Powerpoint Tutorials
- How to search the databases

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The databases below use Boolean searching.  For more information on this topic see Boolean Searching.

• America: History and Life:  Using CLIO Notes to find research topics (ABC-CLIO database)
  See how to find topics, narrow topics, find information on those topics, and identify resources from this library to use.
• CQ Researcher:  Finding research topics
  See how to find topics with more than one point of view, find background information, and sources to start a research project.
• Education Full Text:  Searching  (WilsonWeb database)
  See how to combine search phrases in an advanced search and limit a search set to full text articles only.  See how to determine which articles are available in Rod Library.
• ERIC:  Searching  (EBSCO database)
  See how to use ERIC Descriptors to help you get exactly what you want.  See truncation in action.  See how to limit your search to pull up journal articles only.
• ExpandedAcademic ASAP:  Searching & Obtaining Periodical Articles (Infotrac database)
  See how to use the subject search and the keyword search effectively.
• Family & Society Studies Worldwide:  Searching  (Biblioline database)
  See how to use the index to identify search terms and modify the search to get exactly what you need.  Learn how to find the sources you have identified.
• Ingenta:  (formerly UnCover)
  See how to do a Quick Search and an Advanced Search and ways to narrow a topic.
• MLA International Bibliography: Keyword and Subject Searching  (EBSCO database).
  See a search for information on a title and information on an author.  See ways to narrow a search set.