Welcome to McMillen Library

March 12, 2013

“Imagine a library filled with hundreds and thousands of

magazines or journals, often dating back twenty or more years. Add to that hundreds of reference books, monographs, and primary source documents. With a single search term or phrase in the database Find field, the researcher can search the entire collection in a second or two. The results (articles) will appear on the researcher’s computer screen to be printed, emailed, saved, etc. “

“Licensed from reputable publishers, these materials offer a reliable alternative to the sometimes questionable results from general search engines.”

Online Databases

(“Digital information literacy ruberic,” 2012)

McMillen Library Webpage

Select “Online Databases” to find our online resources

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Book Resources

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Library Resources

Search issues in SIRS

Find a paper topic

SIRS

SIRS

Library Resources

Ebsco host

Materials available

Magazines Journals Newspapers Ebooks

Search Features Basic, Advanced, Visual, History Thesaurus (Subject Descriptors)

Limiters Full-Text Peer-reviewed Language Date of publication, and many others

Ebsco Host

Boolean Search: AND, NOT, OR Limiters (Narrow your results) Thesaurus Truncation, * Use of quotation marks Choose search field Save relevant materials in Folder

Database Features

Boolean Search

ANDORNOT

Narrow Search Results

Date of publication Publication name Language Full-text Peer-reviewed

Limiters

Advantages

Easy to use Describe the “aboutness” of a resource High relevance and precision Retrieve relevant sources regardless of spelling

Disadvantages The “Browse” search bar can be confusing You have to use the authorized terms in the list

Natural language may not be in the index Sometimes current phrases or topics have not yet

been added to the thesaurus

Thesaurus

Credo Inspire Mergent Online ProQuest Ebrary Culturegrams SIRS DSM-IV-TR

Other Databases

Purdue OWL Indiana Tech

LibGuide: Citing Sour

ces and Using Style Guides

Style Guide and Citations

Questions?