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Guide to using some online resources: Online Databases & Electronic Books -- It's probably easiest to print this out and use the print copy to navigate through these instructions -- To get to the Cabrillo College Library online databases:
Academic Search Premier is the largest, most comprehensive of the online databases to which we subscribe. It is listed in various of the subject groups, as well as under General (top left). Click on Academic Search Premier (if you are coming in from off campus, you'll be asked for your library card number). The default is the Basic Search mode --
Search options are offered here. But you have more flexibility if you click to go to Advanced Search mode, where you can search for more than one variable at a time --
In this search, I am asking for articles that use the word costanoan and the word mission in the article title or the abstract of the article. The default search mode is Boolean/Phrase, and you usually leave it there. I am limiting the articles to those available Full Text and published in Scholarly Journals. There is a lot you can play with here. The more you limit, the fewer articles you retrieve (or none). SmartText Searching is new. It matches phrases, or sentences, or even paragraphs to texts in the database. For example, the article retrieved through the search illustrated above "describes how archaeological, documentary, and ethnographic data can be used to create a balanced and less-biased perception of life at the missions" [that language is taken from the first part of the article]. So what if I wanted to find other articles about how archaeological, documentary, and ethnographic data can be used -- I'd type that into the SmartText Searching box:
Results are sorted by relevance. SmartText Searching is somewhat experimental. Once you get a results list, you click on the article title to bring up information about it:
The PDF file is the full text article. Click to do the following Print || Email || Save || Cite || Export || or put the article in a folder. The library offers a new search called 360 Search. It is a federated search capability that allows you to search more than one database at a time.
The basic screen looks like this:
Here's a sample search having clicked to Select All, using Costanoan as a Keyword. (The default search is for words used in titles, which is a bit limiting.)
You get clustered results, and Results by Source, which may be helpful to you. You can click to limit to full text. Another resource you will want to know about is the Library's collection of electronic books from NetLibrary. We have about 18,000 titles. To get to them:
Here's a search for the word Costanoan as it might appear in any of these NetLibrary books. You can also do more sophisticated searches using the Advanced Search mode.
Hope this helps you get started! Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with. x6552 and tosmalle@cabrillo.edu tns 8/19/08
last updated 8/08
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