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Guide for Using the TexShare Databases

Guide for Using the TexShare Databases. Compiled by Clarendon College Library Staff . Library Home Page. Welcome to the library homepage. Click to begin your search of the TexShare Databases. . TexShare.

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Guide for Using the TexShare Databases

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  1. Guide for Using the TexShare Databases Compiled by Clarendon College Library Staff

  2. Library Home Page • Welcome to the library homepage. Click to begin your search of the TexShare Databases.

  3. TexShare • TexShare provides full-text articles from encyclopedias, almanacs, journals, and newspapers. The database include a wide range of topics as well.

  4. TexShare • Scroll down the page until you see the heading Complete List of Licensed Databases. • Under the heading Books and Literature. Click Contemporary Literary Criticism.

  5. TexShareGale Literary Databases • From this window, you can search by author’s name, title of work, year or publication, year of author’s life/death, ethnicity, or gender.

  6. GALE • Search “Ambrose Bierce” • Be sure to click the Contemporary Authors tab. • Then Select the article that is appropriate for your research needs.

  7. TexShare • If you scroll further down or back up on the TexShare page, you will find a wealth of information on any number of subjects. • The most used databases are: • EBSCO host • Gale Literature Resource Center • WorldCat • InfrTrac

  8. EBSCO • Click on EBSCO Academic Search Complete. • Search the word “Texting” under EBSCO Academic Search Complete and click search.

  9. EBSCO • There are 2797 results for “texting”. • Let’s narrow by clicking the following: • Full Text • Change Pub. Date to 2010 -2012, then update • Pick a types • Academic Journals, then update

  10. EBSCO • We now have only 140 results. • Now click on the title of the one you want to open. • The Journal will open to the Detailed Record • Click on Full Text

  11. EBSCO • You have many thing you can do. • Translate • Print • E-mail • Listen • Download • And More

  12. EBSCO • Click on Cite to get the MLA Citation needed for research papers. You may have to scroll down to find MLA.

  13. Explore the Databases • The databases may be set up different but they generally work the same way. • Not all the databases have the same special features where you can: • Print • Email • listen to the document being read aloud.

  14. TexShare • You can also search for a certain Magazine if you know the Title and Publication Date. • Start at the TexShare homepage and Click TDNet Journal Locator.

  15. TexShare • For this search let say we know there is an article in the New Yorker put out in June of 2012. • First type in the title • Than pick a database you what to use.

  16. TexShare • Then pick the Issue or date.

  17. TexShare Thank you for taking the time to go through the TexShareDatabase Guide. REMERDER your Library Staffs is here to help you with anything you need, just let us know.

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