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Welcome to Part One of the College of Westchester
Libraries Finding Articles Tutorial.
In this three-part tutorial, you will learn how to search
for articles using the library databases.
By the end of the tutorial, you will be able to search and
articles on your own.
The first step to take is to go to the library's website at
library.cw.edu.
When you get to the website, you will see four tabs on the
top of the page.
To search in the databases, you want to use
the "Research" tab.
When you hover over the tab, a drop-down menu appears with
the options "Databases A-Z" and "Databases By Subject".
For this tutorial, we're going to focus on
"Databases by Subject".
When you click on "Databases By Subject", you will be
brought to a page that lists all different subjects.
Let's start by choosing "Business" as our subject.
When you click on "Business," you will be brought to a page
which lists all the databases that deal with business.
Next to each database is a description of the material
they cover.
Make sure you read the description before you choose
the database.
By reading the description, you will know that you're
looking in the correct place for information.
For this tutorial, I'm going to choose the database ABI
Informed Trade and Industry.
Once you select a database, you'll be prompted to enter
your CW username and password.
This is the same username and password you use
to log in to Moodle.
After you enter your username and password correctly, you
will be in ABI Informed Trade And Industry.
The name of the database appears at the top of the page
to the right of the word Proquest.
Proquest is the name of the vendor, not the database.
To start the search, you want to look for the Advanced
Search option.
The Advanced Search option is located above the search box
on the right-hand side, and below the name of the database
on the top of the page.
Before typing in your search terms, there are search
options that you should check off first.
To make sure your results are full article, you need to
check off the box for full text.
Additionally, below the full-text option, you will see
"Date Range." To get the most recent results, decrease the
date range.
You can do this by selecting automatic responses from the
menu, such as "Last One Year", or by doing
a custom date range.
Now we can type the search terms in.
I want to perform a search for "Walmart" and "customers." In
the first search box, I am going to enter "Walmart".
In the search box below, I'm going to enter "customers."
This is telling the database that I want to search for
full-text articles dealing with Walmart and their
customers that were published in the last year.
Continue on to Part Two to learn how to
narrow down your results.