Boolean searching:
-AND (Georgia and education)
-OR (Zimbabwe or Rhodesia)
-NOT (Mexico not New Mexico)
To Kill a Mockingbird AND novel NOT film
Galileo Advanced:
-Databases A-Z
-All Databases
-Search “E”
-eBooks (community college, Academic Collection)
-“Electronic Theses and dissertations” (UGA dissertations only)
Set up Ebsco Database Account – will save all Ebsco articles from all Ebsco databases
Easybib:
Setup account or login through Lassiter media center page
Code: lassihsga (ignore ads)
“My Projects”
-You can specify categories for different classes
-“Create Project”
-Specify default style (MLA, APA)
Go to a database in Mackinvia, search for articles:
-Click export
-Export to Easybib
-Keeps a running list (alphabetized) of your sources in Easybib
You can also “Analyze” your sources
-Select All
-Analyze
-Gives you an analysis / overview of all of your sources
You can “Share” your bibliography through email
You can Export your bibliography to One Drive, Word, Google Docs, etc. (recommended versus copying and pasting)
** Make sure if you copy and paste to check the formatting against your style manual!!! **
Research tab at the top:
-You can see which sources have been cited heavily in research – very helpful in finding the “big voices” in your field
Notebook tab at the top:
-New Note
-You can organize your notecards digitally as well as color-code, quote, paraphrase, comment, and include identifier tags
Outline feature on right
-Create a working outline where you can drag your sources into the outline on one page
You can print all of this, too
Viewing options: 1) Visualize (more spatial organization) 2) List
Website Evaluator Function
JSTOR:
-Not quite as current, but always excellent material
-On about a 5-year rolling currency system
Can filter by a specific journal or discipline
Put key words in quotation marks – this works better in academic databases than in Google
Multiple spellings:
~ = “wild car” – lets you search for multiple versions of that same word
? = wom?n (could search woman or women, etc.)
* = will search multiple words that contain that word (behavior, behaviorist, behaviorism, etc.)
Au: author (for Boolean searching)
Ti: title
Boost relevance: debt forgiveness ~ 10 (will get debt and forgiveness within 10 words of each other)