Exercise 7
1. Your topic is "should women who abuse drugs during pregnancy be prosecuted?" Use Boolean connectors and truncation to form your search.
Your search in Ebsco is:
2 . Suppose you are researching the following question: "What are the effects of post traumatic stress disorder on women in combat?" However, you want to exclude from your results articles pertaining to rape incidents.
Your search in Ebsco is:
Now limit your results to full-text articles
Next, limit it further to scholarly (peer-reviewed) articles
3. You may not want to believe it, but maggots have squirmed their way to modern medicine!!! Find an article that discusses the use of maggot therapy!
Which EBSCO database is the best to use to find information on this
health related topic?
Your search is:
4. Your friend told you the other
day about an article published in the magazine
"Ms." that discusses the use of prisoners to make profits by the
Federal Prison Industries Inc.! You really want to find this article.
Use Academic Search Premier.
a.
Your search is:
b.
What is the title of the article ?
c. Is there an author?
d. How long is the article?
e. Is this a magazine
or journal article?
f.
Your friend told you that there is no problem getting this article at COCC. How
would you get it?
5. Now I want you to switch
database. From the list of "All Databases" (go back to the list under
"Articles & More" on the library web page), I want you to select
Academic One File. This database can be searched in a similar way with
the Ebsco databases. Do a search on designer babies.
a. what do the following icons in the results list stand for?
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b. Select one of the full-text articles in your results. What’s the article title?
c. How long is it? How many words, how many pages long?
d. What's the name of the journal it was published in?
d. Can you email the article to yourself?
e. How about citing it? Does the database offer you guidance on how to cite the article?