Assignment 4

Note: your assignment needs to be typed!

1.  What types of materials does Ebsco allow you to search for (books, articles, free web sites, etc)?

2.   Which Ebsco database would you use if you were researching a health related topic (i.e., which of the Ebsco databases is best suited for such a research...)? 

3. What is the difference between magazine versus journal articles?

4.  How would you limit your Ebsco results to scholarly publications after you type in your search words?  BE SPECIFIC!

5.  What kind of search would you perform to find articles on marsupials other than kangaroos (i.e., you will need to exclude kangaroos from your search results)? Make sure that you use a. Boolean connectors and b. truncation.

Your search is (state the whole search here in one line):

6.  Recent news report that minorities pay a much higher interest rate on mortgage loans than whites.  Put together a search in Ebsco to find articles on this topic using all three search techniques: a. Boolean connectors, b. phrase searching, and c. truncation.  

Your search is (state the whole search here in one line):

Now double check on yourself....  In your search above you used (mark with an X):
___ only "key" terms
___ phrase searching
___ the Boolean connectors
___ truncation (*)

7. Using Ebsco locate an article written by Andrew Singleton and JaneMaree Maher which discusses men's involvement in doing housework.  Provide for this article:

Title of article:

Name of periodical where article appears:

Volume number:

Pages:

Date of publication:

Is this a full text article?

8. Now using the evaluation criteria we discussed in week 2 , describe and evaluate the article you located above (question #7):

a. What do you know about the authors and how well published are they?  Explain how you found information about them.

b. Is this a journal or magazine article and why do you think so?

c. Would the currency of this article be important if you had to use it for a paper on a similar topic? Explain why.

d. How is information presented and supported (is based on opinion, other studies, authors' own research, etc) ?

e. Would you use this article for a college level research project?