1. Search like a Ninja

2. Things to think about?
Author
Purpose
Objectivity
Accuracy
Currency

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

4. 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

5. *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

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

7. 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”

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

9. Boolean Logic Or – finds documents with at least on word included
player OR athlete

10. 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.

11. 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

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

13. Go to:
Click the LRC tab

14. Click Online Databases
Go to:
Click Online Databases

15. 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

16. Click on the preferred database
Go to:
Click on the preferred database

17. Click on EBSCOhost

20. Any Questions?