University Faculty Senate Operations Committee
SUNY Connect Hands-On Computer Workshop
Alfred, April 2002
Research Activities Using SUNY Connect Library
Databases
FirstSearch WorldCat
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Which one of your Senate colleagues edited a recent book on self esteem with
Timothy Owens?
What other books has this Senate colleague written?
(Example: searching for books by author and title or keyword)
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Find the book Lawful Order by Leo Carroll
(Example: search for a book by author and partial title)
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Look at Interlibrary Loan request page
NetLibrary
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Now search for the electronic full-text version of Lawful Order by Leo Carroll
InfoTrac Onefile
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Which one of our Senate colleagues wrote an article about the academic freedom in
SUNY?
(Example: keyword search)
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Find articles about Robert L. King
Now limit your search to articles published in the Chronicle of Higher
Education (Recognize one of our UFS dinners?)
(Example: keyword search limited to a specific magazine or journal)
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Find articles about academic tenure in the journal Sociological Perspectives
(Example: keyword search limited to a specific journal, full-text)
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Find articles about human cloning
Now limit your search to “refereed journal” articles. What does this do to your
results?
Pretend you’re a student and also limit to “articles with text”.
(Example: search limited to retrieve articles in refereed journals and journals
available only in full-text)
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Take a look at a recent journal of interest to you:
Information Management Journal
JAMA
Journal of Applied Psychology
Journal of College Reading and Learning
Journal of Popular Culture
Nation
Political Science Quarterly
Phi Delta Kappan
(Example: Ability to browse recent journal issues)
Switch to Advanced Search in OneFile
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Search for articles written by your colleague Randall McGuire
(Example: searching by author

Search for articles about distance education and intellectual property.
(Example: combining topics)
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Search for articles about distance education and cost
(Example: combining topics in search retrieval)
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Search for articles about general education and curriculum and evaluation
(Example: combining three topics in search retrieval)
ScienceDirect
Searching
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Find an article written by your colleague Arnold Wishnia
(Example: searching by author)
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Find articles about the use of aspirin to treat cancer patients
Limit your results to articles published after 2000
(Example: combining search topics and limiting to a specific year)

Find articles about the Anthrax vaccine
Limit your results to articles published in 2001-2002
Add another topic bioterrorism
(Example: combining search and publication year with further search
narrowing)

Select the Economics subject group of journals
Find articles about the effects of recent terrorism on tourism
(Example: search in Economic subject)

Select the Psychology subject group of journals
Find articles about sleep deprivation
Now limit it by adding the topic depression
(Example: search in Psychology subject)
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Search the Medicine subject group of journals
Final articles about human cloning and ethics
(Example: search in Medical subject)
Browsing Journals
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In the subject view bar at the top of the page select one of the Subject selections (such
as arts and humanities or chemistry)
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Click on the publications icon
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Choose a journal to display issues
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Now examine individual journal issues!