Exercise  3         

         Using Online Reference sources to find the answers

On the Campus Library homepage, under  "Quick facts: Encyclopedias, Stats, etc," select the appropriate links to answer the following questions:

1. Go to "Virtual collections" and click on the link Librarians' Internet Index.  Can you find out what this web site is about? 

    Do a search for "echinacea".  How many results did you get? How do these results differ from results you get through Google? 
 

2.  Go back to the initial library web page with the different categories of ""Quick facts: Encyclopedias, Stats, etc."  This time look for information on John Steinbeck' life using Gale's Literature Resource Center.  

Is this a "full-text" database?

Can you also find criticism about the author?

3.  Using the links for "Quick facts: Encyclopedias, Stats, etc,"  identify a web source which will tell you what the acronym DADRL stands for.  What does it stand for?

4.  Using the links for "Quick facts: Encyclopedias, Stats, etc," find a definition for the word "anthropomorphic."  What is it?

5.  Find the college catalog for Clackamas Community College.

OR

Take a "virtual" campus tour of Cornell University.

6.  Your instructor wants you to use the APA style for your citations and bibliography in your research paper.  Identify a web site that will provide you guidance and examples on the APA style guide.  What web site did you use?
 

7. Now find some encyclopedic information on woolly monkey.  Where did you find it?

8.  Can you find how much a euro costs in dollars (use the link to Almanacs & quick facts)?

9.  Locate the link to the Encyclopedia of Bioethics and click on it to enter the Thomson Gale databases ("Gale Virtual Reference Library" ).  Do a word search to see if there is information on the topic of "sociobiology".   

What is sociobiology?  

Provide a short citation of an article you found in this web site:

Title of article:
Name of main source:
Author:

10. 

•  Locate the site for the Statistical Abstract of the United States. 
•  Click on the appropriate link for the latest edition. 
•  Scroll down and locate the INDEX (it's not easy to see! Look towards the bottom of the screen for "Index").
•  Use the index to find the table number which will give you information on the average expenditure (price) on new cars. 
•  Once you identify the table number, click on the back button of your browser to go back to the list of table numbers. 
•  Using the latest edition, select the appropriate range of numbers where your table is included 
•  Find what the average expenditure on new cars was for the years 1990 vs 2004.