Thursday, December 13, 2012

Week 10 EbscoHost Family of Databases and Ebsco eBooks

I am in Masterfile Premier and yes, there is People magazine, our most popular circulating periodical.  I also took a few minutes to look at other titles and found Quality Remodel designed for the contractor and Zoo for the younger set.

Success on the zinc front, the first try "zinc in foods" yielded numerous studies from other continents as first hits in relevance, then I tried "foods that have zinc" with more appropriate and understandable selections.  Cashews were a good morning snack! 


We recently had a parent ask for material on stranger danger so I used that for search terms and got much more specific results when enclosed in double quotes. 

I cannot find relevant information on Constitution Day in Ebsco eBooks.

The Western history project initially called up over 40 results so I used the left column for refining results and clicked subject and then show more where I selected options that looked to have history content, then clicked update and the selection was narrowed to under 10.  There would likely be something there for a highschool student practicing research skills.  Topics ranged from the dust bowl to westward immigrants to Cheyenne history.

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