FACULTY WORKSHOP ON INFORMATION LITERACY
SESSION 5: ELECTRONIC DATABASES
JANUARY 17, 1997

LAB EXERCISES FOR CD ROM DATABASES

MLA International Bibliography

David Walker of Oberlin has written several articles on poetry in the 1980's. Could you help me find them?

(clue: at the "find" command, type david walker in au and oberlin and poetry)

PsycLIT

Please help me find out what James Tanaka has written on the topic of "face recognition".

(clue: Log into the Journal Article database. Use the Thesaurus to find out if "face recognition" is correct, and then select and search the correct term to do a subject search. Then at the "find" command, type and james tanaka in au.

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature

I have read an article on "ozone in Mexico City" in the Science magazine, but don't remember the exact date. How can I find that out?

(clue: at the "find" command, type ozone and Mexico city. Then again at the "find" command, type #4 and science in so.

Historical Abstracts and Religion Index

Please do a subject/keyword search on "Buddhism and Korea," and compare the results retrieved from the two databases.

(clue: esp. compare the sources in which the articles are published in the two databases)

Choose a database and do a search of your own.


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