Shore Regional High School
Olivadotti Information Center
NEW TEACHER
DATABASE INSTRUCTION
Steps to access databases
 Log onto the internet – Internet Explorer
 Go to www.shoreregional.org
 On the left hand side of the screen go to
“Information Center” and click.
 Then, click on On-Line Databases and E-Books
 Username: shore
 Password: Devil07
Boolean searching…
 Use words such as AND, OR and NOT to limit a
search.
 Use these Boolean operators to combine terms to
broaden or narrow a search.
 Many Internet searches will automatically use
Boolean searches
 EBSCOhost defaults to “Boolean/Phrase”
searching.
EBSCOHOST
 Your guide to current magazine and newspaper
access
 Database of newspapers and periodicals
 Updated daily
 Remote access
 Full-text
 Databases in French, German, and Spanish
 Advanced search techniques
 Boolean search
 Defaults to keyword search
EBSCOHOST SERVICES
 MasterFILE Premier
 Newspaper Source
 Business Source Elite
 ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center)
 Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
 Middle Search Plus
 EBSCO Animals
EBSCO continued…
 Primary Search
 Health Source: Nursing Academic Edition
 Health Source - Consumer Education
 Regional Business News
 TOPICsearch - current events
 Library and Information Science
 MAS Ultra - School Ed - 500 popular h.s. mag
EBSCO continued…
 Biography Collection Complete
 History Reference Center*
 Literary Reference Center*
 Science Reference Center*
 Professional Development Collection
 GreenFILE - environment
 Academic Search Premier
*useful for these subjects
Facts.com Database
 Defaults to story and title text
 World News Digest 1940-2005
 World Almanac
 World Almanac Encyclopedia
 Issues and Controversies
 Today’s Science
 Science Encyclopedia
 Information comes from Reuters News
Gale Database
Student Resource Center Gold
 Defaults to subject
search
 Accurate and
authoritative
reference content,
magazines, and
newspaper articles.
 Full-text
 Current topics
TOPICS:
 Geography
 Cultures
 History
 Multimedia
 Literature
 Person Search
 Science and Health
 Timeline
Gale Database cont…
Opposing Viewpoints
 Information on today’s hottest social issues
 Full-text
 Viewpoint articles
 Topic overviews
 Academic journal articles to newspaper articles
 Statistics
 Links to websites
Gale Database cont…
Custom Newspapers
 Defaults to keyword search
 NJ Newspapers
 NY Times (full-text from January 2000 to present)
 National and international newspapers
Gale Database cont…
Literature Resource Center
 Research authors and their works, literary
movements and genres.
 Search across several major Literature databases to
find:
 full text of literary works, journal articles,
literature criticism, reviews, and biographical
information.
 Overviews on over 130,000 writers in all
disciplines, from all time periods and from around
the world.
Gale Database cont…
Science Resource Center
 Defaults to subject search
 Thousands of curriculum-related topic overviews
 Experiments
 Biographies
 Pictures and illustrations
 The latest scientific developments
 Articles from over 200 magazines and academic journals
and links to quality web sites.
 Database offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify
content directly correlated to state and national
standards.
Gale Database cont…
Scribner Writers Series
 Writers A-Z - View a biography of an author's life
and works. (Author’s listed alphabetically)
 In-Depth Search - Design your own search, using
words or phrases, or customize a search by genre,
gender, ethnicity/nationality, time period, and
language.
 Research Ideas - View topics with a highly
selective, curriculum-related list of writers to use
as research starting points.
Gale Database cont…
LitFinder for Schools
 Covering world literature and authors throughout history
 Contains a wealth of literary works, including over
150,000 full-text poems, short stories, speeches, and
dramatic works.
 For students seeking a deeper view into literature,
LitFinder for Schools also includes biographies, work
summaries, author images and a full glossary of literary
terms.
 From Shakespeare's sonnets to the poetry of Maya
Angelou or short stories by Edgar Allan Poe to works by
Annie Proulx, LitFinder for Schools has you covered.
Grolier Online Kids
(http://go.grolier.com)
Databases:
o New Book of Knowledge
o Grolier Multimedia
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Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Americana
Lands and Peoples
New Book of Popular
Science
Dictionaries and Atlases
Some features:
o Lesson Plans and
teachers guides
o Can search the
curriculum standards
o Timelines
o Experiments
o Current events, news
ProQuest Database
 Can select interface language
 Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 -
2005)
SIRS
Knowledge Source Database
SIRS Researcher
 Defaults to subject
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search
Leading issues
Natural disasters
Terrorism
Today’s news
Maps
World Almanac
SIRS Gov’t Reporter
 Can browse topics
 Country Profiles
 Federal Agencies
 Historic Documents
 Archives
 U.S. Congress
 U.S. Presidents
 U.S. Supreme Court
WilsonWeb Database
 Defaults to advanced keyword search
 Book Review Digest Plus
 Full-text book reviews from over 8,000 sources
 OmniFile Full-text Select*
 Full-text multi-disciplinary database with information from a
variety of databases including art, science, education,
humanities, legal and business.
* Not all articles come up full-text. WilsonWeb is currently
converting all documents to full-text.
Web Feet Core Collection
(Not a search engine, but a collection of preselected websites)
 Defaults to keyword
 Can limit by grade level
 Web Feet is a comprehensive subject guide database
including such subjects as:
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Arts & Social Studies
Science & Technology
Ready Reference
 Includes New Topics as recent as this month.
JSTOR
 Defaults to advanced search in English
 Can change language
 JSTORs mission is to preserve a record of
scholarship for posterity and to advance research
and teaching.
 JSTOR has archives that include scholarship
published in over one thousand of the highestquality academic journals across the humanities,
social sciences and sciences.
Project Muse
 Defaults to a advanced article search
 Can limit by journal, discipline, and language
 Project MUSE offers full text articles in humanities
and social sciences journals.
 Project Muse is a collaboration between libraries and
publishers.
Remember…
 Most databases give you an option to either
 E-mail
 Print
 Save
 If you decide to convert an article to a word
document you can make comments/notes in the
margin. Go to insert, then comments.
 Explore the many aspects of these databases and see
which work best for curriculum area.
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Created by Patti Forsman, Library Intern, Rutgers University, September 2008