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>> Hi-- today, I'll be showing you how to search
our library databases.
You start your searching at the library home page from GRCC,
any of the pages-- you can go under
"Current Students" and "Library."
There's also a link in Blackboard,
up on the top right section of Blackboard.
There's a couple of ways to access our databases.
If you click this link, you'll get a listing
of all of our databases, and there's over 100.
I'll show you how to get to it from our subject guides,
which offers you a smaller selection of databases
to start with.
The subject guides are divided by different subjects.
I'll go into "English Composition"...
And in this page, you have a list of about 10 databases
to choose from.
Depending on your topic,
you can choose one of these to start with.
"Ferguson's" is related to career topics.
"New York Times" would be news articles.
If you're doing any kind of controversial current topic,
"Opposing Viewpoints" or "Points of View"
would be good ones.
I'll show you today "Academic OneFile."
It's a general database,
and it will have a lot of different topics available.
The databases gather many different articles.
You can see in this one, there's over 54 million.
They are updated daily, and you can find everything
from magazine, journal, newspaper articles,
as well as some videos and things like that.
First, I click in the search box.
Today, I am going to be searching for my terms
"soda and health."
You don't have to choose any of these auto-complete options.
You can just click outside of that.
I do recommend limiting your search to "Full Text."
That will only give you full text or full access
to the articles that come up in the next screen.
Clicking "Search," I get a list of results.
It automatically comes up as "Publication Date."
I'm going to switch that to "Relevance."
I think sometimes that brings up the best results first.
And you see I have a list of different articles here.
The blue title gives you the title of the article,
the green link tells you what magazine or journal
it comes from, and then the date it was published.
You also the option of looking at different types of results,
whether it's newspaper articles, magazine articles,
or those research academic journals.
I'm on the academic journals.
So you see, I'm getting things
from "American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education,"
"Diabetes Forecast."
I'm gonna click on this article that's called
"Study-- Soda may have link to diabetes."
I have the full text of the article here, which I can read,
but I also have the option to use this tool box on the right--
printing, e-mailing to myself,
downloading the article to a flash drive
or my network drive, and then the citation tools
brings up a box to create an MLA citation
by saving and hitting "Okay."
This top part here is what you need to copy and paste
into your "Works Cited" page.
You no longer need to have this URL, so you can skip that.
As a quick tip, a lot of our databases,
especially the ones that have "OneFile" in the name,
like "Academic OneFile,"
have an MLA citation also listed right there
at the end of the article.
You can save several articles at a time.
You can e-mail the articles, and you can also print them out.
That's an introduction to our library databases.
If you have other questions, please contact me.