Tuesday, December 06, 2005

HOW TO FIND ARTICLES WITH EBSCOHost

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1) Use good Keywords.
-Do background research by looking at general science texts, encyclopedias, and your text book. Ask your teacher for suggestions. Brainstorm.

2) EXPAND your search.
-Search for related words. Automatically AND seach terms.
-If you still aren't getting enough results, search within the full text of articles.

3) LIMIT your search.
-Choose only "Magazines" from your result page so as to get only those articles written for a general audience.

4) SORT your results by relevancy

5) Look at SUBJECT HEADINGS.
-Run another search using one or more subject headings by using the flag "DE". Combine subject headings with keywords for more precise searches.

A FEW GOOD SCIENCE PERIODICALS

Science News (available in the library and full text through EBSCOHost)

Chemmatters (available through the library and through the Science Dept on CD-ROM)

Discover (available in the library and full text through EBSCOHost)

Scientific American (available in the library and full text through EBSCOHost)

Popular Science (available in the library and full text through EBSCOHost)

New York Times’ Science Times (Available in the library)