Salem Press: Decades, Great Lives, Great Events Database

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Salem Press Decades, Great Lives, Great Events
Database

• Very Basic Tutorial to Get You Started

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Basic Searching

• Basic searching searches all purchased Salem
  Reference Sets.
• Search Vietnam War Memorial

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Basic Search Results
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Article Result
Reference Text
Citation help
Breakdown of article.
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Citation Help

• Copy / paste the citation into your document or
  presentation.
• Create a hanging indent and, If necessary, change
  other formatting according to teacher
  instruction.
• Alphabetize your cited sources.
• Example

Lee, Joseph Edward. Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
The Eighties in America, 1st ed. Salem Press,
2008. Salem History. Salem Press. 10 Jun 2009
http//history.salempress.com/doi/full/10.3331/19
80_729gt.
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Use Advanced Search to Search a Specific
Reference Text
Scroll to the FROM box. Check the text that you
want to search. Put your search term in the
result box(es). Search
Click on Advanced Search on homepage.
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Advanced Search Results from The Eighties in
America Reference Text
Search results will all be specific to the
reference title(s) you have selected. Citation
help is the same as previously illustrated. Click
button to review citation slide information
Click on article of interest.
Click home to begin tutorial again.