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TIPS FOR SEARCHING

TIPS FOR SEARCHING. Ancilla College. Next. Objectives. Know how to use subject headings to find new search terms. Judge the appropriateness and relevancy of an article by the abstract. Know how to access the full text of an article. Know how to email the full text and citation to yourself.

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TIPS FOR SEARCHING

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  1. TIPS FORSEARCHING Ancilla College Next

  2. Objectives Know how to use subject headings to find new search terms. Judge the appropriateness and relevancy of an article by the abstract. Know how to access the full text of an article. Know how to email the full text and citation to yourself. Next

  3. You’re looking for information about heart attacks. What other term or terms from this article could you substitute for heart attacks to get results? Clinical digest. Exposure to high traffic pollution blamed for setting off heart attacks. Nursing Standard, 10/19/2011, Vol. 26 Issue 7, p19-19, 1/3p, 1 Color Photograph Subjects: Myocardial Infarction; Coronary Heart Disease; Air Pollution; Risk Factors; Health Aspects Back Next

  4. You did a search for information about setting up business possibilities on Mars. According to the abstracts, which of these articles is most likely to be good for your research? Ask a Mars Career Counselor Reaching for the Stars Abstract: Sending humans to Mars, setting up off-world colonies and exploring asteroids may sound like science fiction, but they are in fact short-term commercial realities, requiring proper corporate structures, management teams and business plans. The author, an intern at 4Frontiers, explains how the 'NewSpace' companies of tomorrow are working today. Abstract: The article presents an answer to a question regarding the best job to have at a colony on Mars. Back Next

  5. Which article’s full text includes pictures and other visuals because it’s a scanned version of the article? Click in the appropriate place to get the full text. Time travel. By: Chown, Marcus. New Scientist, 10/8/2011, Vol. 212 Issue 2833, p50-51, 2p HTML Full Text 2. Trip Travel-Time Reliability: Issues and Proposed Solutions. By: Rakha, Hesham; El-Shawarby, Ihab; Arafeh, Mazen. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Oct-Dec2010, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p232-250, 19p; DOI: 10.1080/15472450.2010.517477 PDF Full Text Back Next

  6. Which article’s full text includes an audio version of the text? Click in the appropriate place to get the full text. Time travel. By: Chown, Marcus. New Scientist, 10/8/2011, Vol. 212 Issue 2833, p50-51, 2p HTML Full Text 2. Trip Travel-Time Reliability: Issues and Proposed Solutions. By: Rakha, Hesham; El-Shawarby, Ihab; Arafeh, Mazen. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Oct-Dec2010, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p232-250, 19p; DOI: 10.1080/15472450.2010.517477 PDF Full Text Back Next

  7. You want to copy and paste the citation for this article into a document. What icon do you click to get the citation? Back Next

  8. You want to email the citation and full text of the article to yourself. Which icon will let you do this? Back Next

  9. INDEPENDENT EXPLORATION AND REFLECTION: Mission Possible: Find a full text article on the health benefits of swimming and email the full text article and citation in APA or MLA format to yourself. Play for mission or read summary below. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: to do a search for a full text article on the health benefits of swimming, and email the text and citation in APA or MLA format to yourself. This is your chance to practice doing a real search using what you’ve learned. Use Academic Search Premier to maximize your chances of finding full text. Start at www.ancilla.edu. To ponder: Did you find a PDF or an HTML article? Which do you prefer, and why? When you opened the email, did you find the link that takes you back to the article in EBSCO? Why would you want to email this information to yourself? Back Next

  10. Great Job! Your Options: If you’ve finished this tutorial with confidence, and you’re not a nursing student, then congratulations! You’ve finished! If you’ve finished with confidence and you’re a nursing student, you’ll probably want to go on to tutorial Module 5: Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Not ready for tutorial Module 5: MeSH? Go back to beginning of Module 4: Search Tips. Did OK but want to practice this again as refresher? Go back to beginning of this PowerPoint. Back

  11. Congratulations! Myocardial Infarction is the proper medical term for heart attack. It’s the best subject term to use! Back

  12. Well, Coronary Heart Disease will get you information about heart attacks, but it will also get you information about a lot of other heart issues. Probably not the worst term to use, but probably not the best, either. Back

  13. Sorry! While Air Pollution might contribute to heart problems, searching for just Air Pollution will bring up lung problems, too. It will also bring up environmental topics— not at all what you’re looking for! You could use this as a Boolean AND search only if you’re looking for information about how air pollution contributes to heart attacks. Back

  14. Risk Factors cover a lot of ground—it’s too broad a term by itself. Risk Factors for what? Cancer? Asthma? But it’s an option for a Boolean search. Combine heart attacks AND risk factors and you have a great way to get specific information about the risk factors of heart attacks! Back

  15. Health Aspects cover a lot of ground—it’s too broad a term by itself. Health Aspects for what? Diabetes? Influenza? But it’s an option for a Boolean search. Combine heart attacks AND health aspects and you have a great way to get specific information about the health aspects of heart attacks! Back

  16. While it might be fun to have a job on Mars, this article isn’t about what’s needed to make a business on Mars, but rather about what jobs might be available once the businesses are there. Back

  17. Great job! This article is perfect for research about what’s needed to set up a business on Mars. You’re ready for the next challenge! Click here.

  18. Great Job! PDFs have pictures, graphs, and charts because it’s a scanned version of the original article. Click here for the next challenge.

  19. Great Job! HTML doesn’t have pictures and other visuals, but it does have audio! You’re ready for the next challenge. Click here.

  20. Sorry! HTML doesn’t have pictures and other visuals —HTML looks like someone just typed the text. Back

  21. Sorry! PDFs don’t have audio —they’re scanned versions of articles. Back

  22. Super! You can copy and paste both APA and MLA now by scrolling down to the appropriate citation format. Click here to move on.

  23. Sorry! That choice doesn’t get you the citation! Try again!

  24. Excellent! You can email this article to yourself now! Don’t forget to fill out all the information and to change the citation format! On to the final challenge.

  25. Sorry! That choice doesn’t allow you to email! Try again!

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