Researching Databases


Today will be everyone's last chance to learn all they can about the databases that we have access to. I will be covering another major site today which does require a login name and user password. Be sure to pay attention and make sure to write down the information somwhere that it will not get lost.

Everyone needs to make sure that they understand how to use each fo these sites after today, because I will not be spending time explaining this again.


Primary Source- an original fundamental and authoritative document pertaining to an event or subject of inquiry; a firsthand or eyewitness account of an event

Secondary Source- any document that describes an event, person, place, or thing, usually not created contemporaneously (not created at the time of the event)

Example:
A biography is a secondary source and an autobiography is a primary source.




These specfic databases should be the most useful for this project.

Databases searchable under EBSCOhost Web:

MasterFILE Premier- (Almost 2,000 general reference articles. Over 100,000 primary source documents)

Newspaper Source (Database of various newspapers from around the country)

ERIC- (Educational magazines and journals)

MAS Ultra- (Searchable database containing hundreds of modern popular high school magazines)

Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia- (The complete Encyclopedia)

History Reference Center- (Articles from magazines and journals on thousands of historical events)

SIRS Discoverer (Searchable database on thousands of topics)

****Nettrekker: (Educational search engine approved by teachers)
Required to log on to Nettrekker
Username: Berwickhs
Password: Library


AP Multimedia Archive- (Associated Press Photos)

Contemporary Authors- (Articles/Biographies on Modern Authors)

Biography Reference Bank- (Biographies on thousands of individuals both living and deceased)


No one may use outside search engines (Lycos, Google, Dogpile, etc.) or Wikipedia. These are not reliable sources of information.


http://dianahacker.com/pdfs/Hacker-Daly-MLA.pdf

http://www.bucknell.edu/Documents/ISR/mla.pdf





Academic Content Standard:
1.8.11A- Select and refine a topic for research
1.8.11B- Locate information using appropriate sources and strategies.