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Hi class! My name is Melanie Gnau
and I am going to be your librarian today!
Today we are going to be talking about how to
use the database, Literary Reference Center Plus.
So, first, let's head to that database.
We're going to go to "Current Students,"
"Libraries"
And now we're going to scroll down
to where we have "Research Databases."
So go ahead and click on "Research Databases."
Now again, you'll notice that our databases
are organized by subject
and the one that we are going to look for today
is actually under "Languages and Literature."
So I am going to click on this "Languages and Literature up here.
And it is going to jump me down right to it.
So again, we are looking for Literary Reference Center Plus.
So we're just going to click on that
And if you are off-campus, you'll notice that
you might have to put in a user name and password.
Your user name and password is the same as your Blackboard.
But I am on-campus today, so I didn't need to do that.
Now, this is the way Literary Reference Center Plus works.
We've got a book highlight here.
We've got a featured work, featured author,
but, how we want to search today
is actually an advanced search.
So, I'm going to go up here and just
go ahead and click on the advanced search link.
Now this advanced search link, you'll notice
gives me a lot of different options
that just the basic search did not give.
So, we're going to go ahead and click on this
"Full Text" and "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.
You'll notice that this is familiar if you've ever
searched through an Ebsco database before.
And that's because they all sort of have this same interface.
Now, again back to this limiting.
We're going to use the Full Text and
we're also going to use Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals to limit our search.
And for this one, we're actually going to use Literary Criticism,
as well, to limit the search.
So, we don't get a whole bunch of stuff.
But now, I also want you guys to know that
you can also scroll down and limit even further,
if you need to.
You've got Literary Title you can limit it to.
Literary Author's lifetime,
Literary Character, all kinds of limitations!
But these are just the limitations that
we're going to use today for this assignment.
Now, we already brainstormed,
we already know about boolean terms,
So, I am going to go ahead and use some of those
brainstormed words that we came up with
and the boolean terms.
So... I am going to type in Emily Dickinson
and I am also going to use for this search,
the first part of the word, Puritan.
Now, I am putting this little asterisk here,
so it will show me not only Puritan,
it will also show me Puritanism, Puritannical,
any word you could think of that starts with Purit--
Now, I'm going to go ahead and do this search.
Ok, so I only got one search... one search result,
and that's ok.
I'm looking at this and it really looks like
something that is going to be interesting to my topic.
So, I am kind of happy about this.
So, I'm going to go ahead and click on it.
And take a look at the abstract.
Ok, just doing a quick look at this abstract,
it actually looks like something that's really going to be of interest to me.
So, what I would do is click on this PDF Full Text.
And what's great about the PDF is
it shows you what the article actually looked like
when it was published in the journal.
So, you'll get page numbers,
you'll maybe get pictures, if it had some pictures incorporated
And also with this PDF Full Text, you'll be allowed to print
and you can see that over on the right.
You'll be able to email it to yourself.
You can add it to a folder.
You do have to create an account with Ebsco to
do that. But you can add it to a folder
to organize your documents online.
It will give you a citation.
It will give you the chance to export this article.
And it will also give you a permalink,
or a permanent link to this article.
Now, again I want to tell you guys about the citation.
Sometimes I use the citation,
I'm going to be honest.
If you scroll down, you'll see the MLA citation.
But you do want to be really careful
that you check this against your style manual.
Computers aren't always correct.
So, alright I was pretty happy with that one article.
But that's not enough for my paper.
So, I'm going to go back using the back button.
And back one more time.
And then, I am also going to enter something like...
religion.
Ok, so I got two other articles.
Maybe I'll also enter god.
So, I got five this time.
So, you'll notice that by using different words
that we brainstormed
we can easily find more articles that are those
full-text and scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
So, thank you guys for watching.
This has been how to search Literary Reference Center Plus.
If you have any questions feel free to email me.
Or, just talk to me in the discussion board.
Thanks! Bye!