1. History Resource Center: US SWOSU Database Dale Evans

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

3. History Resource Center: US  Comprehensive collection of award- winning reference, full-text articles from leading scholarly publications  Includes images, maps, and charts 5,000 primary sources 5,000 primary sources  Over 27 reference titles, 110 journals

7. Examples of Boolean

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

10. 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

11. 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.

15. 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.

19. Assignment  Select US. Search Person: Ronald Reagan. Click on complete name found. Click on Periodicals. Now record the number of articles shown on screen: ________.  Select US. Search Subject: Prohibition. Click on Slave Trade Prohibition Act. Click on Periodicals. Month____, Day__, Year______ of single article.  Select US. Search Advanced for Katrina AND New Orleans. Click News. Record # articles here: _______.  Your Name__________. Your Score______.

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