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- 2. A digitalcollection of information: Examples? Examples ◦ AR ◦ PowerSchool ◦ OPAC ◦ Amazon.com
- 3. Why notjust Google it? Databases ◦ All sources have gone through an editing process ◦ Reliable and trustworthy ◦ Source citations are done for you ◦ One-stop-shopping for all of your information needs
- 4. How doyou access the KSLC? www.usd250.org ◦ Schools ◦ Pittsburg Community Middle School ◦ Faculty and Staff ◦ Library Resources ◦ PCMS Library Website The Kansas Library Card
- 5. www.kslc.org PIN Birthdate
- 6. Learning andSchool Resources Middle Search Plus ◦ EBSCO
- 7. Fast andeasy Not many options to limit your results ◦ Limit your results: FULL TEXT ◦ Limit your results: Lexile
- 8. Many optionsto expand or limit results ◦ Select a Field ◦ Boolean Operators ◦ Limit results Full text Lexile Dates
- 9. All Textvs. Subject Terms What does All Text mean? All Text ◦ A word or phrase located in the text of the article ◦ Often produces too many results or irrelevant results
- 10. Subject Term:What is it? A word or phrase describing what the article is ABOUT ◦ Searches only the CONTROLLED VOCABULARY (words used to tag information in a database) ◦ Less flexible, but very relevant
- 11. Always trya subject search first! If the search does not produce many results, try All Text to expand your options
- 12. To locatesubject terms, click on the subjects at the top of screen
- 13. Use BooleanOperators to narrow search ◦ AND ◦ OR ◦ NOT
- 14. Open andview Create notes with option to print Print article Email article Save to folder in EBSCO database
- 15. What doesit mean to cite an article? Cite an article—give credit to your sources Citing from Ebsco ◦ Export to Bibliographic Management Software ◦ Direct Export to EasyBib ◦ Save ◦ Import (without abstracts) ◦ Copy and paste
- 16. Double QuotationMarks Wildcards Truncation
- 17. Use doublequotation marks to search for exact phrases (exact order) Great for use with compound words STOP WORDS such as so, and, the, of, etc. are never searched, regardless of quotations Examples: “heart attack”, “dog house”, “tree house”
- 18. Use forterms with unknown letters or alternate spellings ? ◦ Example: calend?r # ◦ Example: col#r (color or colour)
- 19. Enter theroot word for the search term, along with the truncation symbol (*), and the database searches for all forms of the word Example: educat* Educate Education Educated Educating Educates
- 20. Name formsof the following roots? Examples ◦ Read* ◦ Creat* ◦ Theat*
- 21. Databases AccessingKansas Library Card Creating EBSCO Account Basic Search vs. Advanced Search All Text vs. Subject Term Boolean Operators Citing an article Double Quotation Marks Wildcards Truncation