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Using Ebsco Student Resource Center

Module by: Darla Grediagin

Summary: Students will learn how to download newpaper and magazine articles, transcripts from TV shows, maps, and books on various topics.

Opening Two Tabs

During this tutorial, you will need to open a second tab in your browser. You can do this two ways. The first, is to go to the file menu and choose, "new tab". The second is to hit the open apple key and 'T'.

Back in the Olden Days

Figure 1: Reader's Guide to Periodicals
Reader's Guide to Periodicals
Reader's Guide to Periodicals (readersguidetoperiodicals.jpg)

When I was in school, if I needed a magazine article I would go to this book. I would look up the subject. It would then list the different articles that people had written on that topic. I would write down the information that I needed, magazine title, issue #, article title, and the author.

This was great, I knew my topic and I had knew which magazines I needed to look at to find the information. I would then go to the librarian and ask where these magazines were.

Figure 2: Look at all the magazines.
Magazine Rack
Magazine Rack (Magazine_Rack.jpg)

Often the answer was that we didn’t subscribe to the magazine. That was the end of the story. It didn’t matter that I had done the work that I did, I still didn’t have any resources to use. This is the way it was for research until 1999. That was the year that the Alaska Legislature gave University of Alaska enough money to rent the Alaska Databases.

Take a moment and think of something that you would like to learn about. It can be something from your class or anything that you are interested in. Write that on a note that you can attach to your computer.

How do I find articles?

Now we know why we use magazine articles. The next step is to know how to find the articles. For this part you should be on the Databases for Alaskans Website. The link is on the side of the tutorial window.

On this page first scroll down until you get to the 'K-12' section. Choose "Student Research Center" button. It is the first green button that says Ebsco.

What are some of the types of references here?

Information can come in a lot of different ways. You will be able to choose which format you want to see your information in. We will search for Alaska resources.

Type ‘Alaska” in the search box. How many results did you get? Is this too many? Why/Why not?

Why is there a problem if you have too many results?

Narrow our search

There are a lot of ways to narrow our search. The easiest choice is to look at the column on the left hand of the screen. Ebsco has provided some terms that will narrow our search. If there is a subject in the list that is closer to what you were looking for, click on that now.

Did you find some articles that you can use for your research? If so, you need to do something really important before you print them out.

  1. Check the date of the article. Is it recent enough?
  2. Check the magazine.
  3. Click the print button on the screen. This will make the article be just black and white which will save you monty.

Let's finish up

  1. Print your article.
  2. Write your name on the top.
  3. Show the article to your teacher.

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