1. Guide 26. REVIEW OF ONLINE RESOURCES

2. Welcome to our INFORMATION LITERACY review of online resources The objective is to summarize all the databases subscribed to by US University To expose you to the free access or open access databases, engines or collaborative systems To expose you to something different in searching the internet, To introduce you to PEER-REVIEWED information The journey:100km/hr., only pages & links, the rest is for you to experience deeply.

3. Open our student service page and click on US University online full text databases & Open access online information http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_li brary_databases.html http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_li brary_information.html

4. EBSCO: ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER EBSCO SIMPLE SEARCH USING BOOLEAN OPERATORS EBSCO ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER AND USE OF SUBJECT TERMS USE OF INDEXES IN EBSCO DATABASES EBSCO Academic Search Premier Visual Search Create Alerts and files in EBSCO

5. By using quotations marks we can transform the words into a phrase. When using the boolean operator “AND” we can search for words or phrases that appear together while using “OR” filters the search for one or the other word or phrase. In the next slide you will learn how to select the field & expand your results from 5 to 1328. EBSCO SIMPLE SEARCH USING BOOLEAN OPERATORS EBSCO simple search using boolean operators EBSCO simple search using boolean operators

6. With this example (one of the articles written by Robert H. Stupinsky), take a look at what you can do once you’ve found a good one in EBSCO: you can print it, e-mail it to yourself or any colleague, save it and even find an example of how to cite it in APA click on Citation. EBSCO SIMPLE SEARCH USING BOOLEAN OPERATORS EBSCO simple search using boolean operators EBSCO simple search using boolean operators

7. You can search from general to specific, choosing to search by all text, by abstract or by title. In this example, select title, reducing results to relevant documents. It all depends on the number of documents you need for your assignment. EBSCO SIMPLE SEARCH USING BOOLEAN OPERATORS EBSCO simple search using boolean operators EBSCO simple search using boolean operators

8. The words to be searched below are “plagiarism” and “writing essays.” Let’s search first for PLAGIARISM and click the button ADD. EBSCO ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER AND USE OF SUBJECT TERMS EBSCO Academic Search Premier and use of subject Term EBSCO Academic Search Premier and use of subject Term

9. Select for both terms the TI TITLE option and click SEARCH Guide no. 28. EBSCO ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER AND USE OF SUBJECT TERMS EBSCO Academic Search Premier and use of subject Term EBSCO Academic Search Premier and use of subject Term

10. Let’s learn about STUDENT MOTIVATION in Academic Search Premier Index. Write the words in the box Browse for, and select Subject Terms in the Browse an Index box USE OF INDEXES IN EBSCO DATABASES Use of Indexes in EBSCO database Use of Indexes in EBSCO database

11. From 48 documents, limit the results to Full Text, Peer Reviewed Journal and from 2000 to 2010 USE OF INDEXES IN EBSCO DATABASES Use of Indexes in EBSCO database Use of Indexes in EBSCO database

12. Each column has as many articles listed as the number written in each column. To see them, take the mouse at the button of the column, and automatically the column will move up EBSCO Academic Search Premier Visual Search Academic Search Premier Visual Search Academic Search Premier Visual Search

13. Now start selecting your articles and saving them into your folder called, “CRITICAL THINKING.” Click Add to folder and save them by selecting critical thinking. When you are finished filing, please open you folder to verify what you have done. Create Alerts and files in EBSCO Create Alerts and Files in EBSCO Create Alerts and Files in EBSCO

14. Write your email and click Save Alert Create Alerts and files in EBSCO Create Alerts and Files in EBSCO Create Alerts and Files in EBSCO

15. Write the email where you want to receive the alerts from your search Create Alerts and files in EBSCO Create Alerts and Files in EBSCO Create Alerts and Files in EBSCO

16. Your results have been narrowed to 35. In the following slides you will open windows for title, item information, export citation and PDF. SEARCHING JSTOR Searching JSTOR Searching JSTOR

17. Access Medicine has more than 60 medical E-books. You can search either CLINICAL LIBRARY or LANGE EDUCATIONAL LIBRARY or both. Do not forget to include ALL UPDATES when you are in ADVANCED SEARCH. Please go to TEXTBOOKS. SEARCHING Mc GRAW HILL MEDICAL E-BOOKS Searching McGraw Hill Medical E books Searching McGraw Hill Medical E books

18. Look at the right side of the screen for important information regarding this article. OVID DATABASES: AMED Allied and Complementary Medicine OVID AMED OVID AMED

19. Before purchasing any articles, check our full text databases to see if they are contained within one of them and read the abstract to be sure the article will be useful in your research. OVID DATABASE: GLOBAL HEALTH OVID Global Health OVID Global Health

20. The screen below shows the results from the basic search. There are two results from our search. The second article is an exact match to what we are looking for, so let’s use this one. The next slide will briefly examine differences between Abstract, Full Text, and Full Text –PDF. Searching PROQUEST database Searching PROQUEST database Searching PROQUEST database Searching PROQUEST database

21. OPEN SOURCES DOAR DOAJ OAISTER WHOLIS GOOGLE SCHOLAR GOOGLE BOOS

22. Write your terms or words in the search box and click Search. From your results see the titles and also the URLs, all from universities or research/government institutions Open sources http://www.opendoar.org/ http://www.opendoar.org/

23. Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is also retrievable from our web page. Please select Find articles Open sources http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=24 http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=24

24. Select your articles and click on the title Open sources http://www.oclc.org/oaister/ http://www.oclc.org/oaister/

25. Similarly, with Books we can see originals from the best universities and national libraries from all over the world. Open sources http://dosei.who.int/uhtbin/cgisirsi/Fri+Nov++6+22:34:49+MET+2009/0/49 http://dosei.who.int/uhtbin/cgisirsi/Fri+Nov++6+22:34:49+MET+2009/0/49