EBSCO for Science Research

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The Intelligent Alternative
Why go ANYWHERE else?
The Academic Research Process An
Inconvenient Truth
Bill Harroff 537-6952
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• Debbie Houk 537-6951
• Interim Director
• Bill Harroff 537-6952
• Reference Information Technologies Librarian
• Meseret Gebremichael 537-6950
• Public Services Librarian
• Sandy Moody 537-6953
• Librarian
• LeAnn Noland
• Library Assistant

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This tutorial will cover the basics in
using the Librarys online resources

• Major Topics Covered
• EZ Button
• Database List
• Information Literacy
• Style the Basics
• Tutorials

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What our BEST students will learn today

• Why I should learn to think GPA .6
• Why a hammer is a good tool, but not the perfect
  or only tool
• How to begin to make your dream into a reality!

Doesnt Google have everything? Why not just go
to Borders or B N? Why would you spend any
time at the Library?
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What is a College Degree Worth?
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The Good Bad News of Research

• Never been easier to do high-quality library
  research!
• Librarys never provided so many outstanding
  resources services for you 24 / 7

• Never been more important for you to do research
  well
• School
• Work
• Extracurricular Social Activities
• Research skills, literacy aliteracy rates have
  never been so poor

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Becoming a Critical Thinker

• Our goal is to provide assistance in
  developinginformation literate students through
  collaboration in the student research process
  resulting in better results (student papers,
  projects, etc.), an increased knowledge base
  the achievement of the information literacy
  standards

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Off Campus Access

• You must have a McKendree username password
  to access Library resources
• Contact 537-6445 or helpdesk_at_mckendree.edu with
  support webpages at http//support.mckendree.edu
  
• Proxy server
• Authenticates McKendree affiliation
• Allows access from any PC connected to the
  Internet
• Establishes compliance with licensing agreements

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Holman Library Wireless Login
8 wireless notebooks for use in the Library
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Information Literacy Defined

• Within the context of lifelong learning and
  the broad information continuum which ranges
  from data to knowledge to wisdom, information
  literacy competency focuses on six broad
  abilities
• to recognize the need for information
  
• to know how to access information
• to understand how to evaluate
  information
• to know how to synthesize information
  
• to be able to communicate information
• to be able to ethically use
  information

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Evaluating Information
Are your sources Relevant? Reliable? Objective?
Current? Appropriate? Suitable? Authoritative?
Peer reviewed is SUPER!
This is where general Internet sources show
their weaknesses
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Holman Library WebPages act as an Information
Gateway

• Menu to resources and services
• Subscriptions to over 60 electronic databases
• Databases available 24 / 7
• Most provide one-click access to FT articles
• Proxy server for off campus access
• Guides to resources by division, major program
• Online support for requesting reference help,
  interlibrary loan, renewing materials,
  instruction and other service assistance

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Library Database Highlights

• I-Share Find Books More Online catalog of
  over 31 million books, DVDs, videos, CD-ROMs,
  audio CDs, ebooks, etc.
• EBSCO Databases Graduate level research tool
• FirstSearch Databases
• Good for starting out
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
• Equivalent of a law school library

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Searching is EZ!
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EZ Search Options
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EZ Search Results
Click on the links to retrieve the articles
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Select VIEW for the most complete information
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Research Process for Locating Quality Journal
Articles

• Selecting a topic
• Choosing a database
• EBSCO Databases
• FirstSearch Databases
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
• Constructing a search
• Performing a search
• Broadening narrowing a topic
• Recognizing full text, citation options

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You may search individual databases one by one
or in groups without using the EZ Button
Try the Database List
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Precise, definitive searches are best
accomplished within the individual database
search engines
For instance, select the EBSCO Databases for
high quality research
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Academic Search Premier is your best source for
FT, scholarly research articles
Academic Search Premier - multi-disciplinary
database with full text for nearly 4,650
serials, including full text for more than 3,600
peer-reviewed titles along with citations
and abstracts to another 5000 journals
But, you may select as many EBSCO databases as
you think appropriate
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Search Options
Review the Appropriate Search Options i.e.
Database / Journal Title / Scholarly
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EBSCO Result List
Click on the Article Titles to Save Time
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Each citation or article includesPrint, Email,
Export and Save Options
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Hooray for EBSCO!!!
Stylin the EASY Way
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Improve Your Search Techniques Boolean operators
and, or, not can
always be used to limit searches
And Combines search terms so that results
contain all of the search words.
i.e. nitrogen oxides and ozone and Illinois

• Or Combines search terms so that results
  contain at least one of the search words.
  i.e. adolescent or teenager
  carbon dioxide or CO2

• Not Excludes terms that are not desired.
  i.e. book not review experiment
  not human

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Varieties of Full Text OptionsHTML, PDF
Linked Full Text
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Varieties of Full Text PDFs include EVERYTHING
the author intended
PDFs include all primary source charts,
graphs, tables, photographs and words
included by the writer
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Bibliographic Style Aids
Why are there styles?
What is their purpose?
APA Style Manual on reserve in the
library Guides are online
http//www.lib.duke.edu/libguide
/cite/works_cited.htm
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The Golden RuleAcademic Integrity Avoiding
Plagiarism

• Do your own work
• Give credit where credit is due

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Cite Your Sources Properly

• Let the reader know whose thoughts are being
  used to make the point and provide the
  appropriate documentation
• Avoid plagiarism
• Do not copy someone elses work. Its fraud!
• No person shall submit as his own to an
  instructor any work which contains ideas or
  materials taken from another without full
  acknowledgment of the author the source.
  McKendrees Academic Integrity Policy

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The Benefits of Citing Properly

• Many students do not seem to realize that
  whenever they cite a source, they are
  strengthening their writing. Citing a source,
  whether paraphrased or quoted, reveals thatthey
  have performed research well and synthesized
  thefindings into their own argument. Using
  sources showsthat a student is engaged in "the
  great conversation," theworld of ideas, and that
  the student is aware of otherthinkers' positions
  on the topic. By quoting (and citing)writers who
  support the student's position, the studentgains
  strength for the position. By responding
  reasonably to those who oppose it, the student
  shows that there are valid counter arguments. In
  a nutshell, citing helps make the essay stronger
  and sounder.

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Circulation

• Collections
• Books
• Reference
• Periodicals
• Government Documents
• Juvenile/Curriculum
• Special
• DVDs, Videos, Audio CDs, CD-ROMs, eBooks
• Circulation Periods / Charges
• 4 weeks for undergraduate students
• 1 week for media
• Lost materials charged for replacement
• Student Overdue fines for reserve materials only

FREE
FREE
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Tutorials
Tutorials are available any time and cover almost
every one of our databases
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Precise, definitive searches are best
accomplished within the individual database
search engines
For instance, select I-Share for high quality
books, DVDs more
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I-Share
Over 32 million items from 75 academic libraries
across Illinois Online requests for material from
an individual library or Universal
Catalog Courier service delivers materials to
the library for pickup by requestor
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I-Share Searching Techniques
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I-Share Reading the Results
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I-Share Reading the Record
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Requesting Through I-Share
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