Lesson 6 Ebooks on EbscoHost (formerly NetLibrary)


Basic Discovery Exercise:

#1

Did my first search as Forensics with 32 results.  The first two titles seem like they are very relevant, DNA Technology and AIDS, Drugs and Prevention.  The third title made me smile, it was Greenland Mummies and is a juvenile literature title.  This let me know that I probably need to do some limiting so I went to the Subject sections and opened the "show more" box and selected forensic anthropology and infrared spectroscopy, thus limiting my search to two articles.  Still got the Greenland Mummies but added the Practcile guide to infrared microspectroscopy.  Went back to the 32 results and selected the Category area to limit this time.  I selected medical/forensic medicine and medical/public health.  That got me five results, all of which are more suited to college students.  It also included the two books I first saw that looked promising.

Knowing that your download didn't work I went ahead a clicked on the download button and got the notice to  sign into My EBSCOhost account to check availability and download.  Now I at least know what to tell students to expect when trying to download the book.  Clicking on the ebook full text pulled up the book and provided an easy to use navigation system.  I normally tell students to look for a table of contents and/or an index, both of which were available in DNA Technology in Forensic Science.


#2

Searched for constitution day and got no results.  Researched using just constitution and got 174 results.  Noticed that one of the subjects was constitutional history and decided to use that to limit to a reasonable number of articles for this exercise (3).  There is one false drop, it talks of the constitution of Japan but the other two results would work well for someone who wants information for the Constitution Day events.

#3

For my publisher I selected "Nebraska <or> Oklahoma and got back 169 results.  Since Oklahoma was dominating the results when looking in relevance order I switched to Title order just to see what all was available.  University of Oklahoma has a lot of titles but then there is some U.S. Census stuff, University Press of Colorado and University of Nebraska Press are also represented.  Interesting way to search and you get a wide variety of topics from black Elk to Bipolar Disorder!  It might get someone thinking outside the "box" for topics they might not have tried with a subject like western history.


Advanced Challenge

#1  Decided to do my visual search on mining and got 123 results.  Most results are on data mining which wasn't what I was thinking of but will do as a great example of why being specific matter when searching.  Do have to say it isn't my favorite way to navigate but is someone is having trouble with traditional searching I'd be more than happy to show this to them.

#2

Search fairy tales then limited to fairy tales.  Found the following:
All by Andrew Lang
The Violet Fairy Book co-author  Ford, H.J.
The Blue Fairy Book
The Yellow Fairy Book
The Red Fairy Book