRC tab

Click Online Databases Go to: www.sd308.org/oehs Click Online Databases

Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) – Education literature and resources TOPICsearch – full text for over 150,000 articles from 472 diverse sources from periodicals, biographies, public opinion pols and government information. Newspaper Source – cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 newspapers Health Source – database for consumer health information Funk and Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia – 25,000 entries covering a variety of subjects Advanced Placement Source – HS students enrolled in AP courses… 5500 full –text academic journals

Click on the preferred database Go to: www.sd308.org/oehs Click on the preferred database

Click on EBSCOhost

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