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Material Available

At Home/ School

• Catalogs• Core EBSCO

At ONU

• Catalogs• Core EBSCO• Unique databases• Books

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Available EBSCO Databases

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Available EBSCO Databases

March 2010

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Resource Providers

• InfOhio – serving Ohio’s schools http://www.infohio.org/ER/ER9-12.asp• OPLIN – serving Ohio’s public libraries

http://www.oplin.lib.oh.us/index.cfm• OhioLINK – serving Ohio’s college and

university libraries http://www.ohiolink.edu

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Printing, Downloading, Saving

• All three catalogs allow you to mark entries and later to save or E-mail them.

• Most databases offer the same options• If you have created an EBSCO account, you can

save articles to it.• If you have a flash memory device, you can save

articles to it.• Today, you SHOULD be able to print without

charge in the labs.

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EBSCO Account

Click here to logon or create

an account

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RESEARCH TOOLS

• Catalogs – includes printed and E-books, maps, government

documents, etc.

• Research Databases – covers periodical articles, statistics, etc.

• Web Resources

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CATALOGS - SIZEThe amount of material covered by each catalog varies. The larger the

catalog the more likely you are to locate items of use.

POLAR – 400,000 items

OhioLINK – 10 million+ items

WorldCAT – 110 million+ items

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Database Search Strategies

• Specific searches – author, title• Concept searches - subject, keyword• Limiting features – date, language, etc.• Search history – records searches and allows

you to mix and match terms

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Major Types of Searching by Concept- Keyword

• Looks in several locations (usually subject, article title, abstracts or contents)

• Does not require an exact match• Generates comparatively large number of hits

(not precise)• Good if you are not familiar with terminology

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Major Types of Searches by Concept- Subject

• Looks in one place – subject• Usually requires an exact match between your

term and a pre-set list of terms• Precise• Can be used after keyword search has

identified specific subjects

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Search Screen Conventions - POLAR

Multiple search term boxes

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Search Screens - POLAR

Set type of search. Default is keyword

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Search Screens - POLAR

Set logical relationship between terms:• And• Or• Not

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Search Screens - POLAR

Focus search by limiting

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Search Screens - OhioLINK

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Search Screens – WorldCAT.Org

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Search Screens - EBSCO

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Catalog Content

Materials commonly listed in catalogs:• Books• Maps• Music Scores• Audiovisual materials• Government documents• Increasingly links to resources on the Internet

Not newspaper and magazine articles

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Other SourcesBluffton Public Library • Can fill loan requests• Need to have a library card (parental permission required)• See: http://blufftonlibrary.oplin.org/Interlibraryloan.htm

Bluffton University• Does not fill loan requests, but materials can be used in the library

Findlay/ Hancock Co. Public Library

Macomb Public Library

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Contact Us

Use the “contact us” link on the Heterick home page or E-mail or Instant Messaging• [email protected][email protected]

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Databases

• Used mostly for locating newspaper and magazine articles

• Access controlled• Offer broad and subject-specific coverage• Available to general public via InfOhio and

OPLIN (some)

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Multi-disciplinary Databases

• Academic Search (EBSCO) available state-wide• Lexis-Nexis – licensed sites (OhioLINK)• Opposing Viewpoints – licensed sites

(individual libraries)

Available from Heterick home page

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Additional Materials

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