History Resource Center: World SWOSU Database Dale Evans

Class Objectives: Class will.. Know database Access database Navigate database Complete exercise Rudimentary Boolean knowledge Complete class evaluation

History Resource Center: World Comprehensive collection of award-winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications Includes images, maps, and charts Ancient Europe to Latin America, from the Far East to the Renaissance Over 1800 primary sources Over 27 reference titles, 110 journals

Examples of Boolean

Wild Cards * is used for truncation at end of word, will replace any number of letters. Pigment* yeilds: pigment, pigments, pigmentation. ? = replaces exactly one character. ! Used for one (or no) characters.

Reference Materials: Some are viewpoint essay Others are topics (See related topics or related subjects) Also note the table of contents Little camera symbol = picture Speaker symbol = sound Film strip symbol = video

Save your material Note the email icon (you can email to yourself or just print now.) HTML keeps fonts & internal links when emailed. Plain text = plain words & links won’t work except in a browser. Emails should be received in 10 seconds.

Click on Chronology & enter: Roman Empire

Primary Sources Primary sources are first hand accounts of an event. Could be an image or text. See little scroll button to see images. Images are all JPEG form – right click to save as a picture on your computer. You can send as an attachment.

Assignment Select World, Search Person: Joseph Stalin, then select Periodicals. Number of Hits:___ Select World, Search Subject: Cold War, then select Periodicals. Number of Hits:__ World only, Search Advanced for MI5 AND Russia, then select News. Hits:___

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