Task #1: Select databases by subject category

Use Test Prototype, set to aAdvanced Search. Default set to subject categories.

1. Type in this search:

2. Select and search other databases relevant to this topic.

¨  Used DROP DOWN MENU and selected

¨  General/News

¨  Arts/Architecture

¨  Business/Economics

¨  Computer Science/Engineering

¨  Earth/Environment

¨  Education

¨  Gender/Sexuality

¨  Health Sciences

¨  History

¨  Law/Political Science

¨  Life Sciences

¨  Literature

¨  Philosophy/Religion

¨  Psychology/Sociology

¨  Ebsco Animals

¨  Funk & Wagnalls

¨  Used CHOOSE DATABASES tab and selected

¨  General/News

¨  Arts/Architecture

¨  Business/Economics

¨  Computer Science/Engineering

¨  Earth/Environment

¨  Education

¨  Gender/Sexuality

¨  Health Sciences

¨  History

¨  Law/Political Science

¨  Life Sciences

¨  Literature

¨  Philosophy/Religion

¨  Psychology/Sociology

¨  Ebsco Animals

¨  Funk & Wagnalls

¨  Couldn’t find a way to change databases

¨  Other ______


Task #2: Select databases by database name

1. Use Academic Search Premiere, advanced search. Type in this search:

2. Select and search other databases relevant to this topic.

ð Used DROP DOWN MENU and selected

¨  Academic Search

¨  Agricola

¨  AltHealth Watch

¨  Business Source

¨  CINAHL

¨  Computer Source

¨  Ebsco Animals

¨  EconLit

¨  Educ. Research

¨  ERIC

¨  Fuente Academica

¨  Funk & Wagnalls

¨  GeoRef

¨  Health Source - Consumer

¨  Health Source - Nursing

¨  Inspec

¨  Legal Collection

¨  MAS-Ultra- School

¨  MasterFile

¨  MedicLatina

¨  Medline

¨  Middle Search

¨  Military & Gov.

¨  MLA Directory Per.

¨  MLA Int'l Bib

¨  Newspaper Source

¨  Pre-CINAHL

¨  Primary Search

¨  Professional Dev

¨  Psychology & Behav.

¨  PsycInfo

¨  Regional Business

¨  Religion & Phil

¨  TOPIC search

¨  Vocational & Career

ð Used CHOOSE DATABASES tab and selected

¨  Academic Search

¨  Agricola

¨  AltHealth Watch

¨  Business Source

¨  CINAHL

¨  Computer Source

¨  Ebsco Animals

¨  EconLit

¨  Educ. Research

¨  ERIC

¨  Fuente Academica

¨  Funk & Wagnalls

¨  GeoRef

¨  Health Source - Consumer

¨  Health Source - Nursing

¨  Inspec

¨  Legal Collection

¨  MAS-Ultra- School

¨  MasterFile

¨  MedicLatina

¨  Medline

¨  Middle Search

¨  Military & Gov.

¨  MLA Directory Per.

¨  MLA Int'l Bib

¨  Newspaper Source

¨  Pre-CINAHL

¨  Primary Search

¨  Professional Dev

¨  Psychology & Behav.

¨  PsycInfo

¨  Regional Business

¨  Religion & Phil

¨  TOPIC search

¨  Vocational & Career

¨  Couldn’t find a way to change databases

¨  Other ______

Task #3: Order of search results

Use Current Academic Search Premier, set to Advanced Search. Sort order: date.

1. How would you expect the database to order the results?

ð author ð date ð relevance ð title

ð other ______

2. Type in this search

3. Describe how the database orders the results/

4. Can you change the way the results are sorted?

ð Found sort immediately

ð Found sort quickly

ð Found sort after looking around for awhile

ð Never found sort

ð Other ______

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