To access FirstSearch:

• select option D > Connect to other DATABASES from the OBIS menu
• select option 3 > other FirstSearch databases from the CONNECT TO: menu

Topic Area: Education
Database: ERIC
Find articles that discuss the effect of race on attrition of college students.

Topic Area: Public Affairs & Law
Database: Index to Legal Periodicals
Find articles published since 1990 that cite Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion case.

Topic Area: Arts & Humanities
Database: Arts & Humanities Search
How many times has Sandy Zagarell's article "Narrative of a Community: The Identification of a Genre" been cited? It appeared in Signs in 1988

To access UnCover:

• select option 10 > UnCover from the CONNECT TO: menu of OBIS
  
• select option 5. VT100;
  
• select option 1. UnCover--Article access & document delivery--No password required;
  
• press the enter key (at least 5 times) until you get to the Welcome screen.

Determine whether or not the journal Health Affairs is included in the service; if so, what's the date of the latest issue in the database?

Find a reference to an article that Nicholson Baker wrote that has something to do with libraries.

To access the Eureka databases:

• select from the CONNECT TO: menu of OBIS

Hispanic American Periodicals Index
I recently read The House on Mango Street.; I can't remember who wrote it but I'd like to read more of her work.

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