1. History Resource Center: World
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: 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

7. Examples of Boolean

8. 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.

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 icon (you can to yourself or just print now.)
HTML keeps fonts & internal links when ed.
Plain text = plain words & links won’t work except in a browser.
s should be received in 10 seconds.

15. Click on Chronology & enter: Roman Empire

17. 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.

18. 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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